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TIA Welcomes Five New Members to Its Board of Directors
Representatives from Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, OneChip Photonics, Walker & Associates and Wirefree join board overseeing association that advocates for broadband equipment manufacturers
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), which represents the manufacturers of broadband equipment, products and services for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry, announced that it has elected five new members to its Board of Directors.
The new board members are:
Allison Cerra, Chief Marketing Officer, Americas Region, for Alcatel-Lucent
Jim Hjartarson, CEO of OneChip Photonics
Anil Kripalani, President of WirefreeCom
Mike Pellon, Vice President, Standards and Commercialization for Motorola
Mark Walker, President of Walker & Associates
"On behalf of TIA, I wish to thank each new board member for agreeing to serve the ICT industry in this capacity," said TIA President Grant Seiffert. "Each has long been engaged in working with TIA to promote the growth and wellbeing of our industry and has individually expressed a personal commitment to work diligently to help carve a path to prosperity in this time of regulatory and economic uncertainty."
The new board members will bring new perspective to an already rich and diverse body that includes senior-level executives from ADTRAN, Alcatel-Lucent, ANDA Networks, AttivaCorp, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Inc., GENBAND, Inc., Henkels & McCoy, ILS Technology, Intel, Intersect., LGE, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, OneChip Photonics, Openwave, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Powerwave Technologies, Qualcomm, Research In Motion, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Corporation, Tellabs, Tyco Electronics, Ulticom, Walker & Associates and WirefreeCom.