Laura Tyson has joined the board of business process outsourcing (BPO) firm 24/7 Customer. Prof Tyson, who works at the University of California at Berkeley, is also a board member at Morgan Stanley, Eastman Kodak Company, and AT&T. 

Professor Tyson was the US president’s national economic adviser and architect of President Bill Clinton’s domestic and international policy agenda. She was the first woman to have chaired the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

●Text-message applications company Anam has hired Jote Bassi as he leaves T-Mobile. Mr Bassi, who was head of data applications, steps into the role of marketing director at the Dublin-based company. Before joining T-Mobile, Mr Bassi worked for UPS on projects such as the Atlanta Olympics. He has played hockey at National League standard alongside members of the 1988 Olympic gold-medal winning team.

“Sport and physical activity is a passion of mine,” he says. “I will always make time for it because I believe it helps me work better. And with a busy schedule it’s a good way to be able to focus some time on me.”

● Hewlett-Packard has hired a dean from the University of Illinois, Chicago, to work as director of its laboratories. Prith Banerjee, dean of the college of engineering, will also work as senior VP of research for the company.

Prof Banerjee replaces Richard H Lampman, who retires later this year after 35 years of service with HP. Prof Banerjee also founded AccelChip, a developer of software for building digital-signal processing systems, which was sold last year to Xilinx. Prof Banerjee will be based in Palo Alto.

● EQO Communications is to hire a former Google employee as its general manager of Europe. The mobile-internet-phone-services company has appointed Simon Edelstyn, who will be based in London but co-ordinating with offices in Canada. Mr Edelstyn has eight years of business development and general management experience in Europe, recently working for Google as director for syndication partnerships.

● Software company Misys has appointed Jim Malone to the board to work as chief financial officer from June. Mr Malone, who will earn a base salary of £265,000, replaces current finance director Howard Evans, who is to step down but help with the transition. The move comes as Misys announced it is to sell subsidiary company Sesame to Friends Provident.

● Linksys, the Cisco-owned company known for its consumer wireless routers, has made four recent appointments: Geraint Anderson becomes general manager of the service provider organisation; Craig Gledhill is to be VP of APAC; Vince Hassel is made CFO; and Steve Silva moves to VP of connected-home integration.