Barry Glick, currently Chairman, named as new CEO of Webraska; Jean-Michel Durocher, co-Founder, steps down as CEO, remains as Board member.Business Editors PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. & SARATOGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2002 Webraska - Webraska management team strengthened: Michael Nappi, formerly of AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner's Mapquest unit, joins as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Several key internal promotions announced. Webraska, the worldwide provider of location-based services See mobile positioning. (LBS (Location-Based Services) See mobile positioning. ) and enabling platforms, announces today that Jean-Michel Durocher, co-founder 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. of Webraska, is stepping down as CEO, effective immediately. He will continue to remain a member of the Board of Directors. Barry Glick, who has served as Chairman of Webraska for the past 6 months, will become the CEO. Barry Glick previously was the CEO and Chairman of MapQuest, where he built the company to its industry-leading position, which led to a highly successful IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. , and eventual sale to AOL for $1.1 billion. "I am tremendously proud of everything Webraska has achieved since its creation in 1998", says Jean-Michel Durocher. "The company is widely recognized as the powerhouse of the location-based services sector, with more services and middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a deployed with more carriers in more countries and more continents than our four nearest competitors combined. In parallel, the recent multi-million dollar agreement signed with Orange World signals a major evolution from single country agreements to high-value international multi-year contracts, as the industry matures". "Webraska has indeed built an enviable and unique market position." continues Barry Glick. "During the months and years ahead, the Webraska management team will focus on helping our wireless carrier customers to generate significant profitable revenue growth from compelling location-aware mobile information and communications services. Within the telematics Originally coined to mean the convergence of telecommunications and information processing, the term later evolved to refer to automation in automobiles. GPS navigation, integrated hands-free cellphones, wireless communications and automatic driving assistance systems all come under the services sector, we look forward to fruitful collaboration with companies such as 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 SAIC-Telcordia, whose extensive worldwide sales networks, business relationships, systems integration capabilities and vertical industry expertise provide a valuable complement to Webraska's core technologies." Webraska is pleased to announce that Michael Nappi, formerly VP and General Manager, MapQuest Business Solutions at AOL Time Warner, has accepted the position as Senior VP, Sales, Marketing, and Business Development with responsibility for company-wide Marketing, Business Development, Product Marketing, Marketing Communications Marketing communications (or marcom) are messages and related media used to communicate with a market. Those who practice advertising, branding, direct marketing, graphic design, marketing, packaging, promotion, publicity, sponsorship, public relations, sales, sales and 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. Sales. Mr Nappi was a founder-member of the team which created MapQuest. He was responsible for managing the sales and marketing of MapQuest's business and enterprise products to a worldwide set of over 2,000 corporate clients. In this position, he managed a staff of over 160 including marketing, product management, business development, worldwide sales, software development and operations. His group was focused on the distribution of packaged technology and content solutions to clients worldwide via ASP and client side services. Prior to this, Mr Nappi held senior sales, product management and marketing roles with RR Donnelly and Unisys. Webraska is also pleased to announce the following promotions and areas of responsibility for the following managers who will have key roles in delivering, marketing and supporting our products: o Cheryl Quirion is named VP, Engineering and Operations, and is responsible for all aspects of the company's product development, quality assurance & control, testing and operations across all products and markets. o Jonathan Klinger becomes VP, Product Marketing and Communications, with responsibility for managing the product marketing group as a well as corporate and marketing communications functions. o Paul Bradley will serve as Director, Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. and Support, with overall management responsibility for supporting our customers with installation, customization, technical support and all other means of insuring the efficient launch of high-quality innovative LBS and telematics services. o Laurent Vandebrouck becomes VP, Telematics, with overall sales and marketing responsibility for our off-board navigation, fleet and telematics solutions. o Shahin Javidi, VP Worldwide Sales, will have overall management responsibility for all sales on a world-wide basis across telecommunications, telematics and enterprise markets, with the exception of North America and Global Accounts, which report to Michael Nappi. o Ken Hart Ken Hart (May 7 1917 - February 12 2006) was an American World War II pilot, publisher, composer, actor, editor, lobbyist, writer, disc jockey and campaign manager. He was born in Long Beach, New York and died in Frankfort, Kentucky. , VP of Global Accounts, will have executive responsibility for selected multi-national wireless telecommunications customers. o Thierry Dumort, co-Founder, will serve as Chief Technical Officer with responsibility for Webraska's industry-leading Geospatial technology Geospatial Technology, commonly known as geomatics, refers to technology used for visualization, measurement, and analysis of features or phenomena that occur on the earth. platform o Korak Mitra, becomes VP, Technology, focused on providing technology and product leadership to the Smartzone LBS product line encompassing the LBS Applications Platform and the suite of SmartZone Applications products. This strengthening and re-alignment of the management team, positions the company to continue rapid growth and innovation, while ensuring the highest quality levels of customer support and service. For more information visit: www.webraska.com or contact Jonathan Klinger (jklinger@webraska.com) |
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