IN THE NEWS AT CERONA
11/2006: Cerona adds Dr. John S. Baras to its Board Of Directors
Cerona Networks Corporation, a Maryland based manufacturer of ground-based equipment for satellite communications announced today their addition of Dr. John S. Baras to the Company’s Board Of Directors.Dr. Baras holds a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research. He was the founding director of ISR, which is one of the first six National Science Foundation engineering research centers. Dr. Baras is the Lockheed Martin Chair in Systems Engineering and is the founding and current director of the Maryland Hybrid Networks Center (HyNet) a NASA research partnership center, which is a world-renowned center of excellence in wireless and hybrid communication networks. He also serves as a faculty member of the university's Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics and is an affiliate professor in the Computer Science Department.
“We are very excited to have John join our Board of Directors. His tremendous depth of experience in engineering, research and satellite communications, combined with his leadership and business acumen will be invaluable to our success,” said Mitch Robinson, President and CEO of Cerona.
“I am very pleased and enthusiastically excited to join Cerona Networks in this capacity,” said Dr. Baras. “Furthermore, I believe that Cerona is poised to provide exceptional products and solutions for the expanding world- wide markets of broadband satellite and wireless network and services."
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