Global Village appoints vice president of marketing for communication systems division.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 1996--Global Village Communication 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 :GVIL) has appointed John Weston For the British businessman, see . Sir John Weston KCMG (born 1938) is a retired British diplomat. He was the UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council (NATO) from 1992 to 1995, and the British Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) from 1995 to 1998. (Wes) Rose vice president of marketing for the Communication Systems Division. In this newly created position, Rose will head up all marketing efforts for the division, which currently develops and manufactures industry-leading fax/modems, PC Card fax/modems and network servers. "Wes brings extensive product marketing, corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. and management experience to Global Village," said Charlie Oppenheimer, vice president and general manager of the Communication Systems Division. "His skills will allow us to sharpen our focus on providing integrated communication solutions to personal computer users." Rose joined Global Village from Calera Recognition Systems, a $15 million optical character recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer. company, where he was vice president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . At Calera, Rose oversaw marketing, sales, technology development, technical support and customer service. Prior to joining Calera, in 1987, Rose founded a national marketing consortium, Fourpoint Corp., where he managed all marketing programs, product development and vendor negotiations. Previously, Rose spent seven years at Xidex Corp., where he held several managerial positions, including vice president, retail products; vice president, marketing; manager, product marketing; and manager of corporate planning. Rose completed his bachelor of arts degree at Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was and earned his master's degree in business administration from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Rose currently resides in Palo Alto, Calif. Global Village is a leading supplier of integrated communication solutions for personal computer users. CONTACT: The Bohle Co., Los Angeles Kim Uberti/Pam Swartwood, 310/785-0515, ext. 215/252 kim@bohle.com or pswart@bohle.com |
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