Enzo Torresi joins First Virtual Corp. board of directors.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. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 1994--Ralph Ungermann's new company, the First Virtual Corp. (FVC FVC forced vital capacity. FVC abbr. forced vital capacity FVC, n See forced vital capacity. FVC forced vital capacity. ), Monday announced the appointment of Enzo Torresi, a computer networking
Computer networking is the engineering discipline concerned with communication between computer systems or devices. and distribution pioneer, to its board of directors. "FVC will benefit greatly from Torresi's wealth of high technology industry experience, particularly in the area of channel development, and his acute understanding of how to deliver compute-intensive applications, such as multimedia, to client/server environments," said Ralph Ungermann, chief executive officer and founder of FVC. Most recently Torresi co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of NetFRAME Systems Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :NETF NETF NATO Expanded Task Force NETF Nuclear Energy Test Facility ) a Milpitas, Calif.-based manufacturer of fault-tolerant clustered network servers. Prior to that, he was vice chairman of the board and senior vice president of sales and marketing at Businessland, an international computer reseller, which he cofounded with David Norman
David Mark Norman (born 30 January 1941) is an English management consultant and entrepreneur. in 1982. Prior to Businessland, Torresi was president and founder of Olivetti's Advanced Technology Center in Cupertino, Calif. Torresi also currently serves on the board of NetFRAME Systems and Jabil Circuit Jabil NYSE: JBL is a provider of electronic manufacturing services. Jabil designs and manufactures electronic circuit boards for major OEMs in a diverse group of industries including automotive, computing and storage, consumer products, medical, networking, peripherals and Co. Inc., both public companies and other private high technology companies. "FVC has uniquely solved the issues involved in bringing multimedia-enriched applications to the departmental desktop user," said Enzo Torresi. "The company has a clear vision of how to implement network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. in such a way that benefits the end user and the application developer alike. I'm excited to be part of such an innovative technology team." Torresi joins an experienced board of directors at FVC including Neal Douglas, David Norman, James Swartz and Ralph Ungermann. Douglas is a general partner with AT&T Ventures, which is chartered to make venture capital investments for AT&T. Norman is currently chief executive officer of Network Application Technology, chairman of the board of several start-up companies, co-founder of Businessland and former chief executive officer of Dataquest. Swartz is the managing director of Accel Partners and sits on the board of 10 private and public companies. Founded in 1993, First Virtual Corp.'s mission is to enable the widespread deployment of desktop multimedia applications that allow organizations to enrich information sharing. FVC is the first company to provide a desktop media operating system, media server and low-cost ATM-based network that are compatible with existing LANs, data applications and the major network computing platforms. CONTACT: First Virtual Corp.
Doug Tsui, 408/748-2223
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Cynthia L. Stirling or Julie Karbo, 415/513-0972/0974
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