Adaptix adopts new management team

Broadband wireless vendor Adaptix has named a new management team, led by President and CEO Mike Pisterzi, who formerly was CEO of Transat Technologies, Photuris and AccessLan Communications. "In order to optimize and scale Adaptix to take advantage of the massive opportunity in the wireless broadband space, we've assembled a multi-national executive team with global experience that has done it before," Pisterzi said in a statement. "With this team, there was no learning curve and no hesitation, meaning we've been attacking the market opportunity from day one." Pisterzi guided at least two of his previous firms to acquisition. Photuris was acquired by Mahi Networks (now Meriton Networks), and AccessLan was acquired by Advanced Fibre Communications (which itself was later acquired by Tellabs).

Other new executives joining Adaptix include Timothy Montgomery, senior vice president and CFO; Byron Young, vice president of marketing and product management; Nicholas Thomas, vice president of global sales and service; and Hui Liu, chief technical advisor. Mongomery previously worked at Photuris and AccessLan; Young served at Transat and AFC; Thomas was at Covaro Networks (acquired by ADVA Optical Networking); and Liu was the chief scientist at Cwill Telecommunications--but also was the founder of in 2000 of Broadstorm, which later became Adaptix.

Liu developed Adaptix's orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) solution, and also is credited as having been one of the developers behind time division-synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA) technology.

Young told Telephony last week that the company's focus on OFDMA-based Mobile WiMAX will not fundamentally change with to new management team in place.