Ember Corporation, a leading ZigBee™ networking company, today announced that it has strengthened its management team, adding two seasoned executives who will help the company through its next phase of significant market expansion. Nick Finamore has joined the company as executive vice president of sales and marketing, while Charlie D’Ambrosio will serve as chief financial officer. The new management hires follow closely the appointment of Ember’s new CEO, Robert LeFort, who took over the reigns of the company from Chairman and interim-CEO Bob Metcalfe.
Finamore brings 20 years of experience in the communications silicon business. Prior to Ember, he was CEO for Engim, a wireless networking semiconductor company. Earlier, Finamore was the general manager for Intel’s Network Processor business where he led the organization responsible for the IXP family of network processors. Prior to that he was general manager of Intel’s PCI Bridge Operation. Finamore also held technical sales, sales management and application engineering management roles during his tenure at Intel. He earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University.
D’Ambrosio has operated in both public and private environments and brings more than 20 years of operational, infrastructure, M&A and strategic experience to Ember. Prior to joining Ember, D’Ambrosio was vice president and director of finance, administration and human resources for AverStar, the $200 million IT services subsidiary of L-3 Communications – Titan Group. He began his financial career at Andersen Consulting where he was a senior consultant in the banking, construction, manufacturing and hi-tech industries. He then joined Intermetrics, a software services, compiler and tools company where he held the positions of manager of financial planning and budgeting, treasury manager, vice president of human resources, and vice president of administration. D’Ambrosio holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Northeastern University and an MBA from Babson College.
“We need the expertise and experience that Nick and Charlie bring to Ember, as we scale into a major force in the embedded low-power wireless networking market,” said Ember CEO LeFort. “With these additions to the management team, we have everything in place – including a solid team, proven products, strong partners and a deep customer portfolio – as Ember transitions from a nascent startup to a mature networking company.”
ZigBee: Wireless Control That Simply Works
The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. The ZigBee Alliance is a rapidly growing, non-profit industry consortium of leading semiconductor manufacturers, technology providers, OEMs, and end-users worldwide. Membership is open to all. Additional information can be found at www.zigbee.org.
About Ember Corporation
Ember’s embedded networks enable communication among embedded microcontrollers with standards-based wireless mesh networking semiconductors and software. Ember helps its customers to automate home appliances, lower energy consumption in buildings, keep borders and infrastructure secure, and control industrial processes, just to name four of the many diverse applications being developed by Ember’s more than 100 customers. Spun out of MIT in 2001, Ember is headquartered in Boston and has its radio development center in Cambridge, England, and distributors worldwide. Ember is a lead member of the ZigBee Alliance, and its platform is the National Technical Systems’ (NTS) “Golden Suite” for 802.15.4/ZigBee interoperability testing. For more information, please visit www.ember.com.
