Bill Lyons Appointed NeuVis President and CEO to Secure Company's Position as a Leading E-business Infrastructure Provider.Business & Technology Editors SHELTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2001 Seasoned Industry Veteran to Lead NeuVis' Expansion in the Internet Rapid Application Development (I-RAD) Market; Arun Gupta Moves To Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer Positions In an important organizational shift that significantly strengthens the company in a highly competitive marketplace, NeuVis, an innovator in enterprise-level Internet rapid application development (I-RAD) software, today announced Bill Lyons as its new President and Chief Executive Officer (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. ). A former CEO of Java and ActiveX Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. software developer Finjan Software Ltd., object-oriented software developer ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc., and PC database software firm Ashton-Tate Corporation (company) Ashton-Tate Corporation - The original vendor of dBASE and joint developers of EEMS. Ashton-Tate was founded by Charles Tate and Ashton was his pet parrot's name. The parrot lived in the lobby of the company's LA headquarters. , Lyons is a seasoned software executive with a 30-year record of success, including 18 years in management positions at 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) Corporation. Arun Gupta, NeuVis founder, Chairman of the Board and current CEO, will relinquish the CEO title but remain as Chairman and Chief Technology officer (CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. ). "Bill Lyons is a proven software executive with a unique blend of business and technology experience that will significantly benefit NeuVis at this important stage in the company's growth," said Arun Gupta, Chairman and CTO of NeuVis. "Bill will set our strategic direction and lead the execution of our business strategy. His experience and wealth of contacts throughout the software industry will help propel us to the dominant position in the I-RAD marketplace." "The market is struggling with issues like tying legacy systems to the Internet, building XML-enabled applications and exploiting the potential of wireless applications," said Lyons. "NeuVis has solved these problems with a compelling technology and an impressive set of partners." Bill Lyons has successfully developed a number of innovative technology companies from their earliest stages through growth, mergers, IPOs and other business transformations. Lyons helped establish Finjan as the leader in the malicious mobile code Internet security market with more than 500 customers worldwide and an enviable team of partners, including IBM, Cisco and Intel. As the CEO of ParcPlace Systems (company) ParcPlace Systems - A company spun-off from Xerox PARC that developed the original version of VisualWorks. , Inc., Lyons brought the company public in 1994 and was head of ParcPlace when it merged with Digitalk in 1995. The merger formed the largest independent object-oriented software company in the world at that time, with over $51 million in annual revenues. At Ashton-Tate, Lyons led the $440 million merger between Ashton-Tate and Borland International. Lyons also worked in a variety of sales and marketing positions during an 18-year career with IBM, including vice president of Software Marketing for IBM's National Distribution Division. About NeuVis NeuVis, Inc. delivers an enterprise-level approach to Internet rapid application development (I-RAD). The NeuVis I-RAD Platform transcends traditional e-business approaches through a disciplined engineering process, visual modeling and automated construction to develop high quality applications that are flexible, scalable and secure. Through its visual modeling system and automated construction features, NeuVis products enable businesses to quickly and easily adapt their e-business applications to meet any business, marketplace and technology changes they face throughout the life cycle of their business. The company is currently deploying this platform for Global 2000 and New Economy companies in the 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. , healthcare and other industries. NeuVis investors include: affiliates of Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : GS), Lehman Brothers Venture Partners (NYSE: LEH), eFinanceworks, Galleon galleon, oceangoing warship used by the European naval powers in the 15th and 16th cent. A large, cumbersome vessel, the galleon was three-masted and square-rigged, usually with two decks, and with its main batteries in broadsides. Group, GE Investment Corp., Allen and Company, Voyager Capital, The Chatterjee Group, J&W Seligman New Technologies Fund and Connecticut Innovations. NeuVis partners include: BEA Systems, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. , Oracle and Sun Microsystems. The company is located in Shelton, Connecticut, and can be reached by phone at (203) 402-2000 or via the Internet at www.neuvis.com. 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