Clairvoyant Adds Two Industry Leaders to Board of Advisors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SARATOGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2001 Clairvoyant Software, Inc. has added two new members to its board of advisors: Frank Kovacs Frank Kovacs (1919 - 1990) was an American tennis player in the 1940s; he was known as the "Clown Prince of Tennis" for his on-court antics but was a good enough player to be the number 3-ranked American in 1940 and the number 2 in 1941. and Allan Leinwand. Frank Kovacs is the Vice President of Global Network Services for Citigroup Technology Infrastructure, Inc., where he is responsible for management and operations of the world's largest and most complex private data and Internet network. Previously, he was the Divisional VP of American International Group
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) (NYSE: AIG; TYO: 8685 ) is a major American insurance corporation based in New York City. within the Research, Standards, Methodology, & Process Engineering Group. Before that, Mr. Kovacs was the Central Business Operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets Manager of the AT&T Worldwide Intelligent Network, where he developed and directed the management of the annual work program across 1,700 system engineers and developers for the 150 operating support systems that provide the signaling, trunking, provisioning, forecasting, maintenance, and disaster recovery for the AT&T Worldwide Intelligent Network. Allan Leinwand is an expert in internetworking design and implementation. In his most recent role, he served as CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. and VP of Engineering for Telegis Networks, Inc. and was responsible for building the global IP infrastructure, for product engineering, and for operating the internal information systems. Before joining Telegis, he was CTO and VP of Internetwork Engineering at Digital Island, where he led the teams to build 6 global data centers, built an IP infrastructure that spanned 21 countries and over 17 Gigabits of Internet capacity, and co-authored a patented technology for geographic IP address identification. Prior to Digital Island, Leinwand was a consulting engineering manager for Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc. He is the co-author of the Network Management: A Practical Perspective and Cisco Router Configuration: A Practical Introduction to Cisco IOS Configuration. He instructs at the University of California-Berkeley in the Telecommunications Certificate Program. "Managing the largest private data & Internet network in the industry, we have looked at many tools to assist our engineers and capacity planners. The off-the-shelf availability of ForeCast is a long-awaited and welcome resource. Its proven success in our enterprise maximizes my commitment to being an advisor for Clairvoyant," said Frank Kovacs. "Well-timed with the demands of the current business environment, Clairvoyant has introduced a unique way for large enterprises to perform precise network resource planning See NRP. -- cutting costs and freeing up budget, and eliminating guesswork in the planning process. I look forward to helping guide their success," said Allan Leinwand. "We are pleased to have both Allan and Frank as advisors. Their broad industry experience will help us to continue enhancing our technology and to become known as the leader in this newly defined area of highly precise capacity forecasting to meet business objectives," said Greg Hampton, 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 Clairvoyant. About Clairvoyant Software Clairvoyant Software, a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Saratoga, Calif., provides solutions for forecasting network bandwidth and equipment for dial, wireless, DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary , Tx, OCx, frame relay, ATM, and cable, as well as hosting services such as co-location and managed services. More information is available on the company's web site at http://www.clairvoyant.com. |
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