RAD Appoints Franck Darmon as VP European Sales

RAD, the global vendor of Service Assured Access solutions for service providers and Service Assured Networking solutions for critical infrastructure, has named Franck Darmon as its Vice President and General Manager for Europe.

Darmon brings to the position over 20 years of executive experience in sales and international partnership management development. Prior to RAD, Darmon served as Sales Vice President and General Manager for Western Europe at NICE Systems. Before that, he held a series of managerial positions at Comverse, the last of which was Sales Vice President and General Manager for Western Europe and Africa.

Darmon holds a Masters in Science in computer science from the Conservatoire national des Arts & Métiers (CNAM) in Paris and is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.

“We are very pleased to welcome Franck to RAD,” stated Dror Bin, the company’s President and CEO. “Europe is our largest single market, and we are confident that Franck’s experience and vision will further strengthen our position as we work together with our customers and partners in continuing to meet the challenge of making tomorrow’s state-of-the-art communications solutions available today.”

Based in Paris, Darmon will be responsible for seven RAD offices and RAD business throughout Europe.

About RAD
RAD is a global Telecom Access solutions and products vendor. Our Service Assured Access solutions for mobile, business and wholesale service providers are designed to improve the way they compete: service agility to minimize time to revenue, complete visibility of network performance for greater operational efficiency and better QoE to reduce churn. We are at the forefront of pioneering technologies, such as Distributed NFV, performance monitoring, timing synchronization over packets and hardware miniaturization.

RAD is also a leader in communications solutions for critical infrastructure. Our Service Assured Networking solutions include best-of-breed tools for cyber security and mission-critical communications, as well as for seamless migration to modern packet switched networks and applications. RAD provides field-proven and performance-guaranteed solutions for hybrid TDM and packet- based substation connectivity, operational networks, distance and differential protection communications, secure IEC 61850-3 substation networking, and distribution automation and smart meter backhaul.

Founded in 1981, RAD has an installed base of more than 13 million units. It is a member of the $1.3 billion RAD Group of companies, a world leader in communications solutions.