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Egenera Appoints Al Lanzetta Senior Vice President of Operations and Worldwide Services
| Source: Egenera
MARLBORO, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 16, 2007 -- Egenera Inc., a global leader in datacenter
virtualization, today announced the appointment of Al Lanzetta to senior
vice president of Operations and Worldwide Services. With more than 30
years' experience in operations, finance, manufacturing and customer
service, Mr. Lanzetta has an outstanding record of improving efficiency,
increasing productivity and customer satisfaction, and of operational
excellence. A senior executive with Egenera for over four years, Mr.
Lanzetta formerly served as Egenera's vice president of Worldwide
Enterprise Services.
Prior to joining Egenera, Mr. Lanzetta served as vice president of Global
Field Operations and Field Support for EMC Global Services, where he guided
a worldwide staff of 3,000 professionals responsible for customer service
field operations, field support, logistics and contracts administration.
Previously, he was vice president of Global Customer Service for the Data
General division of EMC, directing the worldwide activities of a $250
million profit center and exceeding targets for customer satisfaction and
revenue. Earlier, Mr. Lanzetta was vice president of the Manufacturing
Services division and Repairiion unit for Data General Corporation.
Throughout his career at Data General, he also held positions ranging from
Corporate Manufacturing controller to director of Manufacturing Services.
"Al's leadership has been a key factor in our success over the last four
years," said Mike Thompson, president and CEO of Egenera. "Going forward,
his role is expanding so that we can further leverage his impressive range
of skills and experience as we continue to scale the business rapidly."
Mr. Lanzetta served three years in the United States Marine Corps and
earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Clark
University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Babson
College.
About Egenera Inc.
Egenera is a global leader in delivering enterprise computing solutions
that simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure. The Egenera
BladeFrame system simplifies the datacenter with an innovative server
architecture specifically designed to reduce complexity and enable IT to
respond rapidly to business requirements. Market-leading enterprises around
the world trust the Egenera BladeFrame system to run their most important
business applications and achieve higher resource utilization, faster
application time to market and lower total cost of ownership. Headquartered
in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices worldwide. For more information
visit www.egenera.com, call 508-858-2600 or send email to info@egenera.com.
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