3Com underlined its desire to boost its presence in China with the appointment of Robert Mao as its new CEO last night.
The former 3Com EVP for corporate development, who replaces the departing Edgar Masri, is fluent in Mandarin, and 3Com has also taken the bold move of basing its new CEO in China.
The vendor also named former Tropos CEO Ronald Sege as its new COO yesterday as part of a long-term plan to boost its global presence.
Bob brings the company a set of skills that are uniquely fitted to 3Coms current business needs, said Eric Benhamou, chairman of the 3Com board, in a statement. Having him based out of China and having an experienced leader of Bobs caliber based in the United States will allow us to speed execution of our global business plan.
Storage sales in Asia were amongst the highlights of 3Coms recent Q3 results, boosted by a 10 percent year-over-year revenue hike in China and strong performance from 3Com's Hong Kong-based H3C subsidiary.
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