PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ipanema Technologies, the industry leader in application performance solutions over the WAN for business efficiency, continues to strengthen its management team to address growth opportunities worldwide, adding Jerome Soistier as Vice President of Sales Operations and promoting three executives to new senior management positions in the Company -- Francois Lecerf as CTO and co-founder, Alain Dupont as Vice President of Technical Operations, and Beatrice Piquer-Durand as Vice President of Marketing.
One of the Company’s founders and previously Ipanema’s VP of Engineering, Lecerf brings more than 20 years’ experience in the design of telecommunications products to his new role as CTO. Prior to Ipanema, Lecerf was co-founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Synaptel until its acquisition by Interphase Corporation.
Dupont will expand on his earlier roles overseeing software integration and technical support in his new position as VP of Technical Operations. He previously served as Director of Customer Care. Prior to joining Ipanema, Dupont led integration teams for large governmental projects at Cap Gemini, Thales and CS Telecom.
Piquer-Durand, who was most recently Ipanema’s Director of Corporate Marketing, brings more than 18 years’ experience to her new role as VP of Marketing. Piquer-Durand previously held senior marketing positions for Thomson Multimedia (Technicolor), Catalliances (Prodware) and Interface Data.
As Ipanema’s VP of Sales Operations, Soistier is responsible for supporting the sales organization worldwide. Over the past 15 years, he has held a variety of management positions in the IT, telecommunications and utilities industries. He worked in marketing and sales at Ingram Micro -- in the U.S. and France -- and at Alcatel he was VP for Operations and VP of Sales for Western Europe.
“Ipanema sees a growing demand for guaranteed application performance across global enterprise networks, and we’re moving aggressively to address this opportunity with these senior management appointments. The explosion of data combined with the rapid expansion of cloud computing, Unified Communications and hybrid networks is shifting application delivery requirements toward more visibility, control and application SLAs. Ipanema empowers enterprise’ networks with the intelligence and automation necessary to guarantee that each user of business critical applications gets the performance they require, anytime.” said Jean-Yves Leclerc, CEO, Ipanema Technologies. “Jerome, Francois, Alain and Beatrice will be key to support Ipanema’s leadership worldwide as we continue to offer unmatched business-driven application performance solutions for large accounts and for SMBs through our as a service offer AppsWork.”
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