Data General Names John Gavin Chief Financial Officer, Robert McBride Chief Administrative Officer.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 1999--Data General Corporation announced today that Vice President John Gavin has been named chief financial officer and corporate controller and Vice President Robert McBride Robert McBride (born July 6, 1963 in Durban, South Africa) is the chief of the Metropolitan Police for Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. A convicted terrorist. During the apartheid era he was a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, and has been appointed chief administrative officer A chief administrative officer (CAO) is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental corporations. The CAO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, managing daily operations and usually reporting directly to the chief executive and treasurer. Both Mr. Gavin and Mr. McBride report to Data General President and Chief Executive Officer Ronald Skates. "This alignment of financial and administrative responsibilities within the senior management team leverages the strengths of both John Gavin and Bob McBride. Each brings more than ten years of senior management experience covering nearly every aspect of Data General's financial operations to their new corporate positions," said Mr. Skates. As chief financial officer and corporate controller, Mr. Gavin is responsible for the company's worldwide controller functions, as well as investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. and corporate planning and accounting. As chief administrative officer and treasurer Mr. McBride is responsible for corporate treasury, 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. , facilities and leasing functions. Mr. Gavin joined Data General in 1988 as director of corporate accounting and was named treasurer in 1990. He was appointed vice president and corporate controller in 1996. Prior to joining Data General, he was with Price Waterhouse for ten years. Mr. McBride has been with Data General since 1983 when he joined the company as manufacturing controller. He was appointed corporate controller in 1989 and promoted to vice president in 1991. He became corporate treasurer in 1996. Before coming to Data General, Mr. McBride held a variety of information systems and finance management positions at Burroughs Corporation. 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 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. |
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