Half Moon Bay, CA — (press release excerpt) — OnCore Systems Corporation today appointed Chuck Colford to the newly created post of General Manager. Colford brings more than 20 years of team building, engineering, and executive management expertise to OnCore Systems. Colford will be based out of the company's recently announced Ottawa Design Center located in Ottawa,
Canada.

“With two decades of business experience with embedded systems for both large corporate and pre-IPO sized firms, Colford brings a wealth of proven, results-oriented experience to the company”, stated Chip Downing, President and CEO for OnCore Systems. “Chuck has directly owned revenue ramps exceeding $150M. His proven track record of successful product development experience will help drive OnCore's product growth and deployment of next generation embedded operating systems architectures.”

Prior to joining OnCore Systems, Colford held a variety of leadership positions in business, product and organizational development roles at Nortel Networks — a globally recognized telecommunications equipment provider. Most recently, Colford was responsible for delivering the end-to-end business results for 2.5Gbps portfolio products as part of the Nortel Passport 15000 Multi-Service Data Carrier Grade product family. Colford graduated with honors from the University of New Brunswick and holds a B.Sc.E in Electrical Engineering.

 
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