Daniel C. Agan joins Excalibur Technologies as vice president of worldwide marketing.VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 1996--Excalibur Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :EXCA EXCA Exchangeable Card Architecture EXCA European Expanded Clay Association (Brussels, Belgium) ), a leading provider of software solutions for electronic information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. , Wednesday announced the appointment of Daniel C. Agan as vice president of worldwide marketing. A veteran marketing executive, Agan will be a key member of Excalibur's executive staff with responsibility for bringing together marketing functions for Excalibur worldwide, including: corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. , product management, 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 , program marketing and strategic planning. Agan brings to Excalibur over 23 years of experience in marketing, marketing communications and strategic business development. Agan is the former president and chief executive officer of Agan Associates, a marketing consulting firm with extensive experience in the technology, on-line and broadcasting industries. As a principal in the firm for the past six years, Agan provided executive-level marketing consulting services to a diverse range of clients, including the Public Broadcasting Service “PBS” redirects here. For other uses, see PBS (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS (PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, ), America Online (AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ), Icarus Aircraft Corp. and National Datacast. Prior to this, Agan spent 15 years with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) where he served in a variety of capacities, most notably as senior vice president for National Programming and Promotion. In that position, he managed a staff of 80 marketing, advertising, programming and communications professionals. Agan had operational responsibility for all national program administration, program scheduling, advertising, promotion and public relations activities at PBS. He was also instrumental in the successful launch of two for-profit subsidiaries of the corporation: PBS Enterprises and PBS Distribution Services. "The addition of Dan Agan to Excalibur completes our mission of putting together a strong, experienced executive management team, capable of strategically capitalizing on the growth that Excalibur is currently undergoing," said Pat Condo, president & 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 Excalibur. "In Dan, we have found a marketing veteran that has been extremely successful in all of his past positions and ventures. In particular, his proven ability to build brand recognition should have an impact on us as we move into the second half of our year. Dan is uniquely and superbly qualified to help the Excalibur team continue its growth as a leader in the information retrieval and management marketplace." "Excalibur's unparalleled family of information retrieval products uniquely positions it to capitalize on a marketplace teeming teem 1 v. teemed, teem·ing, teems v.intr. 1. To be full of things; abound or swarm: A drop of water teems with microorganisms. 2. with opportunity," said Agan. "I join the Excalibur team with great anticipation and enthusiasm for enhancing recognition of Excalibur as the growing leader in information retrieval and knowledge management solutions." Excalibur Technologies Corp. Excalibur Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:EXCA) has set the standard for excellence in information retrieval since 1980, leading the industry in delivering high-performance search and retrieval solutions to the online, federal and corporate markets. Only Excalibur delivers semantic toolkits and imaging applications based on both pattern-recognition and semantic network searching, which leverages the underlying patterns of digital information and the actual meaning of words. RetrievalWare provides the first set of tools optimized for creating retrieval solutions for text, images and other forms of digital media. Contact Excalibur in North America at 800-788-7758, in the United Kingdom at 44-1344-893-444, via e-mail at info@excalib.com or visit our web site at www.excalib.com. -0- Excalibur Technologies Corp. and the Excalibur logo are registered trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corp. APRP APRP Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (Convera) APrP A Priori Probability and RetrievalWare are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corp. CONTACT: Excalibur Technologies, Vienna Corporate Contact: Mark D. Demers, 703/761-3700 demers@excalib.com or Fleishman-Hillard Press Contact: Cyrus Bamji, 202/659-0330 cbamji@fleishman.com |
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