Westford, Mass., USA - February 9, 2010, Westford, Mass., USA - Sonus Networks, an IT company, announced that Guru Pai has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer, and Wayne Pastore as interim chief financial officer, effective immediately.
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Mr. Pai joined Sonus in December 2008 as Senior Vice President and General Manager. Mr. Pai has more than 20 years experience in the telecom industry, having held senior business development and product management positions at Motorola and senior sales and marketing positions at Lucent Technologies.
Mr. Pai joined Sonus from Veveo where he was vice president, marketing and business development, responsible for building strategic partnerships for business growth. Prior to joining Veveo, Pai was vice president of the Core Networks division for Motorola where he was responsible for product strategy. Mr. Pai joined Motorola in April 2003 through its acquisition of Winphoria Networks, Inc., where he was vice president of business development, product management and marketing.
Prior to joining Winphoria Networks, Mr. Pai was a sales vice president at Lucent for emerging markets and held product management positions focused on wireless and wireline service providers. Prior to Lucent, Mr. Pai held various positions in systems engineering and technical planning for the optical, switching, and wireless divisions of AT&T and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Mr. Pai holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in electrical engineering (MSEE) from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, having earned his BSEE at Kamatak University in India.
Mr. Pastore has been the Company's Vice President, Finance, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer since May 2008, and was the Company's Director, Business Process Improvement from February 2008 to May 2008. Prior to joining Sonus, Mr. Pastore was Director of Financial Planning and Analysis of Sycamore Networks, Inc., an optical switching company. ■