Captaris, Inc. Names Thomas Murnane -- 20 Year PricewaterhouseCoopers Veteran -- to Board of Directors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2003 Captaris, Inc. (Nasdaq:CAPA CAPA California Alternate Performance Assessment CAPA Captaris, Inc (stock symbol) CAPA Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants CAPA Creative and Performing Arts (school) ), a leading provider of business information delivery solutions that integrate and automate the flow of messages, data and documents, today named Thomas M. Murnane to its Board of Directors effective July 1, 2003. The addition of Mr. Murnane expands the Company's Board to 8 members and, importantly, increases the Board's independent membership. "We are pleased to have Mr. Murnane join our Board of Directors," said David P. Anastasi, president and chief executive officer of Captaris. "Tom brings extensive knowledge in strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , branding and marketing, which will add tremendous perspective and value to the Captaris Board as we continue to strengthen our brand and market position. Moreover, he will bring significant business experience and added breadth to our Board of Directors." At PwC Consulting, Mr. Murnane led the Retail Strategy Consulting Practice for many years, and later, the overall Strategy Consulting Practice for the East Region of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . For five years prior to his recent retirement as a PWC Partner, he served as Global Director of Marketing and Brand Management for PwC Consulting and also sat on the firm's Executive Committee. "I am very pleased to join the Captaris Board of Directors," said Murnane. "Captaris has a long and proven track record and continues to perform well despite an extremely difficult economic environment. As a member of the Captaris Board, I look forward to contributing to the growth of the company, along with David Anastasi and the rest of the Captaris team." Before joining PwC, Mr. Murnane taught Marketing Research as a graduate student at The Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. and also directed the Business School's Professional Practice Program. Prior to that, he held the positions of Director of New Product Development and Director of Marketing Research for Ohio National Bank, the lead bank of The BancOhio Corporation. Mr. Murnane currently serves as a Director on the Boards of Pacific Sunwear Pacific Sunwear (also known as PacSun) is a shopping mall retail store that sells surfing and skateboarding clothing and accessories for teenagers and young adults. It was originally based in Newport Beach, California, United States. (Nasdaq:PSUN), The Pantry (Nasdaq:PTRY) and Finlay Enterprises You can improve this article by adding links to related material, within the existing text. After links have been created, remove this message. For more information, see the . abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from The Ohio State University. Additional information regarding the Captaris Board of Directors can be accessed on the Captaris website at www.Captaris.com. About Captaris, Inc. Captaris is a leading provider of business information delivery solutions that integrate and automate the flow of messages, data and documents. Captaris produces a suite of proven products and services, in partnership with leading enterprise software companies, delivered through a global distribution network. Captaris has nearly 100,000 systems installed worldwide, with more than 90 of the Fortune 100 using the company's award-winning products and services to reduce costs and increase the performance of critical business information investments. Captaris is headquartered in Bellevue, WA, and has main offices in Tucson, AZ, Portland, OR, and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CA. In addition, Captaris has product sales and support offices in Holland, the United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Australia, and Dubai. The company's MediaLinq Services group has additional office locations in Reston, VA, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY, Chicago, IL and Newport Beach, CA. The company was founded in 1982 and is publicly traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol CAPA. For more information please visit www.captaris.com. Captaris products RightFax, CallXpress, MediaLinq and Infinite are trademarks of Captaris. All other company, brand and product names are the property and/or trademarks of their respective companies. |
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