Avi Wellingstein has recently joined Alvarion as President of the Customer Business Division, bringing to the company years of extensive managerial experience earned while at Comverse. Immediately prior to coming to Alvarion, he led the Comverse InSight Open Services Environment group as vice president and chief commercial officer, responsible for its worldwide business. His previous positions at Comverse included corporate VP and chief procurement officer, a position in which he was in charge of $300M annual expenditures and led the company’s cost trimming campaign and prior to that, managing director of APAC. Before joining Comverse, Mr. Wellingstein fulfilled the role of vice president of sales and marketing of Orbotech Pacific where he led the sales of optical inspection equipment for the printed circuit board industry and LCD manufacturers in the Far East. Mr. Wellingstein earned a bachelors of science in engineering and an MBA in information technology and marketing from Tel-Aviv University.