Tekelec CEO and leadership

Frank Plastina was appointed President and CEO of Tekelec in February 2006. He brings more than 19 years of senior executive and management experience in the telecommunications industry with companies including Proxim Corporation, Warburg Pincus LLC and Nortel Networks Corporation. Prior to joining Tekelec, Mr. Plastina was executive in residence at Warburg Pincus, where he was responsible for evaluating potential investments and providing executive support to its portfolio companies. Previously, Mr. Plastina was executive chairman of Proxim, a provider of Wi-Fi and broadband wireless access products. During Mr. Plastina’s 15-year career at Nortel, he held a series of executive-level positions in the company’s Wireless, Internet Service Providers, Signaling Solutions, Mergers & Acquisitions and Finance Groups. Most recently, he was president of Nortel’s multi-billion dollar Metro and Enterprise Networks business unit, in which he led the successful development and marketing of the company’s VoIP products to service providers, enterprises and government entities.

As senior vice president and general manager of Oracle Communications, Doug Suriano is responsible for managing strategic planning, product development, sales, service, and support for Oracle Communications products.

He joined Oracle in 2013 as vice president of products for Oracle Communications following the Tekelec acquisition. In this role, Suriano oversaw product development and product management for the network signaling and policy management product portfolio. At Tekelec, he served as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering. In these capacities he focused on developing Tekelec's solutions for the mobile broadband era. During his ten-year tenure, Suriano was responsible for product innovation, leadership in standards bodies and industry forums, and advocacy for innovative mobile data solutions. He successfully led initiatives to transition Tekelec from hardware-centric products to software-centric applications and to expand the market share of the company's data and voice solutions. Suriano also headed the development of Tekelec's Diameter Signaling Router (DSR), the first product of its kind sold to LTE network operators.

Prior to Tekelec, Suriano was the vice president of engineering at dynamicsoft, Inc. and chief information officer for QAD, Inc. Before QAD, he managed the information technology division for the United States Marine Corps.

Suriano earned an MS in information technology at the US Naval Postgraduate School and a BS at the US Naval Academy.

Pam Lease is a Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, BNS at TEKELEC and is based in North Carolina. She has worked as Controller at IES HOLDINGS, INC.; Consultant at Mindoro Software; and Practice Director, Esolutions at Serena Software. Pam studied at University of North Carolina at Asheville between 1984 and 1988.

Vince Lesch is a CTO at TEKELEC.