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XipLink Appoints Leading Industry Executive Bruce Bednarski
Senior VP of Business Development
December 7, 2009 (Montreal, Canada) – Today XipLink, the technology leader in wireless optimization, announced that Bruce Bednarski has joined the company as senior vice president of business development. In this key role, Mr. Bednarski will be responsible for developing strategic global relationships in order to expand XipLink’s overall market opportunity and corporate development. Mr. Bednarski brings more than 20 years of diverse telecommunications and networking experience to the position and has a proven history of bringing together innovation, creativity and execution to achieve breakthrough results.
“Bruce will play a key senior management role, helping XipLink meet its aggressive growth strategy and will be instrumental in shaping our future during an evolutionary growth period for the company. He combines a comprehensive career in both the equipment and services aspects of the industry with exceptional contacts and a proven track record of success,” said Jack Waters, CEO of XipLink. “Having worked together as peers in the past through a very successful period with iDirect Technologies, as well as in earlier high-growth related industry partnerships, I am very familiar with the value that Bruce brings to an organization. XipLink is fortunate to have acquired a proven industry professional and we are all excited to have him join the XipLink team.”
Mr. Bednarski began his career as a systems engineer for Nortel Communications (formerly Northern Telecom), where he designed and installed both Central Office-class switching platforms. Mr. Bednarski next served as a member of the systems design team for the United States Senate, where he managed the Senate’s complex telecommunications infrastructure. He further developed his technical expertise at Verizon (formerly Bell Atlantic) as a member of the marketing technical support group, where he supported cutting-edge network and fast packet data services for Verizon’s largest clients. He continued his career by becoming one of the four founding partners of Net2000 Communications. Net2000 grew from a small private company to a public company (NASDAQ – NTKK) with more than 1,000 employees and a market capitalization of more than $1.6 billion at its initial public offering in March 2000. Mr. Bednarski worked intimately in many facets of building the business into a full facilities-based competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) with a customer base of 3,000 clients and annual revenues of $150 million. Following his role at Net2000, Mr. Bednarski joined iDirect Technologies in April 2002 in a board-led effort to restructure the executive management team. Through successfully redrafting and executing a new business plan, iDirect was propelled from a minor position in the VSAT router industry to a leadership role within a very short time. During this period, iDirect grew revenues from a 2001 level of $1.5 million to more than $125 million in 2006 with industry leading gross margin and net income percentage. Mr. Bednarski holds a B.A. in business administration and an M.B.A. from the University of New Haven (Connecticut). He trained with the United States Olympic Soccer Team in 1978 and received professional status when chosen in the 1982 Major Indoor Soccer League draft.
About XipLink, Inc.XipLink is the technology leader in wireless optimization using standards based SCPS protocol acceleration, streaming data compression and Internet optimizations to deliver the maximum capacity over stressed wireless communication links. XipLink is a privately owned company with Headquarters in Montreal, Quebec and Sales and Marketing offices in Washington, DC.
