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Global Crossing Names New Leaders to North American Enterprise Sales Team
Sales leadership focuses on "invest and grow" strategy.
Florham Park, NJ - August 16, 2005 -- Bolstering its long-term strategy to serve global enterprises with converged IP services, Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) today announced the growth of its North America enterprise sales force to better serve these essential customers. The company appointed three new leaders with a proven focus on building and expanding customer relationships:
- Neil Barua, global vice president, collaboration services, has taken on the additional responsibility of regional vice president for the eastern region.
- Mike Toplisek, formerly area vice president for the southeast, has been named regional vice president of the newly formed central region.
- Alan Rosenberg, global vice president of partnership development, has joined the enterprise sales organization.
- Mike Cromwell, regional vice president, continues to lead the western region.
As head of Global Crossing's collaboration team since September 2003, Mr. Barua and his team have provided services to customers such as BorgWarner and Sun Microsystems. Mr. Barua will now offer multinational corporations in the eastern region of the United States with the full suite of Global Crossing's converged IP services.
Mr. Toplisek has led Global Crossing's Atlanta sales office since 1997, delivering advanced solutions to companies including ASG and Delta Air Lines. Mr. Toplisek's newly expanded territory encompasses the cities of Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Minneapolis.
Mr. Rosenberg has run Global Crossing's systems integrator program since 2004, developing and strengthening relationships with systems integrators around the world including Lockheed Martin and CSC. Mr. Rosenberg also leads Global Crossing's U.S. government channel, developing the company's federal presence through direct and indirect sales.
Mr. Cromwell continues to oversee the western region, serving Dallas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. Under Mr. Cromwell's leadership, the region is serving multinational customers including Panavision and Siebel Systems.
"We're fortunate to have executives of this caliber, who along with their teams share a deep commitment to serving our customers," said Paul O'Brien, Global Crossing's executive vice president, global enterprise and collaboration services. "This organization's hard work and dedication are the cornerstone of our growth strategy."
Global Crossing supports global enterprises' adoption of converged communications with a fully interoperable suite of services that leverages the company's unique global footprint. Coupled with a customized transition path to an all-IP environment, the robust set of services delivers flexibility, reliability, security, scalability and a lower total cost of ownership. The company backs its global converged offer with 24x7 worldwide support and a proactive commitment to customer satisfaction.
ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING
Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects more than 300 cities and 30 countries worldwide, and delivers services to more than 500 major cities, 50 countries and 6 continents around the globe. The company's global sales and support model matches the network footprint and, like the network, delivers a consistent customer experience worldwide.
Global Crossing IP services are global in scale, linking the world's enterprises, governments and carriers with customers, employees and partners worldwide in a secure environment that is ideally suited for IP-based business applications, allowing e-commerce to thrive. The company offers a full range of managed data and voice products including Global Crossing IP VPN Service, Global Crossing Managed Services and Global Crossing VoIP services, to more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs.
Please visit www.globalcrossing.com for more information about Global Crossing.
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CONTACT GLOBAL CROSSING:
Press Contact
Catherine Berthier
+ 1 646 256 8502
PR@globalcrossing.com
Analysts/Investors Contact
Laurinda Pang
+ 1 800 836 0342
glbc@globalcrossing.com
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