Aerial Communications Inc. appointed John Foster and Thomas Wilson Jr. to its board of directors. Foster and Wilson both will serve on Aerial’s audit committee and on its stock option compensation committee. Foster is president and founder of Vedra International Associates. Before founding Vedra, he spent 29 years with AT&T Corp. in various executive positions. Wilson is chairman of Information Resources Inc., a Chicago-based supplier of information services, decision support software and executive information systems.
Bob McCall is the new vice president and general manager for Motorola Inc.’s Radio Network Solutions group for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. During his 27-year tenure with Motorola, McCall played an integral part in the company’s digital standard development with the Association of Public Safety Communications Officers Project 25 in the United States and the Digital Multiple Channel Access system in Japan.
John T. Stupka was appointed to CellStar Corp.’s board of directors. Stupka has served as president and chief executive officer of Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Inc. and president and CEO of Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems. Stupka’s appointment makes him the fourth non-employee director on CellStar’s board of eight members.
Illinois Superconductor Corp. named Dennis Craig vice president of manufacturing, with responsibility for leading all manufacturing operations. Prior to joining the company, Craig spent eight years with Motorola Inc. where he most recently was manufacturing operations manager in the component products group.
Motorola Inc.’s Messaging, Information and Media Sector announced two top management changes. Frank Lloyd is now senior vice president and general manager of the company’s Messaging Systems Products group. He succeeds Hector Ruiz, who recently was named executive vice president of the Semiconductor Products sector. Randall Battat was named corporate vice president and general manager of the Information Systems Group. Battat joined Motorola in 1994 after spending 13 years with Apple Computer Inc.
Teledesic Corp. appointed Denis Gilhooly vice president of business development and Sami Hinedi director of communication systems. Gilhooly will be responsible for developing international investor and service provider partnerships. Most recently, he was media and technology director at the Wall Street Journal Europe. Hinedi will focus on issues such as payload vs. capacity, coding, modulation, interference, synchronization, and complexity vs. performance trade-offs for the company’s satellite network. Previously, Hinedi was supervisor of the Digital Signal Processing Research group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Omnipoint Communications Inc. announced Stewart Mahoney and Ralph Davis have joined the company as technical directors responsible for building the company’s personal communications services network in several northwest markets. Mahoney will be responsible for the network buildout in upstate New York and Davis will direct construction in the company’s New England markets. Mahoney most recently worked with Sprint PCS, while Davis was general program manager with AirTouch Communications Inc.’s ventures in Spain and India.
Lisa Gernon was named regional director of Cable & Wireless Inc.’s mobile telecommunications business in Europe. Gernon will focus on the company’s personal communications network investments in Mercury One 2 One, Bouygues Telecom and E-Plus. Most recently, Gernon was group director of strategy and marketing for Orange plc.
