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Mr. Sigrist is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Video Solutions Group where he is responsible for leading business strategy, product development, and product management and marketing for Polycom’s market-leading video conferencing and collaboration product portfolio.
Prior to joining Polycom, Mr. Sigrist, a twenty year industry veteran of networking and telecommunications companies with experience in both the enterprise and service provider markets, held senior executive, product management and engineering positions with Lucent Technologies, Ascend Communications and Octel Communications. Most recently he was CEO of Hammerhead Systems, a networking startup.
As president and general manager of the Edge Access Division at Lucent, Sigrist drove Lucent's voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) strategy for softswitches, media gateways and servers, as well as Lucent's dial access servers and ATM access systems to worldwide service providers. During his tenure at Lucent, he was responsible for over 1,200 employees and revenues that exceeded $1.5 billion. | 