Smart Mobile™ wireless solutions, today announced it has strengthened its global management presence with the promotion of Mr. Kees van Veenendaal to vice president of worldwide sales operations.

"Historically we have experienced excellent growth in international sales," said Jim Vogt, president and chief executive officer of Trapeze Networks. "I'm very happy to announce that starting February 1, 2008, Kees will be responsible for our worldwide sales operations. In his former role as vice president of sales and managing director of international, Kees was instrumental and very successful in establishing Trapeze Networks' presence outside the United Sates. With this expansion of our executive management team, our global sales management capabilities are strengthened significantly."

"I'm very excited about my new role at Trapeze Networks," said van Veenendaal. "This company has phenomenal products and a formidable team dedicated to designing, developing and selling the best enterprise wireless LAN solution available in the market. Our international go-to-market strategy was successful and will incorporate this approach into our worldwide sales operations to achieve our sales goals for the future."

Prior to working at Trapeze Networks, van Veenendaal was vice president of EMEA sales at Extreme Networks and also held sales positions at US Robotics, Gandalf, Digital Communications Associates and Wang.