Lisa Rhodes

Rhodes Joins IPC as Senior Vice President of Strategic Accounts

Sales and Technology Executive Tapped to Grow Business and Help Drive Innovation

New York, NY - IPC Information Systems Inc. today announced that it has appointed Lisa Rhodes to the position of senior vice president, strategic accounts, where her skills in handling complex sales and managing large-scale technology projects will be used to expand relationships within IPC's largest global accounts and identify new strategic account prospects.Rhodes joins IPC from Boston-based Sycamore Networks, where she was director of sales and business development.During her tenure with Sycamore, Rhodes developed a channel strategy that accelerated penetration of new markets, expanded the sales pipeline in strategic accounts, and secured large optical switching contracts.She will report to Mike Sheehan, managing director of IPC Global Sales.

"We are thrilled to have Lisa join our team," said Lance Boxer, chief executive officer of IPC."IPC's strategic accounts have always been intrinsic to our overall success.With Lisa's leadership and insight we plan to make IPC more valuable to our top customers.Her experience, which spans a wide range of technology sales including network hardware, software and telecommunications services, combined with her demonstrated ability to bring partners together for the customer's benefit, make her a perfect fit for IPC as we expand beyond our traditional business into network and managed services for trading organizations."

Rhodes has a unique background as both a technologist and sales executive that will enable her to provide truly consultative support to IPC customers and to feed back actionable marketplace intelligence to IPC.Prior to Sycamore Networks, Rhodes held senior positions for Lucent Technologies and MCI Telecommunications in national and global account sales.Rhodes has been recognized throughout her career for consistently breaking revenue growth goals.

"With its leadership in the top tier of the financial services industry, and its expanding product and services portfolio, IPC has an exciting opportunity to collaborate on customer business initiatives with a focused, value-based strategic selling approach," said Lisa Rhodes.