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News Release from: Continuum Photonics
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 February 2004
Braunstein brings experience to bear
Continuum Photonics has appointed Barry Braunstein as its Vice President of Sales.
Continuum Photonics has appointed Barry Braunstein as its Vice President of Sales Braunstein brings more than 25 years of sales, sales management, and marketing management experience for both startups and Fortune 500 companies to Continuum
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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As Vice President of Sales, Braunstein will be responsible for all aspects of global sales and support for Continuum.
"We're very excited about Barry joining the Continuum team - he combines the best of entrepreneurial savvy, with the sales and management skills gained from scaling high-growth technology businesses.
His ongoing relationships with tier one customers match Continuum's objectives extremely well", said Jeffrey Farmer, Continuum's Chief Executive Officer.
"He rounds out a world-class management team, and will be responsible for building a sales and customer service organization to enable Continuum to become the number one supplier of optical switch products in the world".
"Continuum's unique technology and seasoned team has developed compelling, cost-effective products that can significantly change the economics of optical system and subsystem manufacturing, test, and network operation", said Braunstein.
"I am very excited to be joining the Continuum team to help bring these products to our customers".
Prior to joining Continuum, Braunstein was Director of North America Sales for Ikos Systems, where he lead a team selling in-circuit emulation and simulation acceleration products to design, verification, and test organizations at companies such as Lucent, Nortel, Alcatel and Intel.
During his five-year tenure, Ikos went from start-up to become the leading in-circuit emulation supplier in the USA with over $50 million in annual revenue.
Earlier in his career, Braunstein worked for a number of startup companies in areas such as speech recognition, optical character recognition, and electronic design automation software.
He has also held sales, sales management, and marketing management positions at Tektronix, Digital Equipment Corp, and Intel Corp, where he consistently exceeded sales goals both as an individual contributor and as a manager.
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