NowSpeed Establishes Executive Advisory Board; Board to Help Guide Strategic Corporate and Product Direction for Wireless Internet Services Provider.Business/Technology Editors FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2000 NowSpeed, Inc., a wireless Internet Application Service Provider (ASP), today announced the establishment of its NowSpeed Executive Advisory Board. Comprised of noted leaders in the communications and technology industries, the advisory board will help to guide the company's strategic direction as NowSpeed moves aggressively into the wireless Internet services arena. NowSpeed offers busy professionals innovative wireless Internet services that allow real-time access to corporate email, through a variety of wireless devices, including mobile phones (WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. and cellular), PDAs (Palm and CE) and pagers. NowSpeed's suite of affordable, easy-to-use services will improve corporate efficiency, enhance enterprise communications and increase workday productivity. "We are thrilled to be working with such an accomplished and experienced board of advisors," said David Reske, chief executive officer of NowSpeed. "While each member has strong entrepreneurial experience and has built terrific companies, they each bring distinct knowledge and success in sales, marketing and engineering. These will be very instrumental as NowSpeed expands." Initial members of NowSpeed's Executive Advisory Board include: --James Saviano: Saviano is global vice president of e-business strategy at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Saviano co-founded Computer Partners, a management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects and systems integration company, which was acquired in 1986 by CSC. As a result, Saviano became president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CSC Consulting, the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. consulting and systems integration business of CSC. Previously, Saviano held positions at Keane Associates. Saviano is a member of the Board of Directors of Strategic Pricing Group, a privately held management consultancy specializing in providing product pricing services and he serves on the Dean's Advisory Committee for the Dean of the College of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. . --Michael Grady: Grady was the CEO and co-founder of Argon argon (är`gŏn) [Gr.,=inert], gaseous chemical element; symbol Ar; at. no. 18; at. wt. 39.948; m.p. −189.2°C;; b.p. −185.7°C;; density 1.784 grams per liter at STP; valence 0. Networks, a developer of high performance core routers for the backbone of the Internet, which was acquired in March 1999 by a unit of Siemens. Prior to founding Argon, Grady was the senior vice president of engineering at Bay Networks. Grady previously held a variety of positions at Stratus Computer, a leading manufacturer of fault-tolerant computer systems. Grady was also involved in the Multics Project at MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970's. --Robert Cramer: Cramer was president and CEO of FirstSense Software. Inc., a leader in the application QoS market, which was acquired by Concord Communications, Inc. Prior to FirstSense, Cramer was general manager of the process manufacturing The manufacturing industry that uses process control systems. See process control. business at Marcam Corporation, a $200 million enterprise application software company. Before Marcam, Cramer was president and CEO of Software Emancipation Technology. Cramer has also held senior marketing and sales management Sales Management Role and Goal Importance of sales management is critical for any commercial organization. Expanding business in not possible without increasing sales volumes, and effective sales management goal is to organize sales team work in such a manner that ensures a positions at Oracle, CenterLine cen·ter·line n. 1. A line that bisects something into equal parts. 2. A painted line running along the center of a road or highway that divides it into two sections for traffic moving in opposite directions, or, in the case of (Compuware), Ingres (CA) and AT&T Bell Labs (Lucent). Cramer currently sits on the board of directors of Ilogix Inc. NowSpeed Services NowSpeed services are ideally suited for organizations in a variety of industries with a significant number of mobile professionals, road warriors
The Road Warriors were a professional wrestling tag team famously comprised of Michael "Hawk" Hegstrand and Joseph "Animal" Laurinaitis, though other members and telecommuters that spend a large amount of time out of their offices. International Data Corporation reports that there will be 47 million mobile workers in the US by 2003. Furthermore, Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. predicts there will be more than 100 million U.S. wireless data users by 2003. NowSpeed's first offering is a mobile e-mail service See Internet e-mail service. that gives users access to fully featured mobile e-mail through a wide range of devices including PDAs, mobile phone (listen and view), laptops and pagers. Additional NowSpeed services will include of a range of content and application gateways for accessing Internet, Intranet and corporate applications on mobile devices. Through its ASP business model, NowSpeed offers a practical, simple and cost-effective method for rolling out mobile email services throughout an organization and its mobile workforce. By delivering this capability as a subscription-based service, NowSpeed enables organizations to leverage today's leading wireless Internet technologies while reducing capital costs for equipment, maintenance and internal support. About NowSpeed NowSpeed (www.nowspeed.net) is an application service provider (ASP) delivering wireless Internet services that extend important user-critical tools and applications from the corporate desktop to PDAs, mobile phones and pagers. It quickly, easily and cost-effectively gives mobile professionals, road warriors and telecommuters better access and control over their corporate e-mail, Intranet and Internet content and business applications at any time, from any location. NowSpeed services include a comprehensive suite of content gateways and consulting services designed for mobile professionals in a variety of industries including financial services, technology, pharmaceutical, professional services, and management consulting. NowSpeed and "at the speed of now" are trademarks of NowSpeed, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective companies. |
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