Aventail Appoints Lucent Executive John Drew to Board of Directors.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2000 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. of Lucent's Network Care Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. Division to Add Expertise and Vision to Aventail's Leading Role in the Extranet Service Provider Space Aventail Corporation, a recognized leader in building and managing business partner networks, today announced that John Drew has joined Aventail's board of directors. Drew is executive vice president and CEO of Lucent Technologies' NetworkCare Professional Services group, a portfolio of network professional services and software solutions, and former CEO of International Network Services (INS INS abbr. 1. Immigration and Naturalization Service 2. International News Service Noun 1. INS ), the world's largest independent network consulting and software provider, prior to its acquisition by Lucent in October 1999. Drew will contribute to Aventail's growing role as a leader in the emerging market that the META Group has identified as "Extranet Service Providers," or "ESPs." Providers in the ESP (1) (Enhanced Service Provider) An organization that adds value to basic telephone service by offering such features as call-forwarding, call-detailing and protocol conversion. market enable corporations to quickly activate and manage online partnerships between companies and their customers, suppliers and partners. Current Aventail Board members include Dan Lynch, owner of Lynch Enterprises, who also sits on the Boards of Exodus Communications Exodus Communications was a high-flying internet hosting and service provider to dot-com businesses that went broke along with their customers. Exodus inception Exodus was founded in 1992 as Fouress, Inc., and reincorporated in 1994 to Exodus Communications. , Covad Communications, CyberCash, Maxager Technology, DataChannel, Hynomics, and eLiren.com; Dave Pool, founder of the XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Fund and chairman of DataChannel; and Gus Tai, general partner with Trinity Ventures and Board member of Cymerc Exchange, FitLinxx, iMotors, and TrueSpectra. "Enterprises are increasingly dependent on a new breed of service provider that enables productive, flexible, interactive Internet-based partnerships that give organizations a true competitive advantage," stated Drew. "Aventail has established itself as a leader of this new breed, with substantial experience in the rapid activation and management of business partner networks and fundamentally improving the way business is done. I'm excited to be a part of this organization." Bringing Over 15 Years of Service Experience Drew currently serves as the executive vice president and CEO of Lucent Technologies' NetworkCare Professional Services group. The group combines resources from the former Ascend, Lucent and INS organizations. The group includes over 5,500 consultants, engineers and managers that help customers build and operate complex, integrated networks worldwide. Prior to joining Lucent, Drew was president and CEO of INS. Before joining INS, Drew was vice president and general manager at Unisys Corporation (company) Unisys Corporation - The company formed in 1984-5 when Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation. This was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined. , where he was responsible for the Network Enable Systems Integration Business. Throughout his ten-year career at Unisys, he held various positions in general management, finance, marketing and sales, and was instrumental in creating one of the largest network integration businesses in 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. . He also sits on the boards of LinuxCare and Opus360. "John brings to the Board a wealth of experience from his tenure at INS and Lucent, having built one of the most successful professional services organizations in the world," stated Evan Kaplan, president and CEO of Aventail Corporation. "His expertise within the services industry will be a great asset to us as we continue our efforts to make B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business dialtone a reality for enterprises worldwide." About the Aventail.Net Service Aventail.Net is the first fully managed service to rapidly activate Internet-based business partner networks. It is designed for progressive enterprises that need to manage large, dynamic partner communities, require comprehensive Service Level Agreements, and on-demand deployment. The Aventail.Net service handles all aspects of a business partner network -- from the support of users and underlying infrastructure to the enforcement of policy -- so that corporations can focus on core competencies and business strategies. About Aventail Aventail is a foremost provider of Internet-based business partner networks. The company serves more than 300 leading corporations, including half of the Fortune 10. Enterprises such as Aetna, Bear Stearns The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. (NYSE: BSC) is the parent company of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., one of the largest global investment banks and securities trading and brokerage firms in the world. , Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, 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 Xerox rely on Aventail to provide their foundation for scalable business-to-business collaboration. In addition to being a pioneer in the emerging Extranet Service Provider market, Aventail has received industry praise from Arthur Andersen For the U.S. Supreme Court case commonly known as Arthur Andersen, see . Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (the other four are PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG), performing , Computerworld, Giga Information Group, Infoworld, International Data Corporation, Network Computing, and Open System Advisors. Aventail Corporation is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Seattle, Washington. For more information on the company and its managed service, please contact the company directly at 206/215-1111, 877-AVENTAIL, info@aventail.com, or visit Aventail's Web site at www.aventail.com. Aventail and Aventail.Net are registered trademarks of Aventail Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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