Former Cisco Veterans Joseph Ammirato and Richard Hsieh at Woven Systems

Woven Systems, Inc. announced the
appointment of Joseph Ammirato as vice-president of marketing and
Richard Hsieh as senior director of product management. This veteran
marketing team has been carefully selected to enable Woven to fully
capitalize on growing market demand for massively scalable,
standards-based, ultra-low latency Ethernet Fabric switching solutions
for next-generation data centers. 

Previously at Cisco for nine years-where he was the senior director of
product marketing for the entire Catalyst 4500 and 4900 product
lines-Ammirato brings over two decades of strategic product management
experience defining next-generation product lines in networking
software and hardware. His unique combination of skills includes 12
years of experience in marketing management and 14 years of software
engineering and program management. Before that he was senior director
of product management in charge of Cisco’s access routers, where he was
responsible for product strategy and roadmap, outbound marketing, and
competitive product positioning. Prior to Cisco, Ammirato held
senior-level positions with a number of successful companies including
3Com, Borland International, Ashton-Tate, and Sun Microsystems.
Ammirato has a Bachelor of Science degree in General Sciences from
Cornell University.

As Woven Systems’ new senior director of product management, Richard
Hsieh has amassed nearly 20 years of product management, engineering
and software design expertise. Most recently with Cisco since 1996 as
director, product management in the Gigabit Systems Business Unit, he
was responsible for all product management aspects of Cisco’s Catalyst
4500 Gigabit Ethernet Switching product family. Prior to that he held
key product management roles, including senior manager of the Wireless
Access Business Unit and product manager for the Desktop Switching
Business Unit. Prior to Cisco, Hsieh worked at Asante Technologies, Sun
Microsystems and Tandem. Hsieh holds a Master of Business
Administration degree from Santa Clara University, a Master of Science
in Computer Science from Michigan State University, and a Bachelor of
Science in Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

Woven Systems, Inc.