Mr Sisodraker has been Pivotal's chief financial officer since October 2001.

He previously spent 18 months as vice-president of corporate development at Pivotal. Before joining the firm, he worked at A.L.I. Technologies, which is part of health-care technology firm McKesson. A chartered accountant, Mr Sisodraker has also worked at KPMG and HSBC Investment Bank.

He will be based at Pivotal's headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mr Manning will be based at Orchestria.com's headquarters in New York.

NetEase

Ted Sun, acting chief executive and director of the mainland internet business, has returned from a four-month absence for medical reasons.

Mr Sun has been with the company since 1999, and became acting chief executive in 2001 when founder William Lei Ding stepped down. Mr Ding is currently chief architect at the firm. Mr Sun previously worked at Bear Stearns Asia from 1996 to 2000 and before that was an assistant director with Peregrine Capital.

With his return, Michael Tong, who had been running the firm with chief financial officer Denny Lee, will become chief operating officer. Mr Tong has been a director of Netease since 1999. A certified public accountant, he was previously an executive director of techpacific.com Venture Capital, Softbank China Venture Investments and the Nomura Group.

He has also worked in the investment banking department at Jardine Fleming Securities and was an auditor at Ernst & Young.

Applied Materials

David Wang has been promoted as president of chip equipment manufacturer Applied Materials Asia.

The company has also named group vice-president Russell Ellwanger as head of Applied Global Services (AGS), the services business which Mr Wang has spent the past year building.

Mr Wang was previously executive vice-president of Applied Materials. He has been with the company since 1980, spending much of that time in Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and China. Before taking over AGS, Mr Ellwanger was general manager of the company's Planarization Plating and Cleaning (PPC) group. He joined Applied Materials in Israel in 1996.

Honkong.com

The internet and mobile technology firm has asked Rudy Chan Kai-yu to return as its new chief executive.

Mr Chan, who is also chief executive of Chinadotcom Mobile Interactive Corporation, stepped down as Hongkong.com chief executive in January.

Before joining the dotcom group, he was founder and managing director of Bartercard Trade Exchange, and was managing director of Time Asia for eight years. He is also an independent director of Softbank Investment International (Strategic). Mr Chan was a founder and director in the Hong Kong operations of a global computerised barter trade exchange network that facilitates cashless transactions among its members.

He holds a master's degree in business administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a certified public accountant registered with the state of New York in the United States.

He replaces John Xiao, who resigned for personal reasons.

In addition, the company also announced the appointment of Albert Lam as chief operating officer. Mr Lam has spent 23 years in the technology industry in North America and greater China. He spent seven years with Motorola, where he became vice-president of Motorola Asia Pacific and general manager of the Taiwan PCS division.

He was the chief operating officer of Newpalm until December 2002, and also spent 10 years at Nortel.

Berkana Wireless

The wireless chip developer has recruited several new heads for its management team. The new executives include vice-president of marketing and product management Robert Fan, vice-president of operations Mike Choi and acting chief financial officer Shari Van Loo.

Mr Fan headed marketing of wireless network products at RF Micro Devices, and before that was vice-president of marketing at Resonext, which was bought by RFMD in 2002.

Earlier, he spent nine years at Intel, working for some of that time on Intel's Asia Pacific mobile business for 802.11, Bluetooth and mobile CPU/core logic products.

He has degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mr Choi joined the firm as director of operations and quality in 2002.

He has spent 25 years in the semiconductor industry. Before that, he was director of product/test engineering at Cypress Semiconductor's Timing Technology Division. He served as director of operations at IC Works and has also worked for Samsung Semiconductor USA and Intel. Mr Choi has a degree in electrical engineering from Portland State University. Ms Van Loo has been chief financial officer for technology companies such as Reconnex Corporation, Virtela Communications and Resonext. In her 17 years as an accountant, she has also worked with Legato Systems, National Semiconductor and Ernst & Young/ Arthur Young & Co.

Teletec

The telecommunications services firm has appointed Greg Hopkins as executive vice-president of business development.

Mr Hopkins was previously vice-president and general manager of global markets at Telwares Communications, a company that mediates negotiations between telecoms companies. Before that, he was executive vice-president of service outsourcing firm Virtela Communications, where he ran global sales.

He also worked as western region vice-president at AT&T Global Services, and was vice-president of corporate accounts at information technology consultancy Inacom Information Systems. Mr Hopkins has a degree in business administration and an executive MBA from the University of San Francisco.