Concierge Inc. Strengthens Board of Directors With the Addition of Herbert Marcus III.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000 Concierge Inc., which recently announced plans to merge with Palm Springs, Calif.-based Starfest Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :SFST SFST Standardized Field Sobriety Test SFST Spent Fuel Storage Tank ), has named Herbert Marcus III to its board of directors, it was announced today by Concierge President Allen E. Kahn. Marcus has more than 30 years' executive experience in real estate management and as a private investor. He began his career with Harry Camp Co., San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , an operator of leased departments in retail department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. . He then joined the real estate brokerage firm, Hickman Hope Co., in Dallas, and subsequently Lawrence Miller Co., Dallas. He was a founding partner of AMS AMS - Andrew Message System Interests, a real estate brokerage and investment management firm located in Dallas, and pursued various private investment interests. He was senior vice president, International Investment Division of Henry S. Miller/Grubb &Ellis Co., Dallas, from 1982 to 1990. He joined Burgess Management Corp. in 1991 and is currently senior vice president, real estate management. Marcus attended Menlo College The sprawling campus is on the border of affluent Atherton and Menlo Park, and is adjacent to its former partner institution, Menlo School. In 1927, the college program became a separate junior college from Menlo School and continues to share the same campus. and has been involved in community affairs in Dallas for more than 30 years. He is a member of a pioneer Texas family and is the grandson of the late Herbert Marcus Sr., founder of Neiman-Marcus. &uot;We are very pleased that Herbert Marcus III has agreed to join our board of directors,&uot; said Kahn. &uot;We believe his depth of experience will be of considerable benefit to our company as we begin the commercialization of our first generation of products and as we complete the planned merger with Starfest Inc. &uot;Over the next few months we intend to continue to strengthen our company's board of directors and our management team to enable a smooth transition from private company to a fully reporting public company,&uot; he added. Concierge was founded by Kahn to design, market and support a new class of unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. products. These products integrate voice technology and pioneering software as a solution to the remote access needs of Internet e-mail, fax and voicemail users. The company is preparing to introduce a software package (the Personal Communications Attendant or PCA (tool, programming) PCA - A dynamic analyser from DEC giving information on run-time performance and code use. ) that will enable Internet e-mail users to have e-mail, received on their personal computers, read to them over any telephone as instructed by the user's voice commands. This product is expected to be introduced into the personal communications market in 30 days. Concierge plans continuing enhancements to the core product (PCA), including foreign language versions, and has additional unique products in the final stages of development. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the &uot;safe harbor&uot; provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. The company disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements. |
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