Insignia appoints John Rizzo as Chief Technology Officer
Fremont, USA: Insignia Solutions has announced the appointment of John Rizzo as Chief Technology Officer. Rizzo will be responsible for guiding Insignia's technology strategy and interfacing with industry players, standards bodies, and business partners.

John Rizzo brings over ten years of industry technical leadership to Insignia Solutions. As chief architect for Vodafone's global products and services group, Rizzo has participated as a company lead on several leading- edge wireless data industry standards expert groups, and has held technical strategy positions with two global mobile operators, Airtouch Communications and Vodafone group PLC.

Prior to joining Insignia, John Rizzo was based in Dusseldorf Germany with the Vodafone global products and services group, producing the global specifications for supporting infrastructure and handset specifications for the end-to-end wireless Java solution for Vodafone Live! which launched in more than 5 major countries and has 1.5 million users.
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Mihir Ravel departs National Instruments
Austin, USA: National Instruments has announced that Mihir Ravel, vice president of technology and corporate development, is leaving the company this summer to pursue his interests in globalized development and education.
Under Mihir's stewardship, NI initiated a number of technology and business initiatives that the company will leverage in coming years. Mihir drove the formation of strategic relationships with key technology partners, initiated deeper involvement in academic research and educational projects and fostered the creation of key mixed-signal and wireless technologies that are behind the company's most recent modular PXI/PCI products.
"With the rapid changes we're seeing in the globalisation of research and development, I'm excited about now working with emerging technology ventures and academic institutions on best practices for global R&D and engineering education," Mihir said. As part of his focus on the challenges of globalise innovation, Ravel will continue to work with NI as an adviser on academic and technology issues.
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