Deliverex Names Brian Smiga CEO.Business &Technology Editors Demo 2000 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000 New York's Silicon Alley-based Deliverex Inc. today announced the appointment of Brian Smiga as chief executive officer and president. A technology entrepreneur and marketing veteran with 12 years of award-winning software experience, Mr. Smiga will lead Deliverex in the third-quarter market introduction of Deliverex(TM), the Internet's first priority content delivery service. Deliverex was part of a select group of companies chosen to debut this week at DEMO 2000 as one of the hottest new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. infrastructure technologies. &uot;We were seeking product instincts combined with deep entrepreneurial experience,&uot; said Charlie Federman, Managing Director of the BRM BRM biologic response modifier. BRM Biological response modifier, see there Group, the venture capital firm that backed Deliverex. &uot;Brian has started three award-winning companies, so he's the kind of tenacious, visionary, and well-connected entrepreneur that we like to back for the long-haul.&uot; &uot;The need for simple, rich, and secure priority content delivery in electronic mail is obvious. Businesses will be able to save over using costly and inefficient courier services and USMAIL to exchange priority documents with customers,&uot; said Mr. Smiga. &uot;Our vision for Deliverex is to lead the market space for priority content delivery, which looks like a potential $10 billion market by 2003.&uot; &uot;As 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. , Brian brings valuable partner and business development relationships; he's created business relationships with ACCO ACCO American College of Chiropractic Orthopedists ACCO Association of County Commissioners of Oklahoma ACCo American Cyanamid Company ACCO Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Organization ACCO American Clip Company ACCO Assistant Central Control Officer , Apple, 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. , CMGI CMGI Commonly Maintained Grounds Infrastructures CMGI College Marketing Group Information (Services) , GE, 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) , Lotus, MasterCard, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , Microsoft,&uot; said Yariv Kafri, Director of Partner Development. Most recently, Mr. Smiga served as Senior Vice President for Marketing and Business Development at 1ClickCharge.com - a CMGI company, the content payment service that will launch in March 2000. Before that, he was co-founder and president of award winning, San Francisco-based companies, Actioneer, Inc. and Daytoday.com. Mr. Smiga has extensive product management and launch experience, having debuted products and companies at Demo in 1997 and 1998, at PC Forum 1999, and at various venture forums. He was co-author of patents for Actioneer, and was a pioneer of graphical, easy-to-use award-winning products like Dynodex, a contact manager and DynoPage. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin For other institutions named Trinity College, see . Trinity is located in the centre of Dublin, Ireland, on College Green opposite the former Irish Houses of Parliament (now a branch of the Bank of Ireland). and from Swarthmore College Swarthmore College, at Swarthmore, Pa.; coeducational; founded 1864 by the Society of Friends. It maintains a cooperative program with Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, and the Univ. of Pennsylvania. . He has taught at private schools and at Booz-Allen &Hamilton. Deliverex's directors will include Charlie Federman, chairman and managing director of The BRM Group, and Eli Barkat, chairman and chief executive officer of BackWeb Technologies. Deliverex recently completed a second round financing of over ten million dollars. About Deliverex www.deliverex.com Deliverex was incubated in 1999 by the BRM Group and a core group of developers. The founders envisioned a priority, permission-based, simple to use, and fully outsourced content delivery exchange service for all digital content, aimed at individuals and businesses, which would enable time-sensitive exchange of information. Global trends of larger digital content (presentations, graphics, video, photography, music), uneven bandwidth availability, security needs, and pervasive communications indicated a large market opportunity for the Deliverex service. On February 7, 2000, at Demo 2000, Deliverex will announce its service and begin signing up business partners and beta testers in anticipation of a Q3 2000 service launch. |
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