Amdahl Appoints Poehner Vice President of Business Solutions Group; Delivering Product Services, Consulting as an Integrated Package.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 1995--Amdahl Corporation today announced the appointment of Michael J. Poehner as vice president and general manager of the Amdahl Business Solutions Group (BSG BSG Battlestar Galactica BSG Broadband Stakeholder Group (UK) BSG British Society of Gastroenterology (London, UK) BSG Business Systems Group BSG Business Solutions Group BSG Basigin ). The Business Solutions Group was recently formed by Amdahl to integrate products, services, and consulting in response to the customer's need for a more complete solution. "This change brings the full range of Amdahl expertise to Amdahl customers -- from users of mainframes to open systems, cross-platforms, networking and applications software. With BSG, Amdahl response to customers' needs not only for solutions but for help with implementation," said Mr. Poehner. "For the future of enterprise computing, Amdahl combines the integrity of data center values and our unique base of experience." The recently formed BSG builds on Amdahl's 24-year experience with large-scale, high-performance information technology systems. Starting with the integrity and security of legacy systems, Amdahl has extended these industry standards to a range and mix of computer systems and software development solutions. "Michael Poehner's corporate experience spans early strategic roles 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) and recent successful management of the Amdahl East Area," said David B. Wright, vice president and general manager, Worldwide Field Operations. "In addition, he founded a successful television rating service company that he later sold to Maxwell Communications. The combination of corporate understanding and aggressive problem solving are the qualities that will lead Amdahl into the future." Prior to working for Amdahl, Mr. Poehner was with 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. where he was executive vice president for North American Sales and Service. Before Zenith, Mr. Poehner was senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and Service at Businessland where he was responsible for network management services and outsourced LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. operations. Mr. Poehner began his career with IBM as a systems engineer. He achieved management positions leading up to eastern regional manager and director of mid-range systems. Mr. Poehner has a degree in mathematics from Villanova and an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut is the State of Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 27,000 students on its six campuses, including more than 9,000 graduate students in multiple programs. UConn's main campus is in Storrs, Connecticut. . Amdahl Corporation (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :AMH AMH Abington Memorial Hospital (Abington, PA) AMH Anti-Müllerian Hormone AMH Australian Medicines Handbook AMH Automated Material Handling AMH Aviation Structural Mechanic (Hydraulics) US Navy Rating ) is a major supplier of large scale mainframe computers, UNIX systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and consulting services. Amdahl products are sold in more than 30 countries for use across all types of computing environments. CONTACT: Amdahl Corporation Patrick Carroll, 408/746-8240 patrick.carroll@amail.amdahl.com The Lekas Group Sandra Park, 415/948-8907 sandra@infoserv.com |
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