Sierra Wireless Announces Changes to Executive Leadership Team and Cost Synergy Initiatives

Friday, May 15, 2009 8:54 AM

VANCOUVER, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR - TSX: SW), a leading provider of wireless solutions for mobile computing and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, announced changes to the Sierra Wireless executive leadership team as well as certain cost reduction initiatives related to the integration of Wavecom with Sierra Wireless.

    Changes to the executive leadership team are as follows:
        Didier Dutronc, previously Chief Sales Officer at Wavecom, has been
        appointed Senior Vice President, Marketing and will be responsible
        for all marketing and product management activities globally for the
        combined company.
        Philippe Guillemette, formerly Group Vice President of Marketing and
        Chief Technology Officer at Wavecom, becomes Senior Vice President,
        Advanced Technology. Philippe will drive advanced technology
        initiatives and long range product/solution strategy for Sierra
        Wireless.
        Pierre Teyssier, formerly Chief Operating Officer at Wavecom, becomes
        Senior Vice President, Engineering with overall responsibility for
        global engineering and product development activities for the
        combined company.
        Emmanuel Walckenaer continues in his current role as CEO of Anyware
        Technologies and is appointed Senior Vice President & General
        Manager, Solutions and Services. His focus will be on rapidly growing
        the solutions and services business of the combined company.

Didier, Philippe, Pierre and Emmanuel join the existing members of the executive leadership team: Jason Cohenour - President and Chief Executive Officer; Bill Dodson - Senior Vice President, Operations; Dan Schieler - Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales; David McLennan - Chief Financial Officer; Jim Kirkpatrick - Chief Technology Officer and Andrew Berman - Senior Vice President & General Manager, Mobile and M2M.

Commensurate with these appointments, Anders Franzen, CEO of Wavecom's US subsidiary and Steve Blaine, Senior Vice President, Engineering at Sierra Wireless will both be leaving the company in September. Additionally, Herbert Scheitler, Vice President, Automotive at Wavecom is leaving the company effective immediately.

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