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Polycom Appoints Navin Mehta as SVP of Global Services
Posted on Monday, August 22, 2011

 Mehta Brings Extensive Industry Experience to Further the Company’s Momentum in Fast-Growing Services Business

 
PLEASANTON, Calif. - Aug 22, 2011 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), a global leader in unified communications (UC), today announced the appointment of Navin Mehta as senior vice president of Global Services. Mehta is responsible for driving Polycom's global services strategy, including the customer support function, and expanding its portfolio of service offerings to provide customers with complete UC solutions. Mehta will report to Sudhakar Ramakrishna, executive vice president and general manager of UC solutions and chief development officer.
 
"Our global services organization has had tremendous success, and bringing Navin on board will ensure we continue to drive our rapid pace of innovation and growth as the demand for visual collaboration solutions and services increases worldwide," said Ramakrishna. "With Navin leading the team, customers and partners gain a trusted advisor with expertise in delivering best-in-class services and customer support, and Polycom gains an industry veteran with a proven track record for leading and growing a services and support organization."
 
Polycom has seen strong revenue growth for its UC solutions, including services. In Q2 2011, Polycom announced record revenues of $366 million (24 percent year-over-year growth), with services accounting for more than 17 percent of revenue. Mehta brings 28 years of industry experience in services and customer support, including operational expertise and leadership, to help Polycom build on its momentum in the fast-growing services market.
 
Polycom UC video solutions bring people "face-to-face," creating a highly collaborative environment that significantly improves learning and engagement, as well as overall productivity and efficiency. Polycom and its network of partners provide a full range of UC service offerings, which continuously receive high customer satisfaction ratings. These service offerings include:
 
Customer care and support services including 24 x 7 technical help desk and onsite resident engineers
Professional services including network design, planning, implementation, deployment, optimization services, training, and certification programs
A range of hosted and managed services for UC solutions
"Polycom is committed to enhancing customer relationships by focusing on the full lifecycle of service offerings to ensure the successful creation, operation, and expansion of UC environments," said Mehta. "Whether a customer is creating a multi-point visual collaboration environment or launching a simple video starter-system, delivered traditionally or from the cloud, our full range of service offerings can be mixed-and-matched to accommodate their needs. We are committed to ensuring every customer has an exceptional experience with Polycom."
 
Previously, Mehta was the vice president of Professional and Application Services at Motorola Networks. He has also held executive services positions at Nokia Siemens Networks; Comverse Technology, Inc.; Nortel Networks Corporation; and Compaq Computer Corp./Digital Equipment Corp, and brings extensive domestic and global experience including international management assignments in the Asia-Pacific region.
 
Mehta has a master's degree in business administration from Boston University, a bachelor's degree in law from Delhi University in India, and a bachelor's degree from Punjab University in India.
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Douglas Fearing- Co-Founder / President

A graduate of DeVry Institute of Technology, Doug has been in the Technology industry since 1976 and actively oversees Fearing’s daily operations. Along with his wife, Lois, and three others, Doug started Fearing’s in a 600 square-foot facility in Portage, Wisconsin. In the 25 years since, the company has grown to over 30 employees with offices in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Doug likes to say he’s a “TV Technician with a dream� going back to his history with the family’s original business-Fearing’s TV and Appliance.

Doug values time with family, watersports, hiking, snowshoeing and skiing. In addition to being a devoted member of his church, Doug serves as Board President for Kinship Mentoring of Columbia County, Board member of Schools for Haiti and Scripture Chair of the Gideons-Portage camp.

Lois Fearing- Co-Founder/Accounting, Human Resources

A graduate of MATC, Lois oversees Fearing’s daily book keeping along with various HR responsibilities.

Along with Doug, Lois is deeply connected to community outreach, serving as a Board member and Fundraising Committee Chairperson for Kinship Mentoring of Columbia County. She also serves on the Schools for Haiti Fundraising committee. In addition, Lois’ ongoing passion and commitment to provide care for the elderly comes from her 10-year history of working in a Reedsburg, Wisconsin Nursing home.

Lois enjoys singing, hiking, sunny days on the pontoon, and spending time with her 4 grandchildren.

Ehren Tresner-VP of Technology and Innovation

Ehren drives Fearing’s technology by continually seeking out trends to enhance capabilities while supporting Sales, Engineering and Installation teams. Throughout his years with Fearing’s, Ehren’s talent and vision have joined forces to create a wide variety of projects and strategic solutions that exceed expectation.

Ehren loves music, family time, movies, nature, sustainability efforts and electric vehicles.

Ben Voeck-Director of Commercial AV

With 10 years with Fearing’s and over twice that long in the industry, Ben continues to lead, coordinate, and develop the Commercial AV team.

By consistently delivering an outstanding experience and outcome, Ben contributes to the Fearing’s legacy of long-lasting partnerships that truly make a difference. Whatever the Commercial AV need may be, Ben and team deliver at the highest level.

Ben is an avid fisherman and photographer. He enjoys coaching his sons and other youth.

Chris Matson-Senior VP of Sales

Chris has been with Fearing’s for 20 years and in the industry for over 2 decades. As a Certified leader in Sales Acceleration and trained in EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating Systems), Chris successfully utilizes his skills to lead the Fearing’s Salesforce. Chris and team are motivated and driven to develop new client partnerships while continuing to reinforce loyal long-term relationships with ongoing Service excellence.

Married for 19 years with 3 children, Chris enjoys skiing, hiking, fishing, boating, hunting, camping and golf. He’s also been actively involved as a Youth Football and Softball coach for his family and others.