Bitstream Names David Frenkel as General Manager of Pageflex, Inc.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2002 Well-known Fortune 500 newspaper & publishing executive to join a leader in the on-demand marketing industry Bitstream Inc. (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 : BITS) announced today that David Frenkel has been named General Manager of Pageflex, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bitstream Inc. David Frenkel is best known in the U.S. newspaper and publishing industry as the 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 Pentawave, Inc., which develops print and Internet classified and display ad systems for the automotive, real estate and employment industries. He also founded other companies that pioneered the automation of classified ads, catalogs and directories. In addition, his media industry experience includes senior positions held with hardware, software and consulting firms Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , including being the Director of Sales and Marketing for the Optronics Optronics, or optoelectronics in its less abbreviated form, is the science and technology making use of optics and electronics. It is sometimes synonymous with photonics, however the latter has a lesser emphasis on electronics. Division of Intergraph, with responsibility for newspapers and magazines. Mr. Frenkel was most recently COO of Media Command Americas, which just merged with Atex. Media Command is a supplier of newspaper pre-press systems. "We are very pleased that David Frenkel is joining us as General Manager of Pageflex," said Charles Ying, Chief Executive Officer of Bitstream and President of Pageflex. "A Fortune 500 executive, David brings relevant experience in the newspaper and publishing industry to our company. With the addition of David Frenkel to our executive staff, we expect Pageflex to continue to grow, based on the solid foundation established by former Vice-President Sang Lee." About Bitstream Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R) and Font Fusion Bitstream Font Fusion is a small, fast, object-oriented font engine written in ANSI C capable of rendering high-quality text on any platform, any device, and at any resolution. The entire source code is portable, optimized, and executes independent of operating system and processor. (TM) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances See Internet appliance. (hardware) Information Appliance - (IA) A consumer device that performs only a few targeted tasks and is controlled by a simple touch-screen interface or push buttons on the device's enclosure. , wireless and handheld devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. , and printers. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents in the U.S. that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Building on this experience, Bitstream has released ThunderHawk(TM), a breakthrough technology for the wireless Web. Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com, Inc. (http://www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. . Find out more about Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com. About Pageflex Pageflex, Inc. (http://www.pageflexinc.com) is the leading developer of dynamic page composition technologies for a wide variety of markets including Web-to-print, cross-media publishing, document customization and on-demand marketing. Pageflex licenses its award-winning products worldwide to Web-to-print companies, application service providers, customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) companies, print service providers, and corporations. The Company was established in 1999 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bitstream Inc. Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and ThunderHawk are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Pageflex is a trademark of Pageflex, Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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