Franklin Telecom Names Chief Financial Officer

Franklin Telecom of Westlake Village has named Thomas Russell, 45, as chief financial officer and director.

The company also announced the appointment of Robert S. Harp, 59, as a director of FTC and FNet, a subsidiary of Franklin Telecom.

Russell, a CPA, has experience working with the Securities and Exchange Commission on initial public offerings of stock. This is his second time serving Franklin Telecom as chief financial officer, a position he first held in 1988.

In 1990, he established Russell Industries, where he served as president.

Harp holds an undergraduate degree in physics from MIT and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is chairman and founder of Quesant Instruments, which manufactures scanning probe microscopes.