HARRY D. GATANAS TO LEAD METROMEDIA FIBER NETWORK'S GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS UNIT BUSINESS EDITORS NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FEB. 5, 2002--METROMEDIA FIBER NETWORK (MFN) (NASDAQ: MFNX), THE LEADING
08:47 ET NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2002--Metromedia Fiber Network
(MFN) (Nasdaq: MFNX.Q), the leading provider of digital communications
infrastructure solutions, has appointed former Major General Harry D.
Gatanas president, Government Operations.
Mr. Gatanas will be responsible for growing MFN's government
business, including all sales, operations and business development
functions related to servicing the company's government customers.
Mr. Gatanas brings more than 30 years of extensive experience
working with large government acquisitions. Prior to joining MFN, he
completed a distinguished career in the United Stated Army, serving in
a myriad of positions where he was responsible for programming,
planning, budgeting and execution oversight of several hundred major
weapons systems.
For the last two years, Mr. Gatanas served as the National
Security Agency's Senior Acquisition Executive, where he was charged
to oversee and reform the Agency's multi-billion dollar acquisition
process and was responsible for changing the way the NSA does
business. His key accomplishments while at the NSA include
TRAILBLAZER, the precedent-setting program that provides analytic
capabilities to meet the challenge of rapidly evolving, modern
telecommunications, and GROUNDBREAKER, a more than $2 billion
government-industry partnership for non-mission-critical Information
Technology that serves as a benchmark for other federal agencies.
Prior to the NSA, Mr. Gatanas held several high-level contracting
positions within the Department of Defense before becoming the U.S.
Army's key staff officer for weapons system acquisition at the
Pentagon in 1996.
"Harry's government experience will be invaluable to MFN as we
expand our product offerings and deepen our penetration into the
government services arena," said Mark Spagnolo, president and chief
executive officer, Metromedia Fiber Network. "He will lead our charge
to develop new services for this market, enabling MFN to deliver on
its promise to be the leading single-source provider of digital
communications infrastructure and bandwidth to government, enterprise
and carrier customers." |
