Data General Names Anthony C. Nicoletti to Head Sales Force Expansion Program.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 1999-- Data General Corporation announced today that Vice President Anthony C. Nicoletti has been named to head the sales force expansion program announced by President and Chief Executive Officer Ronald L. Skates Skates may refer to:
At the recent CLARiiON Storage Area Network (SAN) press conference, Mr. Skates announced that over the next 18 months Data General plans to hire in excess of 450 people for its CLARiiON organization, the majority of whom will be direct sales people. The additional expense of these people, and related marketing efforts, is expected to be more than $100 million over that period. "The market for Fibre Channel based storage systems is projected to grow at 65 percent annually for the next five years," said Mr. Skates. "As the leader in Fibre Channel technology, Data General has a tremendous growth opportunity. To capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. this opportunity we must aggressively bring our CLARiiON products to market, and to do that we need to dramatically expand our end-user selling capabilities." "Tony Nicoletti's 20-year career in sales and general management with Data General in both the U.S. and international operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. uniquely qualifies him for this assignment," said Mr. Skates. "Tony's responsibilities will include all aspects of the sales recruitment, hiring, training, and assimilation process." In this new assignment, Mr. Nicoletti will report directly to Mr. Skates, while working closely with the company's Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. and line sales organizations. The assignment is effective immediately and will continue until the program is successfully concluded. "By placing a senior Data General executive in this key role, we can aggressively pursue our hiring and training goals while allowing CLARiiON management to focus on the growth of the CLARiiON business," said Mr. Skates. Mr. Nicoletti, who joined Data General in 1977, served in a variety of sales and management positions in the U.S., Canada and Japan before taking on his most recent assignment as Vice President of Asia Pacific. He has been responsible for all sales and service activities within the Asia region for both CLARiiON and AViiON products. Prior to that he served as president of Data General's Canadian operations from 1992 to 1994. He will be based in Data General's Westboro, Massachusetts headquarters. About Data General Data General (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DGN DGN Design (file) DGN Dirección General de Normas (Standards Organization in Mexico) DGN MicroStation Design File (file format/extension) ), based in Westboro, Massachusetts, is a major supplier of storage and enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. solutions for customers worldwide. The company's products include CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage systems, high-end NT and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). AViiON servers, and related software and services. Data General reported fiscal 1997 revenues of $1.5 billion. Additional information on the company, its products, and services is available on the Internet at www.dg.com. CLARiiON is a registered trademark of Data General Corporation. |
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