(EMAILWIRE.COM, May 21, 2001 ) Octave Communications, a pioneer in next-generation audio and multimedia conferencing infrastructure solutions, May 21 announced that David Goretski, former vice president and general manager, Communications Recording Systems, L&H/Dictaphone, of Newtown, Connecticut, has joined its senior management staff as vice president of North American sales and business development. In this role, Goretski is responsible for all sales and business development activities in North America. "We are very pleased that Dave has joined our executive team at this exciting time in our company's history," said Ron Elwell, CEO of Octave. "Dave comes to Octave with a proven track record in creating and executing effective sales strategies that help companies grow top-line revenue. He brings high-profile enterprise sales prowess to this role and his proven expertise in building a high-performance team will help us scale our business in North America." "I am tremendously impressed by Octave's success to date, the size of our market opportunity and the caliber of the management team and Board of Directors," said Goretski. "Octave is demonstrating real leadership in the collaboration and audio conferencing space through the deployment of its next-generation technology. I'm thrilled to join this experienced team and help drive the company's continued fast growth with the innovative Octave platform." Goretski brings to Octave an impressive track record of identifying, negotiating and closing strategic transactions in both the enterprise hardware/software industry and the service provider markets. In Goretski's position as senior vice president and general manager of L&H's Communications Recording Systems he had full profit and loss responsibility for the $80 million worldwide division. His responsibilities included sales and business development, product development, marketing and finance. He also held positions of vice president of sales for all L&H speech and language products and vice president of International Operations for Dictaphone where he managed the division from its London office. Throughout his career at L&H/Dictaphone, Goretski has consistently grown revenue and been responsible for identifying and establishing key strategic partnerships and alliances. About Octave Octave is delivering the next-generation audio and multimedia conferencing infrastructure. Octave's customers include carriers, service bureaus, CLECs, Internet telephony service providers (ITSPs), ASPs and enterprise customers across the globe. The company has established a new benchmark by delivering flexible, highly scalable platforms for voice and data conferencing over both circuit-switched and IP networks. Visit www.octavecomm.com for more information about the company and its products. Note to editors: Photos are available upon request. All company, brand, product, and service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.------------------------ Produced for OctaveCONTACT: Octave CommunicationsNancy Pieretti 603/328-6136npieretti@octavecomm.comBeth Winkowski978/649-7189bwinkowski@att.net------------------------

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