Aonix Strengthens Management Team With New Senior Vice President of Marketing; Former VisiCom Executive Joins Company.Business Editors SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2000 Aonix announced today that it has further strengthened its management team with the appointment of Gene Kennon as senior vice president of marketing. Since 1990, Kennon has been corporate vice president of marketing and the Computer Products division's chief operations officer at VisiCom. Commenting on the announcement, Steve Yager, Aonix 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. , stated: "Gene brings to Aonix proven entrepreneurism and a thorough understanding of the business needs for our products and services. Gene will help accelerate the execution of Aonix's strategy for improving product and service value to our customers through strategic transactions, as well as migrating our products into the e-business world. "He is a seasoned marketing executive who has spent the bulk of his career in the areas of strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and business, branding and image development. Gene brings experience, expertise and business insight to our product and operational strategies." In his new role, Kennon will have full responsibility for Aonix product management and marketing, which includes its e-business enterprise Web reporting tool, UltraQuest(TM); its e-business visual modeling environment, Software through Pictures(R); its native and real-time development environment, ObjectAda(TM); and the new Java Development Environment (JADE(TM)). About Aonix Aonix is a leading international software company providing a comprehensive suite of products and services aimed at managing the complexity of today's business-critical application development and information management. The Aonix Lifecycle Solutions division provides a comprehensive suite of software development products that support the customer's development process, methods and tools. The result is minimized risk, improved developer productivity and increased software quality. The Information Access Management Solutions division provides products and services designed to dramatically simplify access and analysis of mainframe data. These solutions enable customers to adapt to the ever-changing requirements associated with enterprise data access and application development. Headquartered in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Aonix operates sales offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe in addition to a network of international distributors. More information about Aonix can be found on its Web site at www.aonix.com. If you would like to receive press releases via electronic mail, please contact the Corporate Communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. Department at marcom@aonix.com. Backgrounder Information - Q&A VisiCom has a successful history of product line growth rates Growth Rates The compounded annualized rate of growth of a company's revenues, earnings, dividends, or other figures. Notes: Remember, historically high growth rates don't always mean a high rate of growth looking into the future. of 50 percent per year as a result of the acquisitions of Vigra Inc, a provider of multimedia boards, and Antares Group Inc., a developer of military 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 boards, and with it's recent acquisition of Univision Technologies Inc., a premier supplier of image processing technology. The company's purchase of Microlithics Corporation, a manufacturing technologies company based in Colorado, provided the company with the ability to manufacture its own board products, helping improve time to market and product quality. VisiCom has expertise in spinning out companies, including ATMnet, an internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. located in San Diego, and its State of California Integrations Services division, which was purchased by SAIC SAIC - http://saic.com. in 1997. |
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