Avistar Names Robert Habig Chief Financial Officer.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2001 Avistar Communications Corporation (Nasdaq:AVSR (Audio Visual Speech Recognition) Using lip reading software to enhance speech recognition. In noisy environments where a camera can be included, AVSR improves the computer's ability to recognize the speaker's words by visually tracking lip movement and ), the leading provider of enterprise video communication solutions, today announced the appointment of Robert J. Habig as chief financial officer. Habig will oversee financial operations for Avistar and will report directly to Gerald J. Burnett, chairman and chief executive officer. "We are excited to have Bob join our management team," said Burnett. "He is a seasoned executive with significant experience and a demonstrated record of accomplishment in the areas of financial management, systems management, administration and corporate strategy. Bob's understanding of both small, rapidly growing companies and larger enterprises is very valuable for the expansion of Avistar." Habig has more than 20 years of progressive experience in several industries, including technology, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , consumer products, manufacturing and distribution. He spent 15 years in a variety of positions at PepsiCo, Inc., including vice president of information technology for Pepsi - 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 vice president finance and chief financial officer of Pepsi-Cola Company - South. After leaving PepsiCo, Habig was also vice president of finance and systems for the Business Services unit of AlliedSignal Corporation and served as executive vice president of finance and administration and as chief financial officer for the Electronic Funds Services division of First Data Corporation. Habig most recently was chief financial officer of think3, Inc., a private, venture backed software company. He holds an M.B.A. from the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester The University of Rochester (UR) is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian research university located in Rochester, New York. The university is one of 62 elected members of the Association of American Universities. , and a B.A. from Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private coeducational liberal arts college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The school, founded in 1826 by citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832. in economics and business. Habig immediately assumes the responsibilities of the acting chief financial officer, William L. Campbell. Campbell remains executive vice president of Avistar, president of Collaboration Properties, Inc Collaboration Properties, Inc. (CPI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avistar Communications Corporation. It holds US and foreign patents in the primary areas of presence-based interactions, desktop video, recorded and live media at the desktop, multimedia documents, data sharing, ., a subsidiary of Avistar Communications Corporation, and a member of the board of directors of Avistar Communications Corporation. About Avistar Communications Corporation Avistar develops, markets and supports a comprehensive suite of networked video communication services for the enterprise. From the desktop, Avistar delivers TV-quality interactive video calling, content creation and publishing, broadcast origination and distribution, video-on-demand, and integrated data sharing. The Avistar video and data collaboration applications are all managed by Avistar's VOS An operating system used in Stratus computers. FTX is Stratus' Unix operating system. (TM) video operating system. Founded in 1993, Avistar Communications Corporation (Nasdaq:AVSR) is headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., with sales offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and London. Avistar Systems Corporation and Collaboration Properties, Inc. are wholly owned subsidiaries 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. of Avistar Communications Corporation. Collaboration Properties holds a broad portfolio of patents covering Avistar's VOS open platform as well as a wide range of software and hardware video collaboration products. For more information on Avistar, visit www.avistar.com. Note to Editors: Avistar, VOS, the Avistar logo, and Avistar Systems are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avistar Communications Corporation. All other names used are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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