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Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

Skype snags chief technology strategist from Cisco

By | November 9, 2009, 2:28am PST

Summary: Skype said it has named Jonathan Rosenberg as its chief technology strategist.

Skype said Monday that it has named Jonathan Rosenberg as its chief technology strategist.

The move comes shortly after Skype settled a distracting legal spat with the co-founders of the company, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.

Rosenberg most recently was a fellow at Cisco and directed strategy for the company’s enterprise voice portfolio (statement). Rosenberg is well schooled in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), which serves as Skype’s bridge to the enterprise.

The move to hire Rosenberg sheds some light on Skype’s master plan, which is to become a larger enterprise player. Don’t be surprised if Skype bridges into more collaboration applications as it builds out its corporate presence.

Rosenberg will report to Daniel Berg, Skype’s CTO.

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

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