Technology >> CEO Interviews >> September 22, 2003
MICHAEL GALLAGHER is FlarionTechnologies' President. Mr. Gallagher leads
Flarion's global vision of customer adoption, through strategic vendor
and licensing relationships with current and future wireless
infrastructure suppliers, by building world-class deployment, customer
support and execution-oriented internal organizations. Before joining
Flarion in early 2001, Mr. Gallagher was most recently the Senior Vice
President for Worldwide Sales and Operations for Nortel Networks' IP
Services business unit (formerly Shasta Networks, acquired by Nortel in
April 1999). At the IP Services business unit (Shasta), he built a
global and dedicated IP-centric sales force of over 300 sales and SEs,
to reach a $200 million revenue goal and #1 market share for the Shasta
5000 Broadband Service Node (BSN) in less than 15 months. Prior to
Shasta Networks, Mr. Gallagher led Bay Network's North American sales
operations. At Bay Networks, he had P&L responsibilities for an
organization with annual revenues of more than $1.5 billion and over
1,100 people. During his tenure, Mr. Gallagher focused on US Telco and
ISP enterprise operations, increasing sales tenfold, from $180 million
in 1990 to over $1.6 billion in 1998. Mr. Gallagher's industry
experience includes over 17 years of field sales operations supporting
major telecommunications accounts. He began and developed his career at
AT&T, NET and MCI, marketing and selling a broad range of each company's
respective voice and data communication products and solutions. Mr.
Gallagher is a Board member with Enterasys Networks, Inc., and Cetacean
Networks, a privately held company. Mr. Gallagher holds a Bachelor's
degree in Business from Fordham University and holds an MBA from Pace
University. Profile
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Mr. Gallagher: Flarion Technologies is a six-year-old company. It
started its first
