Don Jones new Respironics director.MURRYSVILLE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 1996--Respironics Inc. (NASDAQ/NMS:RESP RESP Response RESP Registered Education Savings Plan (Canada) Resp Responsibility Resp Respektive (Sweden: respectively) Resp Respiration RESP Respironics, Inc. ) announced that Donald H. Jones, 57, was elected a director at Wednesday's meeting of the company's board of directors. The action increases Respironics' board membership to nine, reported Dennis S Dennis is a male first name derived from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius meaning "servant of Dionysus", the Thracian god of wine, which is ultimately derived from the Greek Dios (Διος, "of Zeus") combined with Nysos or Nysa (Νυσα), where the . Meteny, president and chief executive officer. Currently, Jones serves as chairman of Industry.Net, an electronic news service offering subscribers an innovative approach to accessing the Internet's business-to-business online marketplace. He founded the company in 1990. Now employing 150, Industry.Net's client base numbers more than 4,000 companies. The founder of several technology-driven companies, Jones brings more than 30 years of business experience to his Respironics assignment. He first demonstrated his entrepreneurial spirit by leaving his position as chief electrical engineer at Goerz Optical Co. in 1968 to launch Control Systems Research. By then securely established as an international leader in a key industrial automation business niche, the firm was sold in 1976 to Contraves AG of Zurich, Switzerland. Subsequently, Jones founded Technology Recognition Corp. -- pioneering advances in computer publishing -- and International Cybernetics cybernetics [Gr.,=steersman], term coined by American mathematician Norbert Wiener to refer to the general analysis of control systems and communication systems in living organisms and machines. Corp., a developer of breakthrough factory automation control systems. A University of Pittsburgh graduate, Jones has received numerous awards for his business leadership. They include the 1986 Enterprise Award and Entrepreneur entrepreneur (än'trəprənûr`) [Fr.,=one who undertakes], person who assumes the organization, management, and risks of a business enterprise. of the Year recognition in 1990. He was inducted into the Southwest Pennsylvania Business Hall of Fame in 1992. Currently, Jones is an adjunct adjunct (aj´ungkt), n a drug or other substance that serves a supplemental purpose in therapy. adjunct professsor at Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). Business School. Respironics Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and sells respiratory medical products for use in the home, hospitals, and in emergency care situations. CONTACT: Respironics Inc., Murrysville Dorita A. Pishko, 412/733-0209 |
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