ADLINK Technology Names First Chief Technology Officer.IRVINE Irvine, town, Scotland Irvine (ûr`vĭn), town (1991 pop. 32,507), North Ayrshire, SW Scotland, on the Irvine River estuary. Industries include iron and brass foundries. Other products are chemicals, electric goods, and clothing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2002 Fast Emerging PC-Based Industrial Computer Company Selects Former Motorola Executive and Current Chairman of PICMG An industry consortium that develops specifications for backplanes and interconnects for electronic equipment in the industrial and telecom fields. It was founded in 1994 as the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, hence the acronym. 3.0 Committee to Lead its R&D Team ADLINK Technology Inc., the leading manufacturer of PC-based industrial computers for measurement, automation, and communication, today announced the appointment of Jeff Munch munch - To transform information in a serial fashion, often requiring large amounts of computation. To trace down a data structure. Related to crunch and nearly synonymous with grovel, but connotes less pain. Often confused with mung. to the position of chief technology officer. Filling the company's first ever CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. position, Munch brings a wealth of technical knowledge and experience to ADLINK's management team. Munch will be based in the company's Monterey, Calif. office and will head all R&D operations in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Asia. In his new role, Munch will be responsible for building ADLINK's presence throughout the world, and for expanding relationships with key American OEMs and the global open architecture supplier community. "I am excited to have someone of Jeff's caliber join ADLINK as CTO," said Jim Liu, chief executive officer of ADLINK Technology. "Jeff will lead the expansion of ADLINK's technology capabilities and provide the guidance and insight needed to energize en·er·gize v. en·er·gized, en·er·giz·ing, en·er·giz·es v.tr. 1. To give energy to; activate or invigorate: "His childhood our development and ensure that we have both the technical staff and exceptional leading-edge technology to create new opportunities for our company, as well as our rapidly growing client base." Munch brings more than 20 years of hardware design, software development, and engineering resource management experience to ADLINK. Before joining the company, Munch spent five years at Motorola Computer Group as director of engineering. Previously, Munch spent nine years and was vice president of engineering at Pro-Log, where he was instrumental in building and leading the company's engineering force and technical direction. About ADLINK Technology ADLINK Technology is a leading manufacturer of high-performance, high-quality PC-based add-on A purchase of additional goods before payment is made for goods already purchased. An add-on may be covered by a clause in an installment payment contract that allows the seller to hold a security interest in the earlier goods until full payment is made on the later goods. cards for tests, measurement, automation and process control industries. ADLINK is also quickly emerging as a leader in industrial computing computing - computer products, with innovative Passive Backplane A backplane that adds no processing in the circuit. See backplane. and CompactPCI platforms. ADLINK products are marketed globally through direct sales offices for OEM/ODM customers and an extensive network of worldwide sales channels. The company has more than 50% of its employees in research and development in the following product groups: -- Automation: Motion controllers in PCI/CPCI form factors and open I/O systems technology for high-speed real-time control applications. -- Test And Measurement: NuDAQ Series of ISA/PCI/cPCI Data Acquisition and communication I/O cards, NuDAM series of remote Data Acquisition Modules and DAQBench 32-Bit Active X Controls for Visual Programming and control. -- Computer And Communication: CompactPCI and PXI computing platforms in both 3U and 6U form factors and NuPRO series of PICMG Single Board Computers in Half and Full size versions. |
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