IONA Announces Retirement of John Conroy from Board of Directors.Non-executive Directors Jim Maikranz and Bruce Ryan Appointed to Audit and Nominating Committees Respectively DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass. -- IONA[R] 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 : IONA), a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture See SOA. (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, announced that today Mr. John Conroy Sir John Conroy, 1st Baronet (21 October 1786 – 2 March 1854) was an Irish soldier and adventurer who served as Comptroller of the Household of Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the Duchess of Kent, the mother of the future Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and widow of retired from the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Conroy was first elected to IONA's Board in 2001. Immediately following Mr. Conroy's retirement, Director Jim Maikranz has been appointed to the Company's Audit Committee and Director Bruce Ryan has been appointed to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. Committee. "I've thoroughly enjoyed my tenure on IONA's Board of Directors and working with the IONA team. I am confident that IONA is very well positioned to take advantage of the growing demand for distributed SOA infrastructure solutions and I know the Company will continue to excel as I focus my attention on other endeavours," explained Mr. Conroy. "We thank John for his years of service and his contribution to IONA and we wish him well in the future," commented Kevin Melia, Chairman of IONA's Board of Directors. About IONA For more than a decade, IONA[R] Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix[R] products. Artix[TM], IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables customers to leverage distributed service-oriented architecture to streamline and modernize IT environments. The Celtix[TM] family of open source SOA infrastructure products allows customers to take advantage of the economic benefits associated with the use of open source software. IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 59,226 at the 2000 census. and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com. IONA, IONA Technologies IONA Technologies, NASDAQ: IONA, began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin and was founded by Chris Horn, Annrai O'Toole, Colin Newman and Seán Baker.[1][2] IONA maintains headquarter offices in Dublin, Boston and Tokyo. , the IONA logo, Orbix, High Performance Integration, Artix, Celtix, Celtix Enterprise and Making Software Work Together are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global is a trademark or registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks that may appear herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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