Riedel Communications has appointed Jake Dodson as Director of Product Management, responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the Riedel product range and its development.
Dodson has accumulated more than 25 years’ experience telecoms, military, broadcast and live-performance, beginning at Marconi Research in the UK, working on high-speed optics for military and telecoms. In 1991 he founded Integrated Optical Components, a venture capital-funded start-up that produced high-speed (10Gbps) optical modulators for telecom optical backbone transmission, and the company was successfully taken public in 1996. Dodson subsequently led product management groups at Silicon Valley-based E-Tek Dynamics, JDS Uniphase and WaveSplitter Technologies.
In 2006 Dodson joined Clear-Com as part of a turnaround management team. During his tenure as VP of Product Management, he helped return the company to profitability and played a key part in the recommendation and acquisition of a Canadian technology company. He most recently served as VP of Product Management at Vitec Videocom.
‘Over Jake’s career, he has been a founder and leader of successful leading-edge technology firms,’ says Riedel Communications CEO, Thomas Riedel. ‘His unusual and exceptional track record in guiding companies toward ever-greater success will certainly be an asset to Riedel as we build on our acclaimed product portfolio and move further into the realm of software-based solutions, which offer our customers many new possibilities.’
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