Digital Fountain Announces Two New Vice Presidents; Industry Veterans Help Round Out Executive Team.Business Editors/Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2000 Digital Fountain, the leading innovator in delivering high-demand rich content to television-scale Internet audiences, today announced that Chris McComb has joined the company as vice president of operations, and Bob Maynard has joined as vice president of sales. Chris McComb brings a solid reputation in domestic and international manufacturing, materials management Materials management is the branch of logistics that deals with the tangible components of a supply chain. Specifically, this covers the acquisition of spare parts and replacements, quality control of purchasing and ordering such parts, and the standards involved in ordering, and product logistics to Digital Fountain. He has held the positions of vice president operations, chipshot.com; director of commodity management, Bay Networks; vice president operations, Revo, Inc.; director of manufacturing, Tengen; and a variety of domestic and international positions with Data General Corporation. Mr. McComb holds an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration in international business from Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. University and a BA from St. Edward's University
The school was founded by the Rev. Edward Sorin, CSC , Superior General of the Congregation of Holy Cross, who also founded the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. . At Digital Fountain, McComb will focus on designing and implementing the company's supply chain system and building a staff that can aggressively identify and secure strategic manufacturing partners. Additionally, he will develop the necessary internal infrastructure systems to support both product fulfillment and customer support. Bob Maynard comes to Digital Fountain with a reputation for building high tech start-ups into profitable businesses. Under Maynard's tenure as vice president of sales for Marimba marimba: see xylophone. marimba Xylophone with resonators under each bar. The original African instrument uses tuned calabash resonators. In Mexico and Central America, where it was brought by African slaves, the wooden bars may be affixed to a , Inc., the company grew from a pre-IPO startup to a profitable company in a very short period of time. As vice president of North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. sales at Tivoli Systems, Mr. Maynard helped to build a small start-up into a 1500 employee organization. Prior to Tivoli, Mr. Maynard held sales positions at Compuware Corporation (company) Compuware Corporation - A software and service company with over 11,000 employees worldwide, including more than 7,000 in its professional services organisation. Since 1973, Compuware has focused on optimising business software development, testing, and operation. and Legent Corporation. He received his degree in Business Administration and Accounting from Triton College Triton College is a two-year community college located in River Grove, Illinois, a suburb 14 miles (23 km) northwest of downtown Chicago. Triton College offers an education as well as career-oriented learning opportunities. . As vice president of sales, Maynard will focus on building both a direct sales and channel sales organization to drive Digital Fountain's revenue and to quickly establish market share in the fast growing content delivery space. Additionally, he will form a field operations organization and a sales support team. "Chris McComb and Bob Maynard are the perfect veterans to help lead Digital Fountain toward product and profitability," said Cliff Meltzer, chief executive officer of Digital Fountain. "Chris has proven time and again that he can put together the right mix of partners and internal operations to rapidly deliver a quality product and support it. Bob has consistently built sales organizations that drive revenue in dynamic and complex markets. Both will be instrumental into turning Digital Fountain's momentum into marketshare." About Digital Fountain (www.digitalfountain.com) Digital Fountain is a leading innovator in Internet content delivery with its patent-pending technology that dramatically reduces system resources (1) In a computer system, system resources are the components that provide its inherent capabilities and contribute to its overall performance. System memory, cache memory, hard disk space, IRQs and DMA channels are examples. required by transforming original media into a unique meta-content structure. This technology enables Digital Fountain content and streaming servers to support any user-base regardless of its size or concurrency Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide complete overlapping of two independent processes. See dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP. concurrency - multitasking while utilizing system loads that can be orders of magnitude less than other techniques. Digital Fountain servers further optimize existing enterprise or service provider infrastructures by making all requesters appear as a single virtual user and thus enable unparalleled user concurrency, maximized resources and superior system predictability. Additional information may be obtained by calling Digital Fountain at +415/401-2100, sending a fax to +415/401-2199, or sending e-mail to press@digitalfountain.com. Company information is also available on the web at www.digitalfountain.com. |
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