Business Doings

Harris Stratex searching for new CEO

Not a full year into his first job as CEO, Guy Campbell announced plans to retire from Harris Stratex Networks. The Durham company has begun searching for a successor.

Campbell will leave his job and $1.3 million annual pay package at the close of the company's fiscal year in June. Campbell, 61, became president and chief executive in January when the publicly traded company was created in a merger of Harris Corp.'s Microwave Communications division, of which Campbell was president, and Stratex Networks of San Jose, Calif.

The equipment supplier for the wireless communications industry employs 1,440 worldwide, including 170 in Durham. The company's customers in 135 countries include mobile network operators, public safety agencies, utilities and transportation companies.

Campbell joined the microwave communications division in Durham in 2003. He had worked for 25 years at Ericsson, including serving as vice president of Ericsson's Enterprise Wireless Networks.

Deals

Kenly-based Gladiator, which produces personal protective equipment and tactical gear for the U.S. military, received the Incumbent Workforce Development Training Grant from the N.C. Department of Commerce 2/3 Division of Workforce Development. The grant will provide education and training for its Johnston County area employees.

Micromass Communications, a Cary-based relationship marketing agency that specializes in health care, opened an office in Morristown, N.J.

Research Triangle Park-based Geomagic has a new version of its digital reconstruction software, Geomagic Studio 10. The new software features 3-D modeling.

The V Foundation for Cancer Research awarded Ian J. Davis of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center the 2007 Martin D. Abeloff Scholar Award, a $100,000, two-year grant.

Metabolon is collaborating with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases to use Metabolon's proprietary metabolomics platform to study the biochemical profiles of humans given the AVA anthrax vaccine.

The Research Triangle Regional Partnership teamed with Futures to provide an online platform, Pipeline, that matches community college talent with the work-force needs of growing companies and industries in the Research Triangle region.

The Durham Bulls and La Ley 96.9 FM are working on an initiative to attract members of the Triangle's Latin community to Durham Bulls baseball games in 2008. Details include a ticket window and stadium map at the box office with signs in Spanish and a bilingual hospitality team member for every game. The team's game day program, Play Ball, will feature a Fan's Guide to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Spanish.

Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina selected Cary-based S&A Cherokee as its public relations agency.

Peak 10, a data center operator and managed services provider, has a new client, the Center for Creative Leadership. Peak 10 provides CCL with managed co-location and reliable bandwidth out of its data center facility in Raleigh.

Communicopia Marketing Services moved to larger offices in the Hale Building at 135 S. White St. in downtown Wake Forest. Nancy Bolts has been hired as director of client services.

Scynexis and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative have collaborated on drug discovery research and development of therapies for human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness.

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Harvey Clewell, director for the Center for Human Health Assessment at the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, a $970,000 grant to help in developing research models that assess potential health effects of chemicals found in blood and other tissues.