Com21 President and CEO Peter D. Fenner Joins BiTMICRO NETWORKS Board of Directors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2000 Former President of AT&T Transmission and Systems Business' Extensive Experience and Management Expertise to Add Stability to Business Development BiTMICRO NETWORKS, Inc., developer of high performance solid state flash disk storage solutions, today announced that Peter D. Fenner, 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 Com21 (Nasdaq:CMTO CMTO College of Massage Therapists of Ontario ), has joined its Board of Directors. "We are very pleased to have a seasoned and experienced senior executive like Peter as an integral part of our Board of Directors," said Rey Bruce, co-founder and chairman of the Board of Directors of BiTMICRO NETWORKS. "Peter's extensive business knowledge and experience in the telecommunications industry will add depth to our Board's ability to properly position the company as our business expands," added Bruce. Before joining Com21, Mr. Fenner has been with AT&T (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :T) for over 30 years where he held various senior management positions including president and corporate officer of AT&T Transmission Systems Business from 1989-1992. Under his watch, AT&T Transmission Systems Business had over $3B in revenues and won the prestigious Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award for business excellence and quality achievement. Prior to his stint with AT&T's Transmission System Business, Mr. Fenner was vice-president of Product Planning for AT&T's $12B Network Systems from 1986-89 and was Vice President for Sales of Bell Atlantic from 1982 to 1986. "BiTMICRO NETWORKS is strategically poised to leverage its FlashBus and E-Disk technologies very well in the NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular and SAN markets," commented Fenner. "I envision these technologies to be a revolutionary driving force in NAS and SAN implementations and I'm excited to be a part of that force," added Fenner. Mr. Fenner is a graduate of Lehigh University with a degree in Industrial Engineering and is a Sloan fellow from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, . About BiTMICRO NETWORKS BiTMICRO NETWORKS, Inc., a privately held California corporation, is the world's premier supplier of high performance solid-state disk and flash disk storage solutions. BiTMICRO's storage solutions offer unmatched performance, data availability, and manageability across a spectrum of computing platforms from entry systems to super computers. BiTMICRO's storage product lines address a wide range of applications and operating systems needs including Storage Area Networking (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS). The company is a member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA FCIA See: Foreign Credit Insurance Association ) and Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ). Note to Editors: E-Disk(TM), FlashBus(TM), and BiTMICRO(TM) are trademarks of BiTMICRO NETWORKS, Inc. Others are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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