ShoreTel (NASDAQ: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications, today announced that its board of directors has named Peter Blackmore to serve as the company’s president and chief executive officer, effective today. Don Girskis, who served as interim CEO, will resume his position as senior vice president of worldwide sales.

Blackmore was most recently president, CEO and a member of the board of directors of UTStarcom, Inc., a provider of Internet protocol-based network solutions. There, he focused UTStarcom’s strategy to capitalize on opportunities in China and India. Before UTStarcom, Blackmore was executive vice president in charge of worldwide sales, marketing and technology at Unisys Corporation. Prior to Unisys, Blackmore worked at Hewlett-Packard where he served as executive vice president of the Customer Solutions Group and, before that, of the Enterprise Systems Group. From 1991 until its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard in 2002, Blackmore served in several senior management positions at Compaq Computer Corporation reporting directly to the CEO, including senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing and then executive vice president for sales and service. Earlier Blackmore held senior field sales and channel management roles at Compaq in Europe and North America.

“Peter brings a wealth of hardware, software, services and channel expertise to ShoreTel,” said Gary Daichendt, chairman of the board at ShoreTel. “His track record of successfully scaling technology organizations worldwide makes him the right leader to accelerate ShoreTel’s growth.”

“ShoreTel has a solid reputation for industry-leading solutions and world-class customer satisfaction, and I am thrilled to be joining the company,” said Blackmore. “I look forward to working with the entire ShoreTel team to help the company continue to accelerate its growth and achieve its tremendous potential.”

Daichendt added, “On behalf of the board, I also want to thank Don Girskis for his leadership of ShoreTel during our search for a new CEO, during which time ShoreTel continued to execute effectively on its plan and deliver record revenues, beating industry growth rates. This is a strong foundation on which to build.”

Blackmore serves on the board of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. and holds an M.A. in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K. He is married with two children and lives in Northern California.

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ShoreTel, Inc., (NASDAQ: SHOR)  announced that the company’s ShoreWare Call Manager suite has received Citrix Ready certification from Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure.

Certification signifies that features in the ShoreWare Call Manager Suite run seamlessly in the Citrix XenApp environment, providing knowledge workers and call center agents with industry leading telephony capabilities, visual voicemail, IM, presence and advanced call routing.

With Citrix XenApp, the ShoreWare Call Manager client is streamed from a server instead of installed on each user’s PC. This enables users to access their applications from any location and reduces desktop hardware requirements while lowering the cost of a ShoreTel deployment.

ShoreWare Call Manager can be “published” on the Citrix XenApp server once, and then deployed to hundreds of users in minutes regardless of their location.

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Mitel Networks Corporation, the trusted innovator in unified IP communications solutions and applications, today announced that it has filed a lawsuit against ShoreTel Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging infringement of four Mitel® patents – U.S. Patent Nos. 5,940,834, 5,703,942, 5,541,983, and 5,657,446.

“Mitel has invested significant resources into intellectual property in support of its communications innovations, and we intend to assert our rights against those that infringe that intellectual property,” said Christian Szpilfogel, Office of the CTO, Mitel.

Innovation has been at the heart of Mitel’s strategy of developing one of the industry’s leading unified IP communications solutions and product portfolios. Mitel has hundreds of patents and pending applications in the United States, Canada and Europe, and in other countries around the world, The company has been and continues to be recognized for leadership and innovation, earning numerous industry awards.

Mitel has retained the services of Fish & Richardson P.C., a national law firm with offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Dallas, Delaware, New York, San Diego, Silicon Valley, Twin Cities, and Washington, DC.

About Mitel
Mitel, a leading provider of unifying IP communications solutions and applications for business customers, is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with offices, partners and resellers worldwide. For more information, please visit www.mitel.com.

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