CaminoSoft Corporation Names Arthur R. Ekroos President and Establishes New Advisory Board.Business Editors WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2000 CaminoSoft Corporation (Nasdaq: CMSF CMSF Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation CMSF Canada Millennium Scholarship Fund CMSF Chief of Mission Systems Flight CMSF Congregation of the Missionaries of St Francis ) a leading innovator in intelligent data storage and retrieval systems is pleased to announce that Arthur R. Ekroos has been named President of CaminoSoft. Mr. Ekroos brings over 20 years of executive experience in the data communications industry. His expertise is in the area of product development and marketing in both the hardware and software segments of the industry. In his most recent position as VP of Business development, sales and marketing for San Diego based Abacus America, Inc., Mr. Ekroos increased software sales 800% and expanded the customer base from 65 to over 600. Trained as an electrical engineer, Mr. Ekroos studied at the Stevens Institute of Technology Stevens is known for its rigorous engineering, science, and technological management curricula. Among the prominent research centers of Stevens is the Davidson Laboratory, Wireless Network Security Center, Keck Geotechnical Laboratory, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Nicoll Environmental and received his degree from Polytechnic University. On accepting the position of President, Mr. Ekroos made the following comments: "I am excited by this opportunity to join and lead the CaminoSoft team. Their data storage and retrieval technology is some of the best available. CaminoSoft's ability to store, manage and retrieve vast amounts of data transparently and seamlessly, makes its technology one of the most important components of any major corporate or governmental digitized-data-based system." CaminoSoft's 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. Walter Kornbluh, announced the creation of an Advisory Board adding that, "We have given the Advisory Board the charge of assisting the Company with strategic planning and partnership development. The members have been selected because of their extensive experience in the data storage industry. The Advisory Boards initial membership includes Dan Friedlander, Dan Brown and Amar Rao. Mr. Friedlander spent 11 years with the pioneers of the networking industry including Datapoint, 3Com and Novell. In addition he assisted in the founding of two data storage companies, Palindrome palindrome: see anagram. and Avail. Dan has also consulted for, among others, 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) , Microsoft and Oracle. Dan received a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Chicago. Dan Brown is the VP of Corporate Product Development for MTI MTI Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore) MTI Metal Treating Institute MTI Moving Target Indicator (radar) MTI Magyar Távirati Iroda (news agency in Budapest, Hungary) in Anaheim, CA. He heads a team of 75 engineers and is responsible for the development of a full line of enterprise storage subsystems. Dan has held executive positions with Storage Concepts Inc. and Western Digital Corp. where he managed organizational growth from 10 employees to 150, and revenue growth from $20 million to $100 million. He holds an Electrical Engineering Degree from the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Irvine. Amar Rao is the Director of Strategy and Corporate Development for the BEA Systems Corp. He joined IBM in 1982 in the Microelectronics Division and became the Manager of Financial Operations for the Storage Systems Division of IBM in 1992. From 1992 until March 2000 Amar held a variety of executive positions in the Storage Division of IBM with the exception of a 3-year stint as Vice President -Finance for 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. India. Amar received a degree in Electrical Engineering from the India Institute of Technology, Madras, India; a Masters in Industrial Engineering from the University of Rhode Island History The University was first chartered as the state's agricultural school in 1888. The site of the school was originally the Oliver Watson Farm, and the original farmhouse still lies on the campus today. ; and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). ." CaminoSoft Corporation is a creator of proprietary systems consisting of hardware and operating software designed to store and manage the vast quantities of data being created constantly in a wide range of businesses and industries which are required to maintain data and access to that data. Additional information can be obtained from the Company's website, www.caminosoft.com |
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