Salisbury Joins Metricom as President of the Wireless Services Division
LOS GATOS, Calif. — December 20, 1993 — Brian M. Salisbury, 41, has joined Metricom Inc., as president of the recently formed Wireless Services Division. He was most recently president of Bell Mobility ARDIS, Canada's national wireless data network.
In the new position, Salisbury reports to Robert Dilworth, Metricom president and CEO. The Wireless Services Division was formed to market Metricom's new general-purpose wireless data communications networks. The sister UtiliNet Division markets the firm's original network products tailored for government and privately owned utilities.
Dilworth said, "During his tenure at Bell ARDIS, Brian Salisbury directed the evolution of the business from a specialized regional operation to a full-blown nationwide public network. His mastery of that implementation is exactly the experience we need to introduce our low-cost, wireless data communications networks, already proven in the utilities market, to general business, government and academic users throughout the U.S."
Before joining Bell Mobility ARDIS in 1992, Salisbury was director of new product management at Rogers Cantel, Inc., a supplier of products and services for the cellular telephone business. Earlier, he was director of client systems for Raft Mobile Systems Corp., a joint venture between Cantel and Ericsson.
After graduating from the University of Waterloo in 1976 with a B.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering, Salisbury held several technical and management positions in Motorola's mobile communications sector over a ten year period.
Founded in 1985, Metricom (NASDAQ:MCOM) is a leader in digital, wireless data communications networking technology. The firm, headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif., has developed a license-free, high-performance, low-cost regional data communications network system that can be used in a broad range of personal computer and industrial applications. Metricom networks feature advanced spread-spectrum, packet radio technology which sends computer data across a network of intelligent radio nodes.
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Metricom Inc.
Bob Dilworth, 408/399-8200
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William Orrange or Janis Ulevich, 415/329-1590