Exabyte appoints director of national accounts sales.

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 1994--Exabyte Corp. (NASDAQ:EXBT) Monday announced the appointment of Steven J. Orcutt to the new position of director of national accounts sales.

Formerly the director of Exabyte's U.S. Western Area sales, Orcutt reports to Martin R. McCoy, Jr., vice president of sales.

As director of national accounts sales, Orcutt oversees all sales to U.S. original equipment manufacturers and value-added resellers, as well as Exabyte's service, government and library sales programs.

Orcutt joined Exabyte in April 1991 as a sales representative and was promoted to Northern California district sales manager in January 1992. He was named U.S. Western Area sales director in October 1992. Before his Exabyte career, Orcutt held sales and sales management positions with high-tech companies such as Intel, Counterpoint and Convergent Technologies.

Continuing to head up the distribution portion of Exabyte's sales efforts is Douglas J. Smith, director of distribution sales. Sales through all channels in Europe and Asia continue to be overseen by Joop Van der Knaap, director of international sales.

Headquartered in Boulder, Colo., Exabyte Corp. designs, manufactures and markets a full range of tape storage products: 8mm, 4mm and quarter-inch minicartridge tape drives, tape libraries and recording media. Exabyte is the world's largest independent manufacturer focused solely on tape storage products, which it ships to a network of original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers and distributors.

CONTACT: Exabyte Corp., Boulder

Rebecca Herlinger, 303/447-7872