CompTIA CT Pioneers Section Names New Advisory Council.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2004

Leaders from communications solutions providers, equipment

manufacturers will help set tone for convergent technologies 

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CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association, today announced the appointment of a new ten-member advisory council to lead its CT Pioneers Section.

The new advisory council members represent a broad cross-section of companies that are on the front lines of implementing convergent technologies (CT) in a variety of business and industry environments. With vast expertise in both data and voice systems and solutions, the new advisory council will lead the CT Pioneers section in 2004 and 2005 as it promotes the growth and development in the CT industry.

The new chairman of the CT Pioneers Section is Alan Borck, president and chief executive officer of ARC Communications, Ltd., a leading solutions provider for voice and data communications headquartered in Piscataway, N.J. His experience includes providing services for clients in the banking and leasing industries. He previously served as president of the North American Association of Telecommunications Dealers (NATD).

Borck succeeds Gregory Wood as chairman. Wood, owner of Farsight Voice Data Solutions in Odessa, Texas, is section chairman emeritus.

Other new advisory council members for 2004-2005 are:

Michael Bayer, president, of Cupertino, Calif.-based solutions provider Computer Telephony Solutions. Bayer is also chairman of CompTIA's Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum (ECTF),

Michael Carpenter, president and chief executive officer, CT Source Inc., a Marblehead, Mass.-based provider of convergent technology solutions for voice, data, fax, and other business communications systems. Carpenter is also a founding member and former president of the CT Pioneers Section.

Todd Meister, vice president, global channel strategy and distribution for Avaya, Inc., a global leader in communication systems, applications and services.

Doug Dawkins, president, DRDC Group, a premier national converged communications solutions provider headquartered in San Francisco.

Ed Dylag is a product line manager in the Network Building Block Division at Intel. The Intel Corporation is the world's largest chip maker and a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products.

Craig Johnson, manager of business development for Catalyst Telecom of Greenville, S.C. Catalyst Telecom is a unit of international specialty technology distributor ScanSource, Inc., a leading distributor of voice, data, and converged communications solutions.

Jeff Myers, vice president, sales, Axess Communications Inc. of Littleton, Colo., a provider of communications solutions to small, medium and enterprise-level corporations.

Kelly Lumpkin, chief executive officer of Alternate Access, Inc., Raleigh, N.C., specialists in application development and integration of software-based telephone systems, interactive voice response, speech recognition, text-to-speech and fax servers.

CompTIA's CT Pioneers Section members are committed to providing educational opportunities to the marketplace on the benefits of convergent technologies; encouraging interoperability between a wide variety of vendors and service providers; and establishing high standards and business practices among all communications convergence professionals.

About CompTIA

CompTIA is a global trade association representing the business interests of the information technology industry. For more than 22 years CompTIA has provided research, networking and partnering opportunities to its more than 19,000 members in 89 countries. The association is involved in developing standards and best practices, and influencing the political, economic and educational arenas that impact IT worldwide. More information is at www.comptia.org.