AnywhereYouGo.com Names Board of Directors.Business Editors DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 2000 AnywhereYouGo.com (www.AnywhereYouGo.com), the leading independent resource devoted exclusively to wireless application development and deployment, has announced its Board of Directors. Company 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 founder Lee Wright, chairman, is joined by AnywhereYouGo.com chief financial officer Steve Nix and three outside directors. The AnywhereYouGo.com board includes: Ed Tobin, co-founder, Driveway Corporation Gretchen Wyman, managing principal, Brience Strategic Venture Fund Keyur Patel, co-founder/executive vice president, Brience Inc. Lee Wright, founder/CEO, AnywhereYouGo.com Steve Nix, chief financial officer, AnywhereYouGo.com AnywhereYouGo.com was launched in February 2000 and is today the most widely used independent resource for wireless developers and decision makers, reaching an audience in more than 85 countries. With offices in Dallas, London, Stockholm and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , AnywhereYouGo.com provides tools, training, application testing application testing - system testing and monitoring, and career services that span the application development and deployment process chain. In June, the company received $4 million in first-round funding from Brience and internet.com Venture Partners III. "The board brings together professionals with strong technical and financial backgrounds who have hands-on experience launching and building successful Web-based service businesses," said Mr. Wright. "They are actively involved in strategy, helping create opportunities for growth and guiding us through our second round of financing." The directors and their qualifications are described below: Ed Tobin is an engineer and entrepreneur, who co-founded Driveway Corporation, an advanced web-based storage company, that has more than five million members and over 40 industry-leading partners. As co-founder, Mr. Tobin has devised a revolutionary strategy that positioned Driveway's product as an integration platform for e-businesses. Throughout his career, he has worked on six continents Six Continents is a large retail PLC in UK which split into Six Continents Retail known as Mitchells and Butlers plc. The hotels and soft drinks business of Six Continents PLC is now known as InterContinental Hotels Group PLC. in his capacity as consultant for start-ups and multinationals such as General Motors, Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. Japan, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Hewlett-Packard and Sony. Gretchen Wyman is in charge of merger and acquisition activities for Brience's Strategic Venture Fund. Brience, Inc., a next-generation wireless solutions provider, is a leading investor in AnywhereYouGo.com. Prior to joining Brience, Ms. Wyman managed an investment fund and developed merger and acquisition strategies at KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen Consulting. Her financial management experience includes strategy consulting in the telecommunications sector at San Francisco Consulting Group and investment banking at Morgan Stanley Keyur Patel developed e-business strategies for KPMG Consulting before co-founding Brience. At KPMG, he founded and served as the CEO of Metrius, 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. that delivered next generation e-business solutions. Prior to KPMG, Mr. Patel co-founded PSI Ltd., an internet company that was later acquired by a Canadian conglomerate. For a number of years, Mr. Patel served as Chief Architect at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He recently authored the McGraw Hill book, "Digital Transformation," targeted to Global 1000 enterprises. Lee Wright has played a leading role in the formation and growth of Internet businesses since 1994, and co-founded a number of successful start-ups, including AnywhereYouGo.com's predecessor, People / Design / Technology, an Internet business and technology strategy boutique. Earlier, he co-founded a company that is now a part of Luminant and later led the acquisition and alliances effort of a global interactive agency which exists today as part of Agency.com. Mr. Wright has been invited to share his vision at Internet World, PCIA's GlobalXchange, Pervasive Computing, @d:tech, and other executive forums. Steve Nix has played a significant role in every aspect of AnywhereYouGo.com's growth, including international expansion to London and Stockholm and closing the first round of venture funding. Mr. Nix has a successful track record in financial planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against for Pulte Corporation, the largest homebuilder in the U.S., and money management for 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 General Motors at Smith Breeden Associates, a money management firm. About AnywhereYouGo.com AnywhereYouGo.com is the most widely-used independent resource dedicated to the development and deployment of wireless applications, including WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. , Bluetooth, i-Mode, SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. , PDAs and other handheld devices, and GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. and 3G. AnywhereYouGo.com helps meet the challenges developers and business decision makers face throughout the development and deployment process: -- Building the business case--Profiles and case studies as well as wireless application, business and technology news reaches more than 85 countries through AnywhereYouGo.com's site and newsletters. -- Staffing--AnywhereYouGo.com's Wireless Career Center is the largest jobs area on the Web dedicated to experienced wireless developers and IT professionals. -- Training--Tutorials, white papers, and technical documentation. -- Developing--Tools, developer discussions, and directories of wireless applications, developers, and devices. -- Testing--Application testing through labs in London and Dallas and code validation through online tools -- Deploying and monitoring--Application monitoring services for carriers, portals, and application providers. AnywhereYouGo.com's customers include carriers, gateway and device manufacturers, portals, application developers, and content and commerce sites in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. AnywhereYouGo.com has offices in San Francisco, Dallas, London, and Stockholm. The company is privately held; investors include Brience and internet.com Venture Partners III, part of the affiliated venture capital arm of internet.com Corporation (Nasdaq:INTM INTM Interrupt Mode ). For more information about AnywhereYouGo.com, see http://www.AnywhereYouGo.com. |
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