APAQ names Shabazian as CEO.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1995--Ming Hsu, Chairman of APAQ APAQ Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Technology Incorporated, a major personal computer systems manufacturer, based in Fremont, is announcing the appointment of Michael Shabazian as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Ming Hsu founded APAQ Technology Inc., formerly known as ASINA, in January 1992. Hsu's mission was to develop an efficient system integration operation 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. , including establishing and building strategic relationships with key component suppliers worldwide to offer cutting-edge systems at the best price, performance and value. The appointment of Michael Shabazian as President 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. of APAQ brings much promise to the future and continued success of APAQ. Shabazian has a strong and successful 25 year history in the PC business starting in 1970 with eleven years at 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) in various sales, marketing and management positions. With notable history of sales and marketing success, Shabazian joined Computerland, a franchised computer retail chain located in Oakland, Calif., as president, Shabazian was key in leading the company from $250 million to $1.2 billion during his three-year tenure. With the tremendous success of Computerland underway, Shabazian left Computerland and founded Abaton Technology. As Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Abaton, Shabazian set out to establish market presence in high technology image scanners for the Apple Computer line of products, successfully growing the company in excess of $20 million over a short period of time. Prior to Shabazian's appointment at APAQ, Shabazian was President and COO of Intelligent Electronics (IE), and more recently, Vice Chairman of IE headquartered in Exton, Pa. While at IE, Shabazian was responsible for worldwide operations of the company and the key architect of their successful integration and growth to a $2 billion distribution company. "Mike brings to APAQ significant experience in all operational aspects of the systems business," said Chairman Ming Hsu, "his previous leadership in operations, sales, marketing and customer service will be key to our advancement and continued success. Through Mike's leadership, we intend to promote a sense of urgency in terms of responsiveness to our customers' requirement, and increase the value and quality of our products and services." Shabazian's immediate focus will be on increasing the efficiencies of APAQ's operations, responsiveness to customer requirements, and timeliness to market. APAQ Technology Inc. is a major 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 systems integration manufacturer located in Fremont, Calif. APAQ's 80,000 square foot system integration facility is fully equipped with an automated manufacturing line capable of producing 30,000 systems a month. APAQ provides FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. and UL/CUL certification and is an approved Novell Certification Novell provides certification for technical competence with self-study tests and courses given at National Authorized Education Centers (NAECs). The earlier Enterprise CNE (ECNE), which included WAN expertise, was replaced with the Master CNE, which itself expires in mid-2007. Lab with Novell Certification Alliance (NCA (Network Computing Architecture) An architecture from Oracle for developing applications within a networked computing environment. It provides a three-tier distributed environment based on CORBA that uses program components known as "cartridges. ) status. In addition to APAQ's OEM business, a branded line of computing computing - computer products is distributed through its subsidiary Columbia Advanced Systems Corporation, also of Fremont, Calif. The Columbia branded systems include the Patriot, Titan and Elite Series based on Intel Pentium Processors. CONTACT: APAQ Technology Inc. Penny Morioka, 510/226-7800 Ext. 307 |
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