People Watch 08/15/12

Matt Giuliano joined broadband-acceleration company Actelis as senior vice president/Worldwide Sales and Customer Service. Giuliano held executive sales positions at Purcell Systems, Reefpoint (now Genband), Mangrove Systems, Ascend, Cascade, Sycamore, Lucent and Atrica…Allen Proithis, InterDigital’s vice president/Business Development and Strategic Solutions, is the new chairman of the Mobile Forum of the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley. The forum has established a platform “to stimulate communication and collaboration among businesses and people in the wireless and mobility sector by bringing together decision makers from the entire wireless value chain – from chipsets to content and from infrastructure to applications.”