Meetrix Appoints Lee Fawcett new CEO

Aug. 24, 2012 - PRLog -- Santa Monica, CA ---  Meetrix today announced the appointment of Lee Fawcett, as CEO, succeeding Jebb Dykstra who remains CEO of a Meetrix subsidiary and a Meetrix board member.  Mr. Fawcett, an experienced technology executive, most recently served as Vice President in the Enterprise Computing Solutions division of Arrow Electronics, Inc., a worldwide technology distributor.  Prior to Arrow, Mr. Fawcett served as VP within Alternative Technology, Inc. which was subsequently acquired by Arrow.  He also was an executive at Alcatel-Lucent, and at AT&T Paradyne, where he held various executive positions. He brings combined experience in software R&D, operations, services, sales, and business creation and leadership.

"I am very excited to be joining Meetrix at this time in the company's evolution.  Leveraging its industry leading cloud enablement platform technology in the Unified Communications space positions Meetrix as a leader in the burgeoning Cloud Software as a Service market.", Fawcett said.  "Combining our UC offers with our patented technology will take us to the next level in Cloud based SaaS solutions.  I look forward to leading our company on the next leg of our journey".  

According to Meetrix’s Chairman James Brown:  “We are excited to have the opportunity to attract a world class senior executive of Lee’s caliber to grow our commercial Cloud solutions business, implement new technologies, and embark on an aggressive channel sales strategy.   We are confident that under Lee’s leadership we can fully realize the potential of Meetrix's Cloud Enablement solutions.  I also want to thank Jebb for his leadership and commitment to getting our Meetrix UC offer to where it is today.  Jebb will continue to provide leadership in pursuing our Intellectual Property initiatives and in implementation of new products and technologies.  Concurrent with these changes Mark Gilroy has been promoted to President, Meetrix.”

About Meetrix:
Meetrix delivers enterprise-class unified communications, collaboration, and social business solutions in the cloud for Mid-Market and SMB/SME customers. Meetrix is an IBM premier partner, winner of the IBM Beacon Award and most recently was runner up for the Best of Show/CTO Award @ Lotusphere 2012.  

For more information contact Meetrix:
Website:  http://www.meetrix.us
Contact: Chris Meyers
Email: cmeyers@meetrix.us