Nair & Co., a global integrated solutions provider helping companies expand internationally, on Tuesday announced a new corporate team to manage the company’s rapidly expanding client portfolio and package of services. Co-founder Dr. ... read more

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, today announced two new appointments to strengthen the leadership team for its Digital and eCommerce businesses and to drive its fast growth in digital content, devices and online retail. Jamie Iannone has been named President of ... read more

Next Jump, Inc, a leader in next generation ecommerce and advertising technology, today announced the appointment of Sandeep Gupta as Vice President of Mobile Engineering, effective September 7. Mr. Gupta, 41, will be responsible for overseeing all of Next Jump's mobile engineering efforts, including iPhone, iPad and Android applications. He ... read more

PBL InterferonSource—the world’s leading source of interferon and related products, services, information and expertise—announced today that its founder and chief scientific officer (CSO), Sidney Pestka, M.D., will receive the ‘Distinguished Service Award’ from the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR) at the ISICR’s ... read more

MergerTech (www.mergertech.com), a global investment bank whose mission is to enable small-to-medium-sized technology and technology-enabled companies to realize the value of their businesses, has dedicated a team of bankers to support the rapid pace of transactions and abundance of investment ... read more

Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) today named Aura Oslapas, age 53, senior vice president and chief design officer, effective Sept. 15, 2010. In her new role, Oslapas will lead Best Buy’s design and brand identity team worldwide. “Aura ... read more

The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) announced today that Joseph Nadeau, PhD, an internationally renowned expert in genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and mouse models of human disease, has been appointed to the newly established position of Director of Research and Academic Affairs. He will also serve as ... read more

NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, announced today the appointment of Graeme Spicer to head VUKUNET, NEC’s universal advertising platform that connects digital out-of-home (DOOH) networks with ad revenue. VUKUNET is ... read more

LeasePlan USA is very proud to announce the promotion of 17-year industry veteran Brian Barber to the position of senior vice president, sales. After leading the organization to record highs in client satisfaction and loyalty results, Brian is now tasked with delivering new clients interested in ... read more

PrismTech™, a global leader in standards-based, performance-critical middleware, today announced that Dr. Vince Kovarik has been appointed as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for SDR. In this senior role Vince will provide technical leadership for PrismTech’s Spectra™ SDR products and services. ... read more

To better understand and address the needs of public libraries in North America, ebrary, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, today announced that it has formed a new advisory board. The new group will provide ebrary with insight and strategic direction as the ... read more

MPI Research, the largest single-site preclinical contract research organization worldwide, is pleased to announce that Alan P. Breau, PhD, has joined the company as Vice President of its Bioanalytical and Analytical Services (B/AS) division. B/AS is one of the three core research divisions at MPI Research, ... read more

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced that on August 18, 2010, the Compensation and Management Development Committee of its Board of Directors granted Alex Aali, Mindspeed’s new director of marketing, customer premises equipment ... read more

News Corporation’s MySpace (http://www.MySpace.com) and Fox Audience Network (FAN) today announced a plan to integrate the FAN business directly with MySpace. The move will enable MySpace to leverage FAN’s team and its leading technology platform. In addition, FAN announced that its President, Adam Bain, will leave ... read more

ASRC Management Services has selected Mark McQuaid to serve as program director on the recently awarded Multi-Disciplinary Engineering and Technology Services II contract at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Under the $250 million contract, the ASRC Management Services team will provide scientific research and engineering support ... read more

Federated Media Publishing (FM), a next-generation media company, today announced the acquisition of a platform for semantic and linguistic profiling of web-based content from TextDigger, a San Jose-based semantic search startup. “We’re proud ... read more

FieldView Solutions announced the hiring of John Consoli as Senior Vice President, Sales, effective immediately. Mr. Consoli joins FieldView Solutions from AFCO Systems where as Chief Technology Officer he managed the company’s product road map, supported the sales effort, ... read more

AOL Inc. announced today that Graham Moysey will join the company as General Manager, AOL Canada. Moysey will work with the Global Senior Executives and the Canadian leadership team to oversee the development and execution of the business strategy around AOL’s core objectives of content, advertising ... read more

AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) (NASDAQ:AVAV) today announced that former Teledyne and TEAC Aerospace executive Joel Hirsch has joined AeroVironment as vice president of strategic operations. Reporting to AV chairman and chief executive officer Tim Conver, Hirsch’s primary role will be to ... read more

MegaPath Inc., the leading provider of managed IP data, voice and security services in North America, today announced the company is celebrating 10 years of offering MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) services. Since 2000, MegaPath has leveraged its all-optical MPLS ... read more