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William Everett Joins Poole College as Executive in Residence

William H. Everett, former executive vice president and chief financial officer of Tekelec, has been named an executive-in-residence at the North Carolina State University Poole College of Management, announced Ira R. Weiss, dean of NC State’s Poole College.

Everett, who moved to the Raleigh, N.C., area from Boston in 2005, said he finds the culture at NC State and the Poole College of Management to be “a good fit” for his background, which includes 30-plus years of senior level management as well as technology-based entrepreneurship.

“Since my retirement from Tekelec, I have been looking for a way to give back,” he said. “I look forward to meeting and talking with the students serving as a guest lecturer at Poole College and its Jenkins Graduate School of Management, and providing a conduit to the business community,” Everett said.

“On behalf of the faculty, I welcome Bill to the college and very much appreciate his interest in being part of our academic community. His expertise in finance, accounting, IT, mergers and acquisitions, and business strategy should add tremendous value to Poole College,” Weiss said.

While at Tekelec – from October 2004 until his retirement in April 2010 – Everett was responsible for all aspects of finance, information technology, corporate development and oversight of the company’s private investments. In late 2005 and early 2006, he also served as acting chief executive officer of the company.

Everett had joined Tekelec following its acquisition of Steleus in October 2004, where he also was executive vice president and CFO, with responsibilities for worldwide finance and administrative functions.

Prior to that, he was the vice president of finance and administration and CFO of Chemfab Corporation, a publicly traded polymer sciences company. Everett also held executive operating and financial management positions at several high technology companies, including Epsilon Data Management, Eastman Software and Wang Software.

Earlier in his career, he co-founded Maps a la Carte, an internet mapping and spatial data company, in which was sold in a successful exit for investors.

Everett joins four other executives in residence at NC State’s Poole College: Ron Doggett; Ernest Roessler; and Sam Straight. Everett lives in Raleigh, N.C.