[GB-Today] Press Release: CENIC BOARD APPOINTS NEW PRESIDENT

[CENIC Editor]

Contact:
Julie M. Van Fleet
Voice:  619.276.0090
Email:   julie at cenic.org


CENIC BOARD APPOINTS NEW PRESIDENT

Cypress, CA  July, 1, 2004 ­ The Corporation for Education Network 
Initiatives in California (CENIC) has announced the selection of James 
Dolgonas to serve as its president.  Tom West, CENIC’s prior president left 
CENIC on June 30th to assume his new position as CEO of the National 
LambdaRail. CENIC, a not-for-profit consortium founded by California’s 
higher education community, is a global leader in the development and 
implementation of the next generation of network services.

With over 25 years of management and executive experience in all facets of 
higher education information technology, Dolgonas has the essential 
complement of skills and experience to work collaboratively and creatively 
with CENIC’s charter associates as well as state and national 
constituencies.  His university-wide project leadership in policy and 
strategic planning will be invaluable as CENIC enters into its eighth year 
of operation.  Dolgonas’ appointment begins July 1, 2004.

Most recently, Dolgonas was the chief operating officer of CENIC, a role 
that he will continue as President.  Prior to joining CENIC, he served as 
assistant vice president for information systems and computing in the 
Office of the President of the University of California system.

John Silvester, Chair of the CENIC Board of Directors, said, “When Jim 
joined CENIC as COO two years ago, he brought extensive experience in 
directing complex projects in the broad California education context. This 
has been invaluable to CENIC and the Board has utmost confidence that his 
expanded role will allow CENIC to continue to prosper as it moves forward 
with CalREN ­ the advanced multi-layer fiber-based network for the research 
and education community of California. Jim’s two years of CENIC experience 
will be of enormous benefit in navigating the inherently challenging 
environment that brings together higher education and K-12 communities, 
public and private research organizations, and government partners. This is 
a particularly exciting time for CENIC as the fiber backbone is fully 
operational and we are able to light additional waves enabling high-end 
research and network experiments as never before.”

ABOUT CENIC
CENIC is a not-for-profit corporation serving California Institute of 
Technology, California State University, Stanford University, University of 
California, University of Southern California, California Community 
Colleges and the statewide K-12 school system.  CENIC's mission is to 
facilitate and coordinate the development, deployment and operation of a 
set of robust multi-tiered advanced network services for this research and 
education community.

More information about CENIC can be found at www.cenic.org.