Technology >> CEO Interviews >> December 17, 2001

Melissa Cruz – Concord Communications Inc (ccrd)

MELISSA CRUZ is CFO for Concord Communications. Ms. Cruz has more than 17 years of experience working in finance and operations for high technology companies. She oversees the financial, legal, information technology, operations, investor and human resource aspects of the company and joined Concord in 1997. Prior to Concord, Ms. Cruz was the international controller at Bay Networks, having joined Bay at its high growth inception as Wellfleet Communications. Prior to Bay, Ms. Cruz spent nine years at Digital Equipment in a variety of financial management roles, beginning in their financial development program. Ms. Cruz holds a BS in Finance from Boston College and an MS in Management from Lesley College. Profile
TWST: Could you give our readers some historical perspective on Concord

Communications, some idea of the evolution of the company?

Ms. Cruz: From a historical perspective, what we do is