Hjelm to Oversee Excite@Home Network
By Jeff Baumgartner -- Multichannel News, 6/25/2001 10:54:00 AM
Excite@Home Corp. Monday named Chris Hjelm executive vice president of broadband-network services.
Hjelm, who will report directly to chairman and CEO Patti Hart, will be responsible for the performance of Excite@Home's network, including network engineering, operations and internal information systems.
Hjelm, 39, most recently was CEO and president of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Zoho Corp., a Web-based procurement vendor that streamlines shipping and banking for the hospitality sector.
Before that, he spent 11 years at Federal Express Corp., most recently as senior vice president and chief information officer for the company's information-technology division.
Hjelm joins Excite@Home during a time when the company has been criticized for a number of service outages and electronic-mail server problems in recent months.
In February, Excite@Home hired AT&T Labs vice president of data and Internet-network services Hossein Eslambolchi as its interim president of broadband networks. Essentially on loan from AT&T Labs for about six months, Eslambolchi was brought on board to help Excite@Home scale its broadband network.
At the time, the company said it was in the process of building a 'carrier-grade' infrastructure that would be centralized at Excite@Home's hometown of Redwood City, Calif.
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