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Conner Peripherals was founded in 1986 by Seagate Technology co-founder Finis Conner, as a merger between a company of his and another started by MiniScribe founders John Squires and Terry Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CNR See riser card. CNR - Communication and Network Riser ), Tuesday announced the appointment of two new executives to manage its sales and engineering functions. Conner Storage Systems named Kumar Sreekanti as vice president of engineering and Michael Downs as senior director of worldwide sales. Both executives will report to Joel Appelbaum, senior vice president and general manager of Conner Storage Systems. "The expertise that Kumar Sreekanti and Michael Downs bring to Conner will be instrumental as we continue to enhance our position in the RAID marketplace," said Appelbaum. "Their sales and engineering management experience will greatly contribute to Conner's continuing ability to provide advanced storage subsystems to the reseller and enduser channel." As vice president of engineering, Sreekanti assumes overall responsibility for all engineering research and development of Conner storage systems products, including the high-performance disk array storage subsystmes for video server and other specialized applications. Before joining Conner, Sreekanti served as senior director of engineering at Micropolis Corp., where he oversaw all design and development aspects of their subsystem storage products. Earlier, Sreekanti held several consulting and engineering management positions at International Software Designs, Norsk Data (India) LTD LTD 1 Laron-type dwarfism 2 Leukotriene D 3 Long-term depression, see there 4. Long-term disability , and Digital Software Systems. Sreekanti earned a master of science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India. Michael Downs will be responsible for expanding Conner's presence within the distribution and value-added reseller channels. Prior to joining Conner, Downs held the position of director of sales for Micropolis Corp. Earlier, Downs held positions in sales management at Storage Dimensions and Seagate Technology Inc. Downs earned a bachelor of science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree in business administration and computer science from California State University, Chico References 1. ^ "California State University, Chico", Yahoo! Education, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-28. . Based in Lake Mary, Conner Storage Systems offers a complete line of hardware and software RAID products for a variety of operating systems, including Novell NetWare, Microsoft NT Server, SCO UNIX, 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) OS/2 LAN Server, and IBM OS/2 Warp. The group sells products through a worldwide network of dealers, distributors and value-added resellers. Founded in 1986, Conner sells, designs and builds a comprehensive line of information storage solutions products, including disk drives, tape drives, storage management software and disk array storage systems, for a wide range of computer applications. Conner had 1994 sales of $2.4 billion. -0- Note to Editors: All trademarks or registered trademarks are those of their respective owners. CONTACT: Conner Peripherals, Lake Mary Vicki White, Manager, Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , 407/262-4202 or Joel Reich, Director of Marketing, 407/262-4843 or Agency Contact: Copithorne & Bellows, Boston Albie Jarvis, 617/252-0606 |
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