The telecommunications company Integra, which relocated headquarters and hundreds of employees to Vancouver in 2013, has laid off an undisclosed number of workers from its operations department, the company confirmed on Wednesday.
The company provided no details about the layoffs, which were first reported by The Oregonian. Robert Guth, the company’s interim president and CEO, issued the following statement:
“We’ve eliminated several positions in our operations department, with each affected employee offered a severance package based on position and tenure. Our industry is changing rapidly and we are evolving aggressively with it. We continue to work to best align our resources with the needs and desires of our customers, and we see significant progress in our overall business performance.”
The Oregonian cited two unnamed former Integra employees familiar with this month’s layoffs who said as many as two-dozen employees lost their jobs. James McIntyre, a spokesman for Integra, said the company does not dispute The Oregonian’s account.
Integra has about 600 employees in Vancouver, including about 450 employees who relocated from Portland two years ago to the new company headquarters at 18110 S.E. 34th St., in Building One of the former Hewlett-Packard campus. The company generated $591.2 million in revenue during 2013; it has not released its 2014 revenues..
Guth, a longtime Integra board member, was appointed interim CEO last fall to replace Kevin O’Hara,who had been CEO since 2011. The company said at the time that the board was working with an executive search firm to identify a permanent CEO.
Under Guth’s interim leadership, the private company has made significant structural changes. In January, it reorganized to create two business units, the mid-market Integra Business and top market Electric Lightwave business unit. The Electric Lightwave name was a link to the history of the company, which began in 2006 in Vancouver as Electric Lightwave.
Dan Stoll, a 15-year employee of Integra, shifted in January from the position of the company’s senior vice president of strategy and development to become president of Electric Lightwave. In April, the company announced the hiring of two outside industry veterans to executive-level posts. Scot Oslund was named Electric Lightwave vice president and Christopher Camut was appointed president of Integra Business.
Integra provides communications and network services to businesses, government agencies and carriers across 35 cities in 11 states. Its private network includes 6,400 miles of long-haul fiber optic infrastructure and 3,000 miles of metro fiber.
