Acacia Research Corp. makes announcement.PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1997--Acacia Research Corp. (NASDAQ/NMS:ACRI) Tuesday announced the election of Rigdon Currie to the board of directors of one of its majority-controlled subsidiaries, CombiMatrix Corp. Currie currently serves on the board of directors of QMS (1) (Minolta-QMS, Inc., Mobile, AL) A manufacturer of laser printers founded in 1977 by Jim Busby. Initially involved with controllers for printing bar codes and labels, it entered the laser printer business in the mid-1980s and set numerous records. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange ) and Wonderware Corp. (NASDAQ/NMS), among others. Currie is also a special limited partner of MK Global Ventures and a former general partner of Pacific Ventures Partners. Prior to this, Currie was the vice president of sales and marketing of Xerox Data Systems, the vice president of sales and marketing of Diablo Systems, and a regional manager of TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc Inc. He holds a bachelors of industrial engineering from Georgia Tech and received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. . "The addition of Mr. Currie following the appointment last month of Mr. Mark Edwards has considerably strengthened the board of directors," stated Paul Ryan, chief executive officer of Acacia Research Corp. "Mr. Currie's distinguished career in venture capital and experience in guiding the development of high technology companies will be extremely valuable to CombiMatrix." CombiMatrix is developing new technologies intended to represent significant improvements over current technologies in the field of drug discovery. The company has demonstrated preliminary feasibility of its core technologies and is currently developing a working prototype to automate its proprietary technologies. Acacia Research Corp. (ACRI) is a diversified capital management company with interests in several enterprises -- Whitewing Labs Inc. (direct marketer of nutritional supplements Nutritional Supplements Definition Nutritional supplements include vitamins, minerals, herbs, meal supplements, sports nutrition products, natural food supplements, and other related products used to boost the nutritional content of the diet. ), MerkWerks Corp. (software development), Soundview Technologies Inc. (V-chip technology), CombiMatrix Corp. (drug discovery technology), Greenwich Information Technologies LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (video and audio-on-demand technology), and private investment advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal . CONTACT: Kathryn King-Van Wie, 818/449-6431 |
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