Alain Couder Names Rudolph Burger to Lead PBNEC's Global Technology Operations and Development.SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 1999--Rudolph E. Burger, a senior executive with Visioneer and an industry expert on digital imaging and technology development, has been named to the new position of executive vice president, technology, and chief technology officer (CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. ) for Packard Bell NEC (Packard Bell, The Netherlands, www.packardbell.com) A major PC manufacturer that is the consumer brand of NEC Computers International and the home computing market leader in the U.K. and much of Western Europe. on a global basis, effective immediately. Burger will report directly to Alain Couder, 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. , and will serve on the company's executive management team. Until his new appointment, Burger has been senior vice president, business development for Visioneer in Fremont, Calif., where he was responsible for product and IP licensing, strategic planning and business development. Visioneer is a leading producer of digital imaging equipment. Prior to joining Visioneer in 1995, Burger was vice president, software products for Xerox Desktop Document Systems, and before that, founder and president of Savitar, a provider of color calibration software and information services See Information Systems. for the desktop electronic imaging industry. Burger also has worked for Data Translation in Massachusetts; Camtrel Computer Systems in Cambridge, U.K.; and 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) at its Watson Research Center in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . "We are fortunate to have someone with Rudy Burger's accomplished blend of engineering and leadership skills join Packard Bell NEC," commented Couder. "Rudy also has finely developed strategic thinking skills and has proven time and again that he not only can envision the future, but help bring make it a reality. He shares my belief that to regain the leadership of our industry requires that Packard Bell NEC bring to market truly innovative products and services that offer compelling and superb value to our customers. To do this well we need someone with his background--a person who has shown he can manage as well in entrepreneurial settings as in large companies." Burger earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering at Yale University, and his Ph.D. at Cambridge University in the U.K. He has written more than two dozen papers on digital imaging, and two books on digital photography. About Packard Bell NEC, Inc. Based in Sacramento, Calif., privately held Packard Bell NEC, Inc. is the number-five supplier of personal computers worldwide. The company designs, manufactures and markets a broad range of desktop, notebook and mobile computers and network servers under the Packard Bell, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. and Zenith Data Systems Zenith Data Systems (ZDS) was a division of Zenith founded in 1979 after Zenith acquired Heathkit, who had, at that time, recently entered the personal computer market. Zenith sold personal computers under both the Heath/Zenith and Zenith Data Systems names. brands. Packard Bell NEC's major manufacturing operations are in Sacramento; Angers, France; Livingston, Scotland; Manaus, Brazil; and Penang, Malaysia. For more information on Packard Bell NEC, visit www.packardbell.com |
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