CommVision attracts second round of venture financing and names new executive vide president of sales and marketing.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 1995--CommVision Corp. Monday announced announced that it completed a second round of venture financing, raising $4.5 million. The company also appointed Harry Quackenboss to the position of executive vice president of sales and marketing. Quackenboss was formerly general manager of worldwide sales for Cisco Systems' Workgroup Business Unit. CommVision's second round of venture financing was provided by two new investors: Burr burr (bur) bur. burr n. Variant of bur. burr 1. a plant seed capsule carrying many hooked structures which catch in animal coats thus promoting dissemination of the plant. , Egan, Deleage & Co. and Bay Partners, as well as by the two initial investors, Brentwood Associates and Crosspoint Venture Partners. With this additional financing, total venture capital raised by CommVision amounts to $8.1 million. These funds will support continued product development, sales and marketing activities. "This new round not only reaffirms that we are on the right track with our strategy of bringing increased openness to the datacom world, but it also gives us the financial strength to carry on our programs," stated Arthur Chang, CommVision's president and chief executive officer. Quackenboss was appointed to the position of executive vice president of sales and marketing. Quackenboss has over 20 years of experience in the computer industry. He comes to CommVision from 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. , where he was general manager of worldwide sales for the Workgroup Business Unit. Quackenboss was previously vice president, Worldwide Sales and Service for Crescendo cres·cen·do n. pl. cres·cen·dos or cres·cen·di 1. Abbr. cr. Music a. A gradual increase, especially in the volume or intensity of sound in a passage. b. Communications, which was acquired by Cisco. Prior to that, he held vice presidential positions at Sequent (Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., Beaverton, OR, www.sequent.com) A computer company founded in 1983 by 17 ex-employees of Intel that specialized in multiprocessing systems for the client/server environment. Computer Systems and also held senior sales and marketing positions with MIPS Computer See MIPS Technologies. Systems and Honeywell Inc. "I am very pleased to have Harry join our team. He brings a wealth of experience in the data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. marketplace. Harry has been very successful at every turn of his career, including recently in start-up companies start-up company A new business. such as Crescendo. I believe his contributions will be invaluable to CommVision," said Chang. CommVision Corp. is a leading provider of open data communications systems that consolidate a wide range of concurrent communications services. CONTACT: CommVision, Mountain View
Claude Ezran, 415/254-9326
Lustenader Public Relations
Tom Lustenader, 408/741-5731
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