CalAmp Announces Additions to Senior Management Team
August 05 2008 - 4:27PM
Business Wire
CalAmp Corp. (Nasdaq: CAMP), a leading provider of wireless
products, services and solutions, today announced the appointments
of Neil Friedlander as the Company�s new Vice President of
Operations, and Gary Sonnier as the new Vice President and General
Manager of CalAmp�s Public Safety Mobile (PSM) business. Messrs.
Friedlander and Sonnier will report to CalAmp�s Chief Operating
Officer, Michael Burdiek. In his new role as Vice President of
Operations, Mr. Friedlander will be based at CalAmp�s principal
operating facility in Oxnard, California, and have responsibility
for the Company�s manufacturing operations on a global basis. Mr.
Friedlander assumes this position from Robert Hannah, who held the
position on an interim basis after having recently been appointed
Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Company�s
Satellite Products business unit. As Vice President and General
Manager of CalAmp�s PSM business, Mr. Sonnier will oversee the
Company�s facilities in Montreal and Atlanta and will have overall
responsibilities for managing and expanding this business unit. Mr.
Sonnier assumes the position from Gilles Bazinet, who has held the
role since earlier this year on an interim basis. �I am very
pleased to announce the appointments of Neil Friedlander and Gary
Sonnier as key members of our senior leadership team,� commented
Michael Burdiek, CalAmp�s Chief Operating Officer. �Both Neil and
Gary are excellent leaders and are technically astute. They both
have strong track-records in helping to enhance operational
efficiencies resulting in improved financial performance of
high-technology companies. Most importantly, Neil and Gary bring
strong financial discipline to their positions and will have key
roles in helping to achieve our top priority of returning CalAmp to
profitability. I look forward to working with Neil and Gary as we
execute on our initiatives to achieve long-term profitable growth
for CalAmp.� Mr. Friedlander has 25 years experience in
manufacturing operations, most recently with the industrial
conglomerate Danaher Corporation, where he was Vice President of
Operations for Motion Control Systems. Prior to this, Mr.
Friedlander held the position of Director of Operations with
Flextronics International. Earlier in his career, he held various
manufacturing engineering and operations management positions in
the aerospace and computer industries with companies such as Loral,
AST Research and Hughes Electronics. Neil holds a Bachelor of
Science Degree in Industrial Engineering from California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona and an MBA from the University of
California, Irvine. Prior to joining CalAmp, Mr. Sonnier was Vice
President of Product Management for EarthLink and was responsible
for managing that company�s Internet Service Provider business
supporting five million customers. Prior to EarthLink, Mr. Sonnier
held senior management positions at Motorola, Philips, AT&T,
Lucent, Bell Laboratories, and several technology startups in the
wireless and Internet industries. He holds an MSEE from Stanford
and an MBA from the University of Denver. About CalAmp Corp. CalAmp
provides wireless communications solutions that enable
anytime/anywhere access to critical data and content. The Company
serves customers in the public safety, industrial monitoring and
controls, mobile resource management, public utilities and direct
broadcast satellite markets. The Company�s products are marketed
under the CalAmp, Dataradio, SmartLink, Aercept, LandCell and Omega
trade names. For additional information, please visit
www.calamp.com. Forward-Looking Statements Statements in this press
release that are not historical in nature are forward-looking
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Actual results could differ materially from those implied by such
forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes the
expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based
upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its
expectations will be attained. The Company undertakes no obligation
to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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