Michael Frendo Joining Polycom as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Engineering

Industry veteran will lead global engineering team to deliver innovative, high quality collaboration solutions that enable customer success and drive profitable growth

Michael Frendo is joining Polycom as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Engineering. (Photo: Business Wire)

SAN JOSE, Calif.--()--Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) today announced that Michael Frendo is joining the company as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Engineering, effective Tuesday, May 13, 2014. In this role, Frendo will be responsible for global engineering delivery and execution, driving efficient business operations, and lifecycle management for Polycom’s portfolio of video, voice and content collaboration solutions. Frendo will assume responsibility from A.E. Natarajan, who will be leaving Polycom. Natarajan will work closely with Frendo to ensure a smooth transition. Frendo will be a member of Polycom’s executive team and will report to President and CEO Peter Leav.

“Making our customers successful and driving profitable growth are our top priorities and Michael brings a deep understanding of how engineering, quality and innovation must be aligned to solve our customers’ biggest challenges. He is also a well-respected executive and engineering leader with broad experience running product business units and globally distributed engineering organizations that deliver results,” said Leav. “We thank A.E. for his contributions to Polycom and wish him the best in the next chapter of his career.”

“I look forward to leading the global engineering team and working closely with Peter and the executive team as we focus on providing an outstanding user experience, developing industry leading and customer focused innovations, and delivering a high quality, world class collaboration portfolio,” said Frendo.

Prior to joining Polycom, Frendo was the Senior Vice President of Architecture at Infinera Corp., where he led the architecture team responsible for all aspects of Infinera’s systems and optical architecture. Frendo has had extensive experience leading global product organizations. At Avaya, he was General Manager of the Unified Communications Solutions Business Unit, where he was responsible for integrating Nortel’s Enterprise Solutions Business into Avaya’s portfolio of solutions. He also held various executive, global engineering and general management leadership roles at Juniper Networks, McDATA Corp. and Cisco Systems, where he was Vice President for Systems and Software Engineering in the company’s Voice Technology Group.

About Polycom

Polycom helps organizations unleash the power of human collaboration. More than 400,000 companies and institutions worldwide defy distance with secure video, voice and content solutions from Polycom to increase productivity, speed time to market, provide better customer service, expand education and save lives. Polycom and its global partner ecosystem provide flexible collaboration solutions for any environment that deliver the best user experience, the broadest multi-vendor interoperability and unmatched investment protection. Visit www.polycom.com or connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to learn more.

Forward Looking Statements and Risk Factors

This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding profitable growth and our future innovations and collaboration portfolio. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including competition; demand for our products and solutions; our ability to successfully execute on programs designed to drive profitable growth; future changes to our areas of strategic focus; and disruptions due to today’s announced organizational change. These and other risks and uncertainties related to our business are discussed in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2014, and in other reports filed by Polycom with the SEC. Polycom disclaims any intent or obligations to update these forward-looking statements.

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Contacts

Polycom, Inc.
Ryan Batty, 1-408-586-4467 (Press)
ryan.batty@polycom.com
Laura Graves, 1-408-586-4271 (Investor)
laura.graves@polycom.com

Release Summary

Technology industry veteran Michael Frendo is joining Polycom to lead the company's global engineering team.

Contacts

Polycom, Inc.
Ryan Batty, 1-408-586-4467 (Press)
ryan.batty@polycom.com
Laura Graves, 1-408-586-4271 (Investor)
laura.graves@polycom.com