B.O.S. Announces Changes in the Composition of Its Board.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TERADYON, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2004 B.O.S. Better On-line Solutions Ltd. (the "Company" or "BOS") (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BOSC, TASE TASE Tel Aviv Stock Exchange TASE The All Seeing Eye TASE Tactical Air Support Element TASE Thrust Assessment Support Environment TASE Telecontrol Application Service Elements (IEC communications protocol) :BOS) announced today that two of its directors have resigned, and that the Board of Directors has appointed two new directors in their place, to serve until the next annual general meeting of shareholders. Mr. Boaz Harel tendered his resignation from the Board of Directors of the Company and from the Board of Directors of its subsidiary, Boscom Ltd. due to personal reasons, and Mr. Jacob Tenenboem resigned from the Company's Board as other commitments prevent him from being able to devote the necessary time as a director of the Company. The Board of Directors appointed Mr. Adiv Baruch and Mr. Avishai Gluck, as directors, to serve until the next annual shareholders' meeting shareholders' meeting n. a meeting, usually annual, of all shareholders of a corporation (although in large corporations only a small percentage attend) to elect the Board of Directors and hear reports on the company's business situation. . Mr. Adiv Baruch, 41, is the Company's 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. , since January 1, 2004. From 1999 to 2003 he served as Executive VP Business Development of Ness Technologies, and has expertise in the Telecom and High-tech industry. Mr. Baruch is well respected in the Israeli High-tech market as well as the international markets with his strategic capabilities and marketing vision. Mr. Baruch is also a former partner and active director holding an executive position at IPEX IPEX Italian Power Exchange IPEX Immunodysregulation, Polyendocrinopathy, Enteropathy, X Linked (Syndrome) IPEX Input Parameter Extra (Alcatel) , acquired by Ness. He has served as founder and an executive or director for several IT companies and Internet start-ups, and was significantly involved in the M&A process and in assisting these companies in their global expansion. Mr. Baruch is actively involved as the chairman of the Israeli Export Institute Hi-Tech and Telecom Division. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Industrial Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Mr. Avishai Gluck, 32, serves as the Executive Vice President of Catalyst Investments. Mr. Gluck brings with him over 6 years of financial management, accounting and tax consultation experience. He has extensive knowledge of the Israeli high tech market, having screened hundreds of companies in Catalyst and as a senior corporate consultant at E&Y Israel. Mr. Gluck currently serves as a director in MTI MTI Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore) MTI Metal Treating Institute MTI Moving Target Indicator (radar) MTI Magyar Távirati Iroda (news agency in Budapest, Hungary) Wireless-Edge Ltd. Prior to joining Catalyst, he held the position of Corporate Finance Consultant and accountant with Ernst & Young's Israeli affiliate Kost Forer & Gabbay, a leading Israeli CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. firm with a dominant position among Israeli technology companies. Mr. Gluck has a BA from Tel-Aviv University in Accounting and Economics and is a licensed CPA. About B.O.S. Through its 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. , BOScom, the Company develops, produces and markets multi-functional, cross-enterprise communication and networking products. Marketed under the BOSaNOVA brand, these products are renowned for their simplicity of use, quality, and reliability. The IP Telephony line (www.boscom.com) offers innovative convergence migration solutions that leverage a corporation's existing equipment infrastructure. The legacy line (www.bosweb.com) provides solutions 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) midrange-to-PC and LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. connectivity and GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. emulation, and printing solutions that are operating system-independent. B.O.S. (www.boscorporate.com) was established in 1990 and became a public company traded on the Nasdaq National Market in 1996 (Nasdaq:BOSC), and on the Tel Aviv Stock Market in 2002 (TASE:BOS). The forward-looking statements contained herein reflect management's current views with respect to future events and financial performance. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the control of BOS, including, but not limited to, those risks and uncertainties detailed in BOS' periodic reports and registration statements filed with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission. BOS undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any such forward-looking statements to reflect any change in its expectations or in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements may be based, or that may affect the likelihood that actual results will differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. |
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