Chrysalis-ITS Adds IC Development Veterans to its Management Lineup: Dr. Terry Thomas from Nortel and Russel Fields from PMC-Sierra bolster IC development team.Business Editors OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2000 Chrysalis-ITS today announced the appointments of Terry Thomas, former Nortel executive, as Vice President of IC Engineering, and Russel Fields, former PMC-Sierra director, as Vice President of IC Operations. With over 60 years in Integrated Circuit development The integrated circuit (IC) development process is complex and arduous. The high level process for developing an integrated circuit starts with defining product requirements, progresses through architectural definition, implementation, bringup and finally productization. between them, the addition of Thomas and Fields rounds out the company's development team, focused on the rapidly growing market for high-performance network security processors. Chrysalis-ITS delivers solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to build Public Key Infrastructures and Virtual Private Networks over the Internet for hundreds to thousands of users, without fear of breach of trust, performance bottlenecks, scalability problems or technology obsolescence ob·so·les·cent adj. 1. Being in the process of passing out of use or usefulness; becoming obsolete. 2. Biology Gradually disappearing; imperfectly or only slightly developed. . Chrysalis-ITS 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. , Steve Baker Steve Baker (born September 8, 1978 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire) is an English professional footballer who is a defender and currently plays for Gateshead. Baker has played for a number of clubs including Middlesbrough, Huddersfield Town, Darlington, Hartlepool and notes the addition of semiconductor industry veterans such as Dr. Thomas and Mr. Fields is a testament to the company's growth and vision in the dynamic Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. market. &uot;Chrysalis-ITS is at the forefront of technology advancements in security processing,&uot; said Mr. Baker. &uot;Terry has thirty years experience in chip design and development and Russ has an equally impressive background in semiconductor manufacturing. Bringing Terry and Russ onto the Chrysalis-ITS team just adds to our momentum and shows we mean business when we say we will lead in this market. As Vice President IC Engineering at Chrysalis-ITS, Terry Thomas has spent 30 years dedicated to the design and use of silicon and related design methodologies. Most of this has been with Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony . Most recently he was the managing director of strategic alliances and design systems. Dr. Thomas also represented Nortel's interest as a board member of high technology consortiums, which provided him the opportunity to influence North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. and European technology communities with new silicon technology direction. Early in 1999 Dr. Thomas moved to Virtual Silicon Technologies where he held the position of vice president of strategic alliances. Dr. Thomas has a B. Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of London For most practical purposes, ranging from admission of students to negotiating funding from the government, the 19 constituent colleges are treated as individual universities. Within the university federation they are known as Recognised Bodies where he was one of the early researchers into artificial intelligence. &uot;E-Commerce is where the action is. We're building a world-class silicon design team to bring the most advanced silicon techniques to lead the network security market place,&uot; said Dr. Terry Thomas. As Vice President IC Operations for Chrysalis-ITS, Russ Fields, brings 29 years of experience in IC manufacturing, test and product engineering, and has an impressive history of moving start-up semiconductor companies into a high volume manufacturing phase. Mr. Fields has held several executive management positions including Director of Manufacturing Engineering with PMC-Sierra as well as posts in business development, operations and engineering with Mosaid Technologies, Mitel, Crimble MicroTest and LTX LTX Liver Transplant LTX Lane Training Exercise LTX Laptop Expansion (Slot) . Mr. Fields will be working out of the Chrysalis-ITS Burnaby office with Vernon Little, the company's recently appointed Vice President Marketing. &uot;Chrysalis-ITS is a dynamic company with a dedicated management team,&uot; said Russel Fields. &uot;Our significant opportunity is to establish a leading edge manufacturing and test operation in the Vancouver area capable of delivering large volumes of high quality chips to our network security processing customers.&uot; With the company's IC product development team now under Dr. Thomas' leadership, the Chrysalis-ITS systems engineering team, the source of its industry-leading Luna PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of product family, will be headed by Wayne Reed, Vice President Systems Engineering. Chrysalis-ITS Luna PKI products are the industry's most widely used security products for ensuring trust, reliability and scalability in public key infrastructures and virtual private networks. Chrysalis-ITS is also expanding its sales operations. Blair Lounsbury has been appointed Southwest OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Sales Manager based in Virginia and in the Northeast US, Saba Sharifi has been appointed Northeast OEM Sales Manager based in Chrysalis-ITS' Boston, MA office. The company is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario with operations now in Burnaby, BC; Mountain View, CA; Boston, MA and Warrenton, VA. About Chrysalis-ITS Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. provides high performance security processing products for the networking and e-commerce industry. Its industry leading Luna technology is uniquely positioned to enhance the trust and performance of Certification Authority, Secure SockeChrysalis-ITS is the founder of the NSP (1) (Network Service Provider) An organization that provides a high-speed Internet backbone to ISPs and other service providers. Sprint, MCI and UUNET are examples of NSPs. See Internet backbones. Alliance, formed to foster interoperable security processing architectures for high performance networking applications Chrysalis-ITS advanced cryptographic technology is used in some of the most widely known enterprise security solutions from Baltimore Technologies, CertCo, Check Point Software Technologies, Entrust Technologies, 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) , i-Planet - Netscape, Network Associates, Nokia, Sun-Netscape, VeriSign, and Xcert International. The company's website is www.chrysalis-its.com. Chrysalis-ITS, Chrysalis-ITS logo and Luna are a trademarks or registered trademarks of Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. |
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