Daniel P. Burnham, Former Raytheon Co. Chairman and CEO, Elected to Green Hills Software Board of Directors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2004 Prominent Executive Brings Experience from Raytheon, AlliedSignal and Numerous Professional Organizations Green Hills Software Inc., the market leader in embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. development tools and royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. ), announced today the election of Daniel P. Burnham to its board of directors. "Dan Burnham brings a wealth of diversified industry experience and a deep knowledge of the aerospace and defense business," said Dan O'Dowd Dan O'Dowd has served as the General Manager of the Colorado Rockies since September 20, 1999. Before being hired by the Rockies he spent 15 years working for the Baltimore Orioles and Cleveland Indians, working his way from Accounts Manager to Director of Baseball Operations / , Green Hills Software's chief executive officer and founder. "Dan's knowledge will help Green Hills build on its leadership position and we are pleased to have a corporate leader of Dan's caliber join our board." Dan Burnham commented, "I am thrilled to be on the Green Hills board and a member of this exceptional team. I'm impressed with Dan O'Dowd's strategic vision and the company's technological leadership and history of growth and profitability in key industries including aerospace and defense." Most recently, Burnham was chairman and chief executive officer of Raytheon Co., a leader in the defense, government and commercial electronics markets with approximately $17 billion in annual sales. Prior to joining Raytheon, Burnham was vice chairman of AlliedSignal Inc. and president of AlliedSignal Aerospace. In 2000 Burnham received a presidential appointment as chairman of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. He also served as chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association from 2001 to 2003. He is a director of FleetBoston Financial FleetBoston Financial was a Boston, Massachusetts-based bank created in 1999 by the merger of Fleet Financial Group and BankBoston. In 2004 it merged with Bank of America; all of its banks and branches were given the Bank of America logo. , First Data Corp. and the Congressional Medal of Honor Congressional Medal of Honor n. The highest U.S. military decoration, awarded in the name of Congress to members of the armed forces for gallantry and bravery beyond the call of duty in action against an enemy. Noun 1. Foundation. In 2002, Burnham was named Six Sigma Not to be confused with Sigma 6. Six Sigma is a set of practices originally developed by Motorola to systematically improve processes by eliminating defects.[1] A defect is defined as nonconformity of a product or service to its specifications. Executive-of-the-Year by the International Society of Six Sigma Professionals. About Green Hills Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software Inc. is the technology leader for real-time operating systems (RTOS) and software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. . The company's royalty-free INTEGRITY RTOS, compilers, MULTI MULTI Multiple and AdaMULTI Integrated Development Environments and TimeMachine Debugger offer a complete development solution that addresses embedded systems from the lowest cost consumer products to the most safety-critical aircraft flight systems. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif., with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. For more information on Green Hills Software products, call 805-965-6044, e-mail sales@ghs.com or visit us on the Web at www.ghs.com. Green Hills Software, the Green Hills logo, MULTI, INTEGRITY, AdaMULTI and TimeMachine are trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software Inc. in the United States and/or internationally. All other trademarks and products are the property of their respective owners. |
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