Michael Frendo appointed executive VP of Polycom worldwide engineering

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Polycom Inc. today announced that Michael Frendo is joining the company as executive vice president of Worldwide Engineering, effective today. 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 organisations that deliver results," said Leav.

Prior to joining Polycom, Frendo was the senior VP 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 organisations. At Avaya, he was GM 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 VP for Systems and Software Engineering in the company's Voice Technology Group.