Blueprint Technologies Announces the Appointment of Ralph Alexander as President and CEO.MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 1999-- Blueprint Technologies, a leading provider of reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us software frameworks for maintaining critical e-business applications, today announced the appointment of Ralph Alexander to the position of president and chief executive officer. In this role Alexander will focus on strategic new business growth in key industries and position the company for an initial public offering in 2001. "Ralph's vision and leadership will greatly enhance our ability to provide our customers with e-business solutions," said Jon Hopkins Jon Hopkins writes and performs his own music, melody-led electronica. He was born and brought up in London and started playing the piano when he was five. By the age of twelve was studying piano at London's Royal College of Music. , chief technical officer and co-founder of Blueprint Technologies. "As we expand our customer base and help organizations get their e-business solutions up and running quickly, now is the perfect time for us to bring Technologies as our 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. ," said Jgies to flourish in this expanding market for rprint Technologies Alexander served as president and COO of Landmark Systems Corporation (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 : LDMK). Alexander joined Landmark in 1995 as chief financial officer, was named COO in 1996, and a year later added the title of president. Before joining Landmark, Alexander served as the president of the Verdix Corporation, where he engineered a highly successful $70 million merger between Verdix and Rational Software Corporation (NASDAQ: RATL RATL Raising Achievement Transforming Learning (Specialist Schools and Academies Trust) RATL Renaldo and The Loaf (music duo) RATL Rapsyn-Associated Transmembrane Linker RATL Rockin' ATLanta ). This merger led to impressive revenue and earnings growth for eight consecutive quarters. Prior to joining Verdix, Alexander also held positions with Xerox Corporation (company) XEROX Corporation - http://xerox.com/. See also XEROX PARC, XEROX Network Services. and Arthur Andersen For the U.S. Supreme Court case commonly known as Arthur Andersen, see . Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (the other four are PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG), performing . About Blueprint Technologies Founded in 1997, Blueprint Technologies Inc., provides software, services and training focused on component-based software architecture and development. Blueprint's mission is to help clients rapidly build high quality, distributed e-business systems that can scale to satisfy the needs of the largest customer-bases. Blueprint Technologies' clientele includes a number of Fortune 500 companies in the financial, telecommunications and transportation industries. |
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