Avatar Announces Engineering Promotions.MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 1996--Avatar Systems Corp. announced today the promotion of Rex Hamilton to vice president of Engineering, and Vinay Agarwal to director of Engineering. Hamilton, previously vice president of Electrical Engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. , now has responsibility for all engineering activities. Hamilton reports to Tom Maher Tom Maher (born September 4, 1952 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a basketball coach from Australia, who is the most successful coach in the WNBL history, having won seven WNBL titles. He was WNBL Coach of the Year in 1987 and 1992, and is a Life Member of the WNBL. , executive vice-president worldwide operations and general manager. He joined Avatar form Conner Peripherals Conner Peripherals was a company that manufactured hard drives for personal computers. Conner Peripherals was founded in 1986 by Seagate Technology co-founder Finis Conner, as a merger between a company of his and another started by MiniScribe founders John Squires and Terry (since acquired by Seagate Technology (company) Seagate Technology - A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner. That name is on the original patents for the 5.25" hard disk drive. ) in March 1995. He replaces Aki Kumano, vice president of mechanical engineering, who resigned to pursue other business opportunities in Japan. Vinay Agarwal previously was manager electrical engineering. Agarwal joined Avatar in 1991 and was a member of the original engineering design team. "Rex's engineering team added additional performance enhancements to Avatar's product family, which have helped secure additional OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreements with two multi-billion dollar notebook suppliers," said Bancha Ongkosit, Avatar's chairman and president. Both OEMs will offer Avatar's removable cartridge removable cartridge n. A hard disk that has a self-contained casing, can be removed from the drive, and has greater storage capacity than floppy disks. disk drive as an option in their performance oriented notebooks, which will be formally launched at Comdex Fall in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nev., Nov. 18-22, 1996. One has already started shipments to their corporate customers. Avatar Systems Corp., headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., markets to OEMs worldwide the world's only high performance, high capacity removable cartridge disk drive featuring a 210MB palm-sized removable cartridge designed internally for the modular bay in sub-notebooks and notebooks. One 210MB removable cartridge can store over 145 1.44MB floppy diskettes of data. Disk drive performance of less than 12 msec access time and 2.1MB's p/second transfer rate is offered, delivering users full motion video capabilities. Avatar is privately owned with more than 400 employees worldwide and offices in Dallas, Milpitas, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. For additional information: http://www.avatarltd.com. CONTACT: Avatar Systems Corp., Milpitas Brian Ramos, 408/321-0110 |
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