ChatCom names James B. Mariner President CEO.CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 1996--ChatCom, 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 : CHAT) is pleased to annouce the selection of James B. Mariner Mariner Any of a series of unmanned U.S. space probes sent near Venus, Mars, and Mercury. Mariners 2 (1962) and 5 (1967) passed Venus within 22,000 mi (35,000 km) and 2,500 mi (4,000 km), respectively, and made measurements of temperature and atmospheric density. as its new president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Gerald R. Sayer, who will continue to serve on ChatCom's Board and Executive Committee. Mariner brings to the company over 35 years of acquired expertise, in both the computer and electronics industries with both large corporations and emerging high technology companies such as ChatCom. This combination of leadership experience will be an important driving force to enable ChatCom to expand its penetration of the company's Fortune 500 Universe. Mariner has extensive management experience with advanced automation, communications and large scale multi-tiered networked systems. He was 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. of Digital Datacom, which he later sold to Honeywell Inc. for five times revenues. Subsequently he was subsidiary president as well as vice president/general manager for Honeywell, Inc.'s Large Computer and Manufacturing Systems Group, Mariner later became president of Sidereal si·de·re·al adj. 1. Of, relating to, or concerned with the stars or constellations; stellar. 2. Measured or determined by means of the apparent daily motion of the stars: sidereal time. Corporation, the telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. subsidiary of Trans Technology Corp. Previously, he served as Director of International Marketing for Control Data Corp.'s military Systems Group. Most recently, Mariner was president of TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center , a consulting group, specializing in turn-arounds for technology companies. ChatCom's chairman of the board, Richard F. Gordon, Jr. expressed the Board's pleasure in the selection of Mariner, stating, "We are delighted that Mariner is joining the company. Mariner, together with our newly appointed Board members will provide the management skills and background for positioning ChatCom, Inc. as a major force in the Network Systems Industry. We are looking forward to a long and profitable relationship." Mariner stated, "The ChatCom products and technology, coupled with its ongoing development program is a superb platform from which to launch the company's bid as a major player in the communications, applications and web server markets. This is a seasoned and innovative employee group and I am looking ahead to an exciting and successful future with them." ChatCom Inc. manufactures remote access communications
Access Communications Co-operative Ltd. and application servers and gateways for Local Area, LANs and Wide Area, WAN, Networks. The company was a pioneer in remote access technology, the most famous product being the ChatterBox(TM) family of communication servers. CONTACT: ChatCom Inc. Gerald Sayer, 818/709-1778 or Strategic Growth International Inc., 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 Richard Cooper/Stanley Altschuler, 516/829-7111 |
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