Microtest Appoints Senior Vice President.PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 1998--Microtest 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 :MTST MTST Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (Social movement of Brazil) MTST Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter MTST Maneuvering Target Statistical Tracker MTST Minimal Task Spanning Tree ), a producer of computer network products, Monday announced the appointment of Robert M. Tanner The code name for the Xeon version of the Pentium III chip. See Xeon. to senior vice president, sales, marketing and customer services. This organization includes the field-based and headquarters personnel in these customer-focused organizations. Tanner was promoted from the position of vice president, worldwide marketing and services at Microtest to the senior position. Tanner will continue his management of the marketing and services organizations and will also be responsible for Microtest's field and home office sales managers sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → of the Americas and Asia-Pacific. Microtest distributes its products through a two-tier distribution model of authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: distributors, resellers and a major account organization. Tanner served as the company's vice president of worldwide field operations from May 1994 through June 1997, when he moved into the position of vice president, worldwide marketing and services. From February 1992 to April 1994, Tanner was the vice president of U.S. sales, for Data General Corp., a publicly held company that manufactures computers and computer peripheral equipment. From February 1988 to October 1991, he was the senior vice president of worldwide field operations of Sequent (Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., Beaverton, OR, www.sequent.com) A computer company founded in 1983 by 17 ex-employees of Intel that specialized in multiprocessing systems for the client/server environment. Computer Systems Inc., a publicly held computer manufacturer. "Mr. Tanner's experience in leading sales organizations, his experience with the marketing and service aspects of our business, and his tenure with Microtest, make him an outstanding choice to be named Microtest's first senior vice president," said Richard G. Meise, chairman and chief executive officer of Microtest. Founded in 1984, Microtest is a leading worldwide manufacturer of troubleshooting certification and network information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. products for local area networks (LANS LANS Local Area Network Server (Cisco) LANS Landelijk Actieplatform voor Nationalistische Studenten LANS Leadership Alliance National Symposium LANS Los Angeles AFB Network Support (DOD) ) and enterprise networks. Microtest's mission is to be on every network. The company has pioneered several networking products, such as PentaScanner(R), CertiFiber(R) and DiscPort(R). Microtest is headquartered at 4747 North 22nd Street, Phoenix, AZ, with European operations in Munich, Germany and Crawley, UK. Microtest is found on the Internet at www.microtest.com.
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