PITTSBURGH -- Tollgrade Communications, Inc.(NASDAQ:TLGD)announced that telecom marketing and sales veteran Robert King has joined the company as Executive Director, Business Development. King joins Tollgrade from Sunrise Telecom where he was most recently President and General Manager of Sunrise's Broadband Products Group. Rob King brings to Tollgrade more than 23 years of experience in the telecom test and measurement market.

Most recently, Rob King spent the past decade at Sunrise Telecom where he successfully led the company's selling efforts in North America followed by his role in general management of its Broadband Products Group since 2006. In his most recent role, King is responsible for leading Sunrise's engineering and marketing efforts to bring new test and measurement products and services to the marketplace, including its next generation triple and quad-play solutions. Prior to Sunrise, King was a Regional Sales Manager for Ameritec Corporation where he was the top sales producer for nine consecutive years.

"We're pleased that Rob King is now a part of Tollgrade's strategic business development efforts where he will work closely with our sales and marketing teams on customer acquisition and retention as well as our partnership programs," said Joseph Ferrara, Tollgrade's President and CEO. "Rob is well known among key customers throughout the industry and we look forward to benefitting from his customer focus and technical expertise," added Ferrara.

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