Bolt Beranek and Newman NAMES VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS; Commitment to Expanded Global Marketing Efforts.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- February 1, 1995--Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BBN (BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, www.bbn.com) A consulting firm that participated in the development of some of the most extensive networks in the world, including ARPANET, which evolved into the Internet. It was founded in 1948 as a consulting service in acoustics by Dr. ) today announced that Peter W. Thonis has joined the company as vice president of communications. Thonis brings to BBN 18 years of diverse experience as a top-level communications executive. Thonis will have overall senior management responsibility for the company's corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. function, including worldwide public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , management of corporate communications and image promotions, and coordination of communication activities for the company's subsidiaries. Thonis will report directly to George H. Conrades, BBN's president and chief executive officer. Thonis was most recently director of worldwide public relations, PC businesses for 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) . In this position, Thonis was responsible for all public relations activities, including media and consultant relations; and employee and executive communications. Prior to that, Thonis served as director of worldwide product and technology communications where he coordinated in-house and agency professionals, was instrumental in the successful launch of hundreds of products and directed interaction with the media. In addition, Thonis has directed company-wide product consultant and media relations and managed corporate media relations. "Peter is a very strong addition to our senior executive team. He brings the expertise and proven track record that complement BBN's world-class technology. The appointment ensures that BBN will continue to aggressively move forward with consistent worldwide communications programs that make it easier and more profitable for our customers and partners to do business with us," said Conrades. 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. , Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. is a leading provider of internetworked systems that help people work and learn together. In September, the company celebrated the 25th anniversary of its development of the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) The research network funded by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The software was developed by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), and Honeywell 516 minicomputers were the first hardware used as , which led to the modern Internet. BBN HARK Systems Corporation interactive access to information and services through robust, large-vocabulary speech recognition systems. BBN Internet Services Corporation transports data through managed Internet access See how to access the Internet. and value-added services. BBN Software Products Corporation provides applications which extract useful information from data in a client/server environment. BBN Systems and Technologies provides advanced systems and technology integration services. For its fiscal year ended June 30, 1994, BBN had revenue of $196 million. CONTACT: Catherine Miller Aline Thibault Corporate Communications Specialist FitzGerald Communications Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. Tel: (617) 494-9500 Tel: (617) 873-6113 Internet: Internet: cmiller(at)bbn.com aline_thibault(at)ftizcomm.com |
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