AdvanSys Names 'Chet' Brown New President and CEO.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 1998--Chester A. 'Chet' Brown Jr. has been named by Advanced System Products Inc. (AdvanSys), to lead the company 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. . Brown was recruited by AdvanSys as part of a move to aggressively grow the manufacturing company which designs, manufactures and markets SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. (Small Computer System Interface) host adapters, software and integrated circuits. "We selected Chet to help us to make AdvanSys the leading manufacturer of I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output data storage products," said Dr. Peter Chen, chairman of the Board of Directors. "We have the products and the technical base. Now we look to his leadership to bring us the rest of the way." "AdvanSys is my kind of company," said Chet Brown. "It is poised to become number one in the field of SCSI and 1394 host adapters and ICs. I intend to take it there." Prior to this position, Brown was executive vice president at SyQuest Technology Inc., a company dedicated to removable cartridge hard disk drives, where he developed worldwide strategic alliances, channels and sales. Before SyQuest, he served as president and CEO of several semiconductor companies. From 1980 to 1990, he held many strategic marketing and management positions at Western Digital Corp. including president, CEO and member of the Board of Directors of Western Digital Imaging, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. . Brown's varied career experience in marketing and operations, all in high tech industries, bring a wealth of experience to his new position. Brown holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Boston University and completed graduate work at Northeastern University, Babson Institute, Bentley College and Stanford University. Brown assumed his new position June 1, 1998. About AdvanSys Advanced Systems Products Inc. (AdvanSys) designs, manufactures and markets SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) host adapters, software and integrated circuits. The heart of its SCSI products is the company's cost effective RISC processor. The processor optimizes computer system performance by reducing and/or eliminating CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. cycles otherwise employed in data transfers between system memory and SCSI devices. The AdvanSys ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. and PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). host adapters are fully compatible with Plug and Play standards, run under DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Windows 95, Novell NetWare, 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) OS/2, Apple System OS and a variety of UNIX operating systems. The northern California based company sells its products worldwide to resellers, system and PC integrators, and original equipment manufacturers. Visit AdvanSys on the World Wide Web at http://www.advansys.com.
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