CenterSpan Promotes Steve Frison and David McFeeters-Krone.Business Editors HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2000 Steve Frison promoted to Senior Vice President of Product Development & Chief Technology Officer; David McFeeters-Krone promoted to Vice President of Strategic Alliances CenterSpan Communications (Nasdaq:CSCC CSCC Calgary Sports Car Club (Alberta, Canada) CSCC Clemson Sports Car Club CSCC Columbus State Community College (Ohio) CSCC Classic Sports Car Club (UK) ) today announced changes in the responsibilities of two members of its senior management team to address the continuing growth of its product development organization and better enable the company to continue to aggressively develop additional peer-to-peer communication and collaboration solutions and strategic alliance relationships. Steve Frison has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Product Development and Chief Technology Officer, responsible for engineering, quality assurance and product marketing. David McFeeters-Krone has been promoted to Vice President of Strategic Alliances, responsible for distribution alliances and technology licensing. Both will continue to report to Frank Hausmann, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We have been evangelizing peer-to-peer architecture and networks for the last two years. The recent press regarding the use of peer-to-peer networks to compare and share digital content has finally brought an understanding of this technology and its powerful capabilities to the general public," said Frank G. Hausmann. "As a result, we have seen an acceleration of interest in the digital content space. The additional responsibilities I have assigned to Steve and David will allow us to quickly assess and respond to these opportunities for Socket and new future applications." Prior to joining CenterSpan in February, Frison held roles as Vice President of Engineering for nCUBE, Chief Technology Officer of Complete Business Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:CBSI CBSI CUNA Brokerage Services, Inc. CBSI Cambodian Buddhist Society, Inc. (Silver Springs, Maryland) CBSI Certified Bridge Safety Inspector CBSI Custom Business Solutions, Inc. ) and key engineering management positions with Intel (Nasdaq:INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol) INTC Intercept INTC Interrupt Controller ). McFeeters-Krone has been with CenterSpan since June 1999 as Vice President of 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. . The new role will capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. his technology licensing experience gained while with the Intel Architecture Labs Intel Architecture Labs, also known as IAL, was the Personal Computer system research and development arm of Intel Corporation during the 1990s. IAL was created by Intel Vice-President Ron Whittier together with Craig Kinnie and Steven McGeady to develop the hardware and , NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. and MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology . About CenterSpan Communications Corporation CenterSpan Communications Corp. is a developer and marketer of software applications for peer-to-peer (PC-to-PC) text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. and multi-point voice conferencing over the Internet enabling communication and collaborative information sharing. The company is focusing on next generation peer-to-peer communication and collaboration technologies that enable real-time small group multimedia interaction over the Internet. This press release includes forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. The Company's Internet community and communications initiative is a new business in a rapidly evolving market. Specific statements regarding the timely release of new products, new business model and distribution leverage are forward-looking statements. Investors are encouraged to review the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's 1999 Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. , which are available from the Company without charge, for a further description of the risks and uncertainties relating to forward-looking statements made by the Company, as well as to other aspects of the Company's business. |
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