CMG hires CTO for Planet Direct personal Internet service.WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 1996--CMG Information Services See Information Systems. 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 :CMGI CMGI Commonly Maintained Grounds Infrastructures CMGI College Marketing Group Information (Services) ) today named Alexander (Lex See yacc. 1. (tool) Lex - A lexical analyser generator for Unix and its input language. There is a GNU version called flex and a version written in, and outputting, SML/NJ called ML-lex. ) Crosett as chief technology officer for Planet Direct, CMG's new personal Internet service offering targeted at ISPs. Crosett will be responsible for all aspects of development for the Planet Direct suite of Internet services. The suite -- being offered free to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and end users -- integrates such CMG CMG Coastal & Marine Geology (USGS) CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (stock symbol) CMG Companion (of the Order Of) St Michael and St George CMG Computer Measurement Group Internet portfolio company offerings as personal home pages, 3-D (VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) A 3D graphics language used on the Web. After downloading a VRML page, its contents can be viewed, rotated and manipulated. Simulated rooms can be "walked into." The VRML viewer is launched from within the Web browser. ) chat, advanced personal messaging, individualized in·di·vid·u·al·ize tr.v. in·di·vid·u·al·ized, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·ing, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·es 1. To give individuality to. 2. To consider or treat individually; particularize. 3. news and information retrieval, Web searches, accelerated browsing and e-mail, as well as the development of locally focused content. Crosett will be responsible for all technical aspects of this first-of-its-kind offering, including design, architecture and implementation. He brings 15 years of relevant experience to this position, most recently at CompuServe Inc. where he was vice president of Development. Crosett and his team were responsible for delivering WOW!, a completely new online service for home users in eight months from funding to delivery. Lex personally conceived and managed CompuServe's strategic transition to open Internet standards and completed the first ever Normandy platform licensing deal with Microsoft. Crosett initiated a massive retraining re·train tr. & intr.v. re·trained, re·train·ing, re·trains To train or undergo training again. re·train effort for the technical staff and earlier reorganized the development, quality assurance and product management functions into a unified team as group director of Interface Products. Previously, Crosett spent five years at Lotus Development Corp. in various technical and marketing management positions including general manager of Mainframe Systems Division and manager of Product Planning. He also managed two startup companies in the health care and hospital information systems business. Lex holds M.B.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of Vermont and the University of Virginia, respectively. 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. David Wetherell said, "We are extremely pleased to attract someone with such an ideally suited background for this critical role for Planet Direct. Lex has demonstrated a keen ability to expedite technologies into innovative arenas and we are confident he will be successful at driving forward our goals of growing Planet Direct into one of the largest installed bases of online customers." Planet Direct is a personalized and localized next-generation Internet service suite created by CMG to offer ISPs competitive advantages in the expanding worldwide market for online access and services. CMGI is a direct marketing services organization investing in and integrating advanced Internet, interactive media and database management technologies into products and services. These products and services will take full advantage of the direct marketing opportunities afforded by new online interactive media. CONTACT: CMG Information Services Inc. Kathryn Cadigan, 508/657-7000 x3036 kcadigan@cmgi.com or Fitzgerald Communications Paul Davis, 617/494-9500 pdavis@fitzcomm.com |
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