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Freshtel Appoints Another New CEO |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
The fourth person this year to head up Freshtel
Holdings will be Novell Asia Pacific Chairman Ms Rhonda O'Donnell.
O'Donnell has already been consulting to Freshtel for the past two months meaning she began getting involved immediately after the sudden departure of John
Butkiewicz who resigned in April after less than three months on the job.
He had replaced Founder and former CEO Michael
Carew in mid-January who had stepped aside to focus doing big deals for the wholesale VoIP carrier.
Corporate Affairs Director
Peter Warner stepped into the breach after the disappearance of Butkiewicz, so that Carew could continue in his new role of Global Business Director and now
O'Donnell goes full time at Freshtel rounding out the four for the year and hopefully putting the company on an even keel as it continues to stretch itself into ambitious strategic growth.
Freshtel Chairman, Ken Loughnan, said: "The Freshtel board is
absolutely delighted to welcome Rhonda to the role of Chief Executive Officer
of the Freshtel Group. Over the past two months Rhonda demonstrated that she
has the skills, acumen and vision to take this company forward.
"Rhonda has a strong track record in growing and transforming
companies, global experience and deep government and industry connections that
will bode well for Freshtel as we continue to grow."
O'Donnell joined Novell in 2001 as
President and CEO of Novell Asia Pacific with responsibility for the management
of Novell's entire regional operation spanning 13 markets and employing
over 800 staff. She was a member of the company's Worldwide Management
Committee.
"Freshtel's technology and
solutions have the potential to transform the telecommunications industry as we
know it. I am very excited by this opportunity and look forward to using my
skills to help this promising Australian company heighten the impact it is
having globally," she said.
O'Donnell can lay claim to being in a strategic management position at Novel during its tumultuous transition from a proprietary to an open
source company and is the architect behind Novell's global strategy to
capitalise on Linux and open source technology in emerging markets and
successfully led Novell's expansion into China
and India.
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