VeriWave appoints Eran Karoly as Vice President of Marketing to lead product expansion and industry awareness
PORTLAND, ORE. — October 20, 2004 — VeriWave, Inc., the leading provider of performance analysis tools for wireless local area network (WLAN) devices and networks, today announced that it has hired Eran Karoly as Vice President of Marketing. Mr. Karoly will focus on expanding VeriWave’s brand of performance and conformance analysis tools to respond to the urgent testing needs of the Wireless LAN community.
Mr. Karoly brings with him over 17 years of engineering, product management and marketing experience in the network test industry. Most recently he served as Vice President of Marketing for Ixia, where he built the product management, marketing, and support teams and was responsible for all marketing and branding activities. He also held key marketing positions at Spirent Communications and ECI Telecom.
“We are thrilled to have Eran Karoly join our team. Eran brings with him tremendous experience in the network test industry,” said Chris DeMonico, Chief Executive Officer, VeriWave. “Eran’s track record and experience will provide VeriWave with the marketing prowess to accelerate our position as the leader in WLAN performance and conformance analysis tools.”
“Every communications technology has a test vendor that emerges as the leader for performance and conformance analysis,” states Karoly, “VeriWave’s expansive set of solutions, positions it as the leader in the wireless LAN arena.”
In May of this year, another test industry veteran, Rob Johnson, formerly with Spirent, joined VeriWave as the VP of Sales.
About VeriWave
VeriWave was formed to address the need for reliable performance testing for wireless local area networks. VeriWave’s WaveTest products are built specifically for wireless performance and verification testing offering a high degree of data and timing accuracy, and a complete and flexible wireless test solution. VeriWave is based in Portland, Oregon and is backed by major venture capital companies. For more information about VeriWave go to www.veriwave.com or call (503) 473-8350.
