Digital Intelligence Strengthens Management Team With Addition of Iomega Executive; New Vice President to Head-Up Sales and Business Development.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 1999-- Digital Intelligence(tm), a leading developer of digital imaging software for consumer electronics products, today announced the appointment of Mike Lynch as vice president of sales and business development. Lynch will assume his new role beginning June 21 and will be responsible for Digital Intelligence's sales, licensing and strategic partnerships. He brings over 14 years of technology and business development experience from such companies as Iomega, Adaptec and Calera/Caere. Before coming to Digital Intelligence, Lynch was the worldwide director of the Beyond PC Applications group at Iomega. As worldwide director he founded the strategic business effort aimed at Zip(R) and Clik!(tm) penetration of non-PC products such as set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. , game devices, digital imaging products, printers and scanners, resulting in OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and deals with strategic partners such as Sega, Lexmark, Microtek and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. . From 1996 to 1998 Lynch was responsible for growing Iomega's Zip OEM product marketing and licensing business to more than half of all Zip drives See Zip disk. (hardware, storage) Zip Drive - A disk drive from Iomega Corporation which takes removable 100 megabyte hard disks. Both internal and external drives are manufactured, making the drive suitable for backup, mass storage or for moving files between computers. sold in 1998. "Mike's industry knowledge and experience working with major consumer electronics manufacturers and other Beyond PC partners is exactly what Digital Intelligence needs to be successful in the consumer electronics market," said Bill McCoy, president and 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. of Digital Intelligence. "Mike is committed to furthering digital imaging beyond the PC, which makes him a valuable addition to Digital Intelligence." "Digital Intelligence's vast digital imaging experience and technology is what drew me to the company," said Lynch. "While at Iomega, I saw first-hand the level of extreme interest our beyond-PC partners had in the solutions being offered by Digital Intelligence. They possess all the necessary ingredients for success: unmatched experience, strong financial backing, powerful technology that is simple to integrate and strong industry support. About Digital Intelligence Digital Intelligence, Inc. develops and licenses embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. digital imaging software technology that advances the digital photo and video capabilities and ease-of-use of consumer electronics devices. Digital Intelligence's software is optimized for embedding 1. (mathematics) embedding - One instance of some mathematical object contained with in another instance, e.g. a group which is a subgroup. 2. (theory) embedding - (domain theory) A complete partial order F in [X -> Y] is an embedding if in a variety of intelligent home appliances including set-top boxes, photo appliances, game consoles, printers, digital cameras and hand-held devices. For more information, visit www.dii.com. Digital Intelligence and Picture IQ are trademarks of Digital Intelligence Inc. Iomega, Zip, Jaz and Clik! are registered trademarks of Iomega Corporation (company, storage) Iomega Corporation - A storage device manufacturer whose major products are the Zip and Jaz removable disk drives and Ditto tape drives. They became popular with an early product called the Bernoulli Box. . All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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