ADIC Announces New General Counsel; Perkins Coie Partner Joins Storage Leader.Business Editors, Technology Writers REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 2001 Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) today announced that Linda Schoemaker has joined the company as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Most recently Schoemaker was a partner and member of the Executive Committee at Perkins Coie Perkins Coie is an influential law firm based in Seattle, Washington. The firm is number 86 on the list of the world's largest law firms by 2006 revenue and is listed as number 64 on the Fortune Magazine "100 Best Places to Work in America 2007. LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , a leading international law firm of more than 525 attorneys. While at Perkins Coie, Schoemaker practiced in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital, and her clients included ADIC, AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. Corporation, Itron, Inc., and Visio Corporation Visio Corporation was a software company based in Seattle, Washington. Its principal product was a diagramming application software of the same name. It was acquired by Microsoft and is now in a division of that company, which continues to develop the application under the name , as well as other public and private technology-based companies. "Linda Schoemaker brings a critical set of skills and experience to the ADIC team," commented Peter van Oppen, ADIC chairman and 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. . "She will play a crucial role as the Company continues to expand both through internal growth and through mergers, acquisitions, and new strategic partnerships. Together these initiatives are helping ADIC become one of the primary suppliers of a new set of intelligent open systems storage solutions designed to make the job of managing data easier for the world's IT departments." "During the seven years I have worked with ADIC as its outside general counsel, the Company has continually proven itself to be one of the most innovative and consistently successful companies in the storage industry," commented Schoemaker. "Not only has ADIC grown its traditional business, but it has expanded its product line to higher value-add positions, developed strong OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and relationships, and added innovative software technology. I am especially excited to be joining ADIC at this time, as it continues expand its role as a supplier of intelligent storage solutions." About ADIC With more than 80,000 automated tape libraries installed, innovative storage management software, Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, and Network Attach Storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) appliances, ADIC is the world's leading device-independent storage solutions provider to the open systems marketplace. The Company offers a broad range of products designed to help organizations stay more productive by making it easier for them to store, protect, manage and use their rapidly growing network data. ADIC's industry-leading line of automated storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers and OEM partners, including Dell, 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) and Fujitsu Siemens. Further information about ADIC is available at http://www.adic.com. ADIC is a registered trademark of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. All other product or service marks mentioned in this release should be considered the property of their respective owners. |
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