Be Inc. Appoints Chief Operating Officer Steve Sakoman to Board of Directors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2000 Be Incorporated (Nasdaq:BEOS) today announced the appointment of Steve Sakoman Steve Sakoman is a computing executive. He recently retired from Apple Computer. He originally worked at Hewlett-Packard as a manufacturing engineer and project manager for the industry's first battery powered portable MS-DOS PC, the HP-110. , chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , to the company's board of directors. Be also announced the resignation of board member Christian Marchandise. "Steve is an excellent addition to Be's board of directors," stated Jean-Louis Gassee, chairman and chief executive officer of Be. "This move recognizes Steve's key role in shaping and implementing Be's strategy of providing a complete solution for the new generation of Internet-connected devices." As chief operating officer, Mr. Sakoman is responsible for the company's engineering, sales and marketing efforts for all its products. He co-founded the company with Gassee after a distinguished career with Hewlett Packard and Apple Computer, where he was director of CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. development managing the Apple II and Macintosh hardware group. Mr. Sakoman was also with Silicon Graphics, where he was the director of the Consumer Products and Technologies Group. Christian Marchandise is stepping down as a company director due to the time and logistical lo·gis·tic also lo·gis·ti·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to symbolic logic. 2. Of or relating to logistics. [Medieval Latin logisticus, of calculation constraints of attending Be's board meetings resulting from his extensive European business ventures. "We thank Mr. Marchandise, a pioneer of e-commerce in Europe, for his service on Be's board of directors and for his support of the company since 1995," said Gassee. About Be Founded in 1990, Be Incorporated creates software solutions that enable rich media and Web experiences on personal computers and Internet appliances Also called "information appliance," "smart appliance," and "Web appliance," it is a device specialized for accessing the Web and/or e-mail. Designed for ease of use, it plugs into a telephone jack or LAN connection for Internet hookup. . Be's headquarters are in Menlo Park, Calif., and its European office is in Paris, France. It is publicly traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol BEOS. Be can be found on the Web at http://www.be.com. |
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