@Road Announces Executive Management Promotions.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2003 @Road(R) (Nasdaq:ARDI ARDI Association Rwandaise pour la Promotion du Développement Intégré (French) ARDI Accounts Receivable Dollar Inventory ARDI Action Rwandaise pour le Developpement Integre ARDI Annually Renewable Disability Income ), a leading provider of location-enhanced wireless Internet services for mobile resource management (MRM MRM Marketing Resource Management MRM Mobile Resource Management MRM Metabolic Response Modifiers MRM Multiple Reaction Monitoring (mass spectrometry) MRM Mormonism Research Ministry MRM Mechanically Recovered Meat ), today announced executive management promotions and a new appointment. They are: -- Tom Allen For other persons of the same name, see Thomas Allen. Thomas H. (Tom) Allen (April 16 1945– ) is a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Maine's At-large congressional district (map). He is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2008. , promoted to chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. and executive vice president; -- Linda Standen, promoted to chief marketing officer and senior vice president; and -- Alan Park Alan Park (born in Scarborough, Ontario) is a Canadian comedian and political satirist best known for his appearances on the Royal Canadian Air Farce. Alan gives Toronto centric leftist commentary on current events. , appointed to the newly-created position of chief sales officer. Mr. Allen will continue to manage the @Road technology infrastructure, service delivery and customer satisfaction functions. Additionally, he will expand his management of day-to-day corporate operations, enabling Krish Panu, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of @Road, to increase his focus on large customer relations, strategic initiatives and realizing opportunities for rapid growth. Ms. Standen will continue to manage the company's marketing and solutions development efforts. Additionally, she will expand her role to include managing customer training and wireless carrier relationships. Mr. Park is responsible for all @Road sales channels, sales operations, sales development and professional services. Mr. Park brings over 22 years of sales, professional services and management experience to @Road. He was most recently the president and CEO of Praxid, a provider of hosted business management applications, including enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) and customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ). Prior to that, from 1980 to 2000 Mr. Park held vice president, general manager and other positions at Compaq, Sybase, Digital and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . "I am very pleased to announce these promotions and welcome Alan to our team," commented Mr. Panu. "As we continue to add large customers to our subscriber base, our ability to meet their demanding needs and provide world-class support has become one of our competitive advantages. To strengthen that advantage, we are assembling key customer functions under Alan. Moreover, today's management promotions reflect our belief that @Road is tracking to the break-away leadership position in mobile resource management." These executives report directly to Mr. Panu. David Satterwhite, senior vice president, will leave the company at the end of the quarter to pursue other interests. About @Road @Road (Nasdaq:ARDI) is a leading provider of mobile resource management (MRM) services, a rapidly growing category of productivity solutions integrating location technologies, wireless communications, transaction processing, software applications and the Internet to help companies better manage mobile workers. Any size organization, in any industry or public sector, in which improving the productivity of mobile workers has an impact on revenue, expenses, customer service and competitive advantage, will benefit from @Road MRM services. Because @Road offers MRM services on a hosted basis, customers avoid expensive and complex software and IT infrastructure investments. Since @Road delivers services using a pay-as-you-go subscription model, customers experience an immediate and measurable return-on-investment. @Road delivers its MRM services to over 90,000 mobile workers in North America every day. The company has headquarters in Fremont, Calif., and secure networked data centers on both U.S. coasts. For more information, visit the @Road web site at www.atroad.com. @Road is a registered trademark of At Road, Inc. Montrosetrave |
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