Connected Corporation Appoints Frank Tino as Vice President of Engineering; 20-Year Software Industry Veteran to Lead Company's Product Development Initiatives.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2003 Connected(TM) Corporation, the market-leading provider of PC data protection solutions, today announced Frank Tino's appointment to vice president of Engineering. Tino will direct the design and development of the company's leading PC data protection solutions. "Frank is a critical hire," said Bob Brennan, 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 Connected Corporation. "With over 20 years of experience, Frank has a proven track record of developing and managing multiple product lines for companies like Revenio, Informix, Red Brick Systems, and Engage. He will play a key role in our engineering organization and help Connected deliver against an aggressive product roadmap in the coming years." In 1999, Tino co-founded Revenio, a customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) company specializing in dialog marketing. As vice president of Product, Tino built the engineering organization and shepherded the company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Revenio Dialog, from inception through four major releases and multiple product lines. Tino has also held executive-level positions at Informix (acquired by IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) in 2001), Red Brick Systems, and Engage Technologies, Inc., a CMGI CMGI Commonly Maintained Grounds Infrastructures CMGI College Marketing Group Information (Services) company, which offers software solutions and services that streamline the advertising production process. At Informix, Tino served as the director of Product Development for the company's Data Warehouse division, where he was responsible for the rollout of a high-end data extraction Data extraction is the act or process of retrieving (binary) data out of (usually unstructured or badly structured) data sources for further data processing or data storage (data migration). and transformation tool called Informix Formation. Earlier in his career, Tino held management positions at AT&T and Wang Laboratories Wang Laboratories - Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994). . "Connected has continually leveraged an exceptionally strong base of engineering talent to develop and enhance the market's leading solution for automated client data protection," said Tino. "I'm excited to join this team and committed to bringing my experience to bear as we work to fully exploit the company's current and future technical strengths." A Billerica, Massachusetts Billerica (IPA: [bɪl.'ɹɪ.kə]) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 38,981 at the 2000 census. Its name is pronounced "bill-RICK-a", rather than rhyming with America. native, Tino received both a bachelor's of science degree in Computer Science and a master's in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T. About Connected Corporation Connected Corporation is the market-leading provider of automated PC data protection solutions. Connected's patented technology automatically prevents data loss and helps ensure business continuity while significantly reducing the costs and burdens associated with managing and storing enterprise PC data. More than 500 of the world's largest corporations, including Boeing, Citgo Petroleum, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Goodrich, Hewlett Packard, Iron Mountain, PeopleSoft, SAP and Schlumberger, depend on Connected to protect their data assets. The award-winning Connected solution is offered as a subscription service or as licensed software. Connected is based in Framingham, Massachusetts, with multiple U.S. and international offices. For more information visit www.connected.com or call 1-800-353-3078. Connected is a trademark of Connected Corporation. All names and trademarks are the property of their respective holders. |
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