Fulcrum announces expansion, appointments; Two new VPs, regional sales directors add breadth and depth says Fulcrum CEO.OTTOWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 1995--Fulcrum Technologies (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 :FULCF) today announced two appointments for new executive positions, vice president of Asia Pacific sales and vice president of customer services, effective immediately. It also announced the recent expansion of its North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. sales organization. As Fulcrum's newly appointed vice president of Asia Pacific sales, Joseph Nardi will have responsibility for driving Fulcrum's sales efforts in the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . Formerly a vice president and managing director at Legent Corp., Nardi helped that company exceed its previous records for Canadian performance. Prior to joining Legent, Nardi was vice president of Canadian and Pacific Rim operations at Cognos Inc. There he launched Cognos' Australian operations and played a key role in increased market penetration Noun 1. market penetration - the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market penetration - the act of entering into or through something; "the penetration of upper management by women" in the Pacific Rim region. Nardi's employment history includes positions at Honeywell Information Systems, Sperry Univac (company) Sperry Univac - One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation. and Monroe Business Systems. Suanne Day is newly appointed as Fulcrum's vice president of customer services. As such, she will be responsible for all aspects of Fulcrum's customer services department. Day comes to Fulcrum fulcrum: see lever. from Cognos, where she made a significant contribution to that organization's success as director of worldwide customer support. Prior to Cognos, Day was with ComputerLand Canada (now SHL SHL Shift Logical Left SHL Schweizerische Hochschule für Landwirtschaft (German: Swiss College of Agriculture) SHL Southern Hockey League SHL Silver Haired Legislature SHL Single Hidden Layer (neural networks) Computer Innovations), where she was responsible for launching corporate initiatives in total quality management and outbound telesales and telesupport, as well as introducing a business solutions sales and support group for the Quebec region. A Certified Management Consultant Certified Management Consultant (CMC) is an international professional certification for Management consulting professionals, awarded by institutes in 44 countries (as of December 2006). , her earlier experience includes working as an information systems management consultant for Price Waterhouse, Peat Marwick and Arthur Andersen For the U.S. Supreme Court case commonly known as Arthur Andersen, see . Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (the other four are PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG), performing . "Mr. Nardi and Ms. Day are strong additions to our management team," said Eric Goodwin, Fulcrum's president and chief executive officer. "These positions will add breadth and depth to Fulcrum's corporate structure, and support our strategy to provide a solid base for continued growth and success of the kind we experienced in 1994," he added, in reference to Fulcrum's recently announced, record breaking financial results. In keeping with this corporate strategy, Fulcrum also announced the expansion of its North American sales organization and the appointment of four regional sales directors. Joining Fulcrum is Lanny Klassen, as regional director, Canadian sales. Formerly president and founder of IMATA IMATA International Marine Animal Trainer's Association Consulting, Klassen brings valuable experience in working with government and large Canadian corporate accounts. John Woodbury was appointed regional director, U.S. Southeast sales, to oversee Fulcrum's new Atlanta office. Woodbury was formerly with Intelogic Trace Inc., where he was general manager of operations, Southeastern U.S., and, prior to that, he worked with Wang Laboratories Inc., where he held progressively responsible sales positions. Other regional directors were promoted from within the Fulcrum sales organization. Eric Treworgy, who joined Fulcrum in 1994, has assumed the role of regional director, U.S. Northeast sales, and Terry Stempel, who came to Fulcrum in 1993, has become regional director, U.S. West sales. "Fulcrum is fortunate in being able to attract this caliber of people to its sales organization," said Larry Trenwith, Fulcrum's vice president of North American sales. "These appointments will ensure we maintain good contact with our growing customer base and continue to provide a high level of service." About Fulcrum Since 1983, Fulcrum Technologies has been a leading vendor of text-retrieval software because of the strength of its core indexing and searching engine, its open systems strategy, and its tools approach. Used by large and medium-sized organizations, Fulcrum's software provides access to corporate intellectual capital stored electronically, in particular on client/server computer networks. Fulcrum customers include Microsoft (The Microsoft Network), Fujitsu, National Semiconductor, Florida Power and Banca di Roma. Fulcrum's technology is also licensed for use in products offered by Saros, Frame, Interleaf Desktop publishing software that was widely used for DOS, Windows 95/98, NT, and a variety of Unix-based computers from Interleaf, Inc., Waltham, MA. Interleaf's full-featured program supported a large number of document and image types, including its ability to handle extremely long and Corel, among others. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Fulcrum is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol "FULCF." -0- Fulcrum is a registered trademark of Fulcrum Technologies Inc. Other trademarks used throughout this document are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Fulcrum Gillian Brouse, 613/238-1761 email: gillianb@fultech.com or Rourke & Co. Sally Winship, 617/267-0042 e-mail: swinship@rourke.com INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMED COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS REPEATS: New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. 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