People: Patriot Energy Corp (PGYC.PK)

Mr. Tony Bisante has been appointed as President, Chief Executive Officer of Patriot Energy Corporation. Mr. Bisante is a technology industry veteran with seventeen years of proven success while working for companies such as VisionIP, Research in Motion, and IBM. His experience includes, telecommunications, sales, management, territory development, strategic planning, and account management. Mr. Bisante joins the Company from VisionIP Inc., where he held the position of Vice-President of Strategic Business Development. Mr. Bisante identified new customers and created new partnerships within the industry. He was responsible for several joint ventures with companies such as 3Men@Work, Voysis, Allstream, and Multinet. In addition, Mr. Bisante participated in signing agreements with companies such as Cisco, IBM, Riverbed, Hewlett-Packard, Radware, and Lenovo. While working for Research in Motion as Eastern Canadian/US Channel, Territory Manager, Mr. Bisante negotiated partnerships for the Eastern region. Furthermore, Mr. Bisante was one of the original sector representatives for Research in Motion in the Province of Quebec and was responsible for creating the demand and market awareness for the Blackberry product in the region of Eastern Canada. Previous to Research in Motion, Mr. Bisante was a top corporate representative for IBM Canada responsible for the sale of fully integrated solutions in telecommunications, including LANs, WANs, and wireless products. During Mr. Bisante's tenure at IBM Canada, he successfully identified and captured such prominent accounts as Wyeth Ayerst, Quebecor, Videotron, and Concordia University among others, translating to revenues of more than 30 million dollars for IBM Canada.