Atlanta, Ga., USA - October 14, 2015, Atlanta, Ga., USA - Numerex Corp, an IT company, appoints Shu Gan as CMO and Vin Costello as chief revenue officer in newly created executive management positions.
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Mr. Shu and Mr. Vin both served with Numerex CEO Marc Zionts on prior executive teams at Aicent and Allot Communications.
With more than 25 years of management experience in the high-tech and wireless industries, Mr. Gan will be responsible for product management, strategic market development and marketing for Numerex. He most recently served as corporate VP and GM of Strategic Solutions at Syniverse.
Prior to Syniverse, he served as EVP at Aicent, a mobile data interconnection services company, where he led multiple functions spanning product management, marketing, strategic BD, and global sales. Mr. Shu has also held executive positions for Danghong Technologies and FutureDial, both pioneering software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers.
He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from Peking University, a master's degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech, and an MBA from University of California at Berkeley.
Mr. Costello will oversee sales strategy, business development and revenue generation for Numerex. Previously, Mr. Costello served as President and VP of Sales of the Americas for Allot Communications, a provider of mobile, fixed and enterprise network solutions for service providers, carriers and enterprise.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Costello held numerous positions of increasing responsibility at NYNEX, where he founded and led the NYNEX Network Integration business unit. Upon the merger with Bell Atlantic, he was named President and CEO of Bell Atlantic Network Integration (BANI), eventually becoming part of Verizon Communications.
After serving as Corporate Vice President of Global Sales, he helped lead an optical networking start-up Corvis Corporation, where he served as VP of Sales and assisted in achieving an initial public offering.
He was subsequently named VP and General Manager of the Managed Storage Division of Broadwing after the Corvis acquisition. ■