Ron Weissman, NeXT Computer's former vice president, joins Verity marketing.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 1997--Verity, 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 :VRTY), a leading provider of search and retrieval applications for the enterprise and the Internet, today announced that Ron Weissman has joined the company as vice president of corporate marketing. With more than 20 years of experience in high-tech marketing and corporate information technology, Weissman will be responsible for managing all marketing and business development activity. "Ron Weissman brings to Verity a unique blend of business, technology and marketing experience," said Philippe Courtot Philippe Courtot was born on August 26, 1944. He spent his early days in France. He holds a Master's Degree in Physics from the University of Paris. Philippe Courtot moved to the United States of America in 1981 and has been in the Silicon Valley since 1987. , chairman 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 Verity, Inc. "In his years at NeXT and Filoli, Ron demonstrated his ability to think strategically and to forge key deals and partnerships--skills that will now help us build Verity into an even more important force in the marketplace." "I am excited about joining Verity," said Weissman. "Thanks to the power of the Net, managing an organization's institutional memory is becoming the next business 'killer app.' Verity's SEARCH'97 solutions are well placed to play a significant role in this rapidly emerging market. I look forward to helping Verity take advantage of this opportunity through continued innovation, expanded industry partnerships and ubiquitous market presence." Prior to joining Verity, Weissman was vice president of sales and marketing for the Filoli Information Systems Company, a provider of software solutions for insurance and healthcare. Prior to Filoli, he spent more than five years at NeXT Computer, most recently as its director of corporate and European marketing, where he was responsible for increasing the sales pipeline, developing worldwide marketing strategy and serving as NeXT's principal corporate spokesperson. Before his European assignment, Weissman managed NeXT's vertical markets including financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , telecommunications and healthcare. He built NeXT's initial market as the company's first director of higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. . While at NeXT, Weissman managed NeXT's most challenging and successful marketing initiatives, including the company's transition from hardware to software, its strategic repositioning as a leader in object-oriented software, and its Object/Enterprise business alliance with Hewlett-Packard. A frequent high-tech conference speaker who has published extensively on information industry trends, Weissman has served on technical and marketing advisory panels for Apple, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft, Digital and Sun and has been an advisor and consultant to many public and private organizations. Weissman has also recently served on national task forces determining the future of electronic recordkeeping in the Federal government and on the future direction of the Internet as a research aid. He serves as an Overseer of the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. Library and on the Library's Technology Advisory Committee. Weissman is a former member of the faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in the city of College Park, in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., in the United States. , and at Brown University, where he served as Assistant Vice President for Computing. A Fulbright Scholar holding his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, Weissman has published extensively on object-oriented computing and the role of emerging information architectures for libraries, archives and corporate information centers. About Verity Verity, Inc. was founded in April 1988 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale. Verity develops and markets software tools and applications for searching, retrieving and filtering information across the Internet, enterprise and CD-ROMs. Verity's products have been licensed to corporations, government agencies, on-line service providers, Internet publishers and developers worldwide. Verity partners include Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. , AT&T, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. , Cisco, Compaq, Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance , Financial Times, Individual Inc., Informix, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Lotus Development Corp., Netscape Communications, PC DOCS, SAP, SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. , Siemens Nixdorf See Fujitsu Siemens. , Sybase, Tandem and Times Mirror Pathfinder. About Verity's SEARCH'97 Product Suite The SEARCH'97 product suite includes SEARCH'97 Information Server, SEARCH'97 CD-Web Publisher, SEARCH'97 Agent Server Toolkit, SEARCH'97 Developer's Kit, SEARCH'97 Personal for Microsoft Exchange, SEARCH'97 Information Server for Microsoft Exchange. Verity is expanding the product line to include SEARCH'97 Personal products for Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Explorer, which are shipping now. IntelliServ for SEARCH'97 is scheduled for general availability in May 1997. Verity is also expanding the product line to include a number of intelligent search components that enhance query ease and accuracy, enable the visualization of information and expand information navigation capabilities. This release contains forward looking statements relating to Verity and its SEARCH'97 products under development, including the expected features and performance. The successful development and release dates for these products are subject to potential delay and other risks inherent in software development. Also, there is no assurance that the products will achieve market acceptance, due to the rapidly changing market for the Company's products, competition and other factors. These and other risks relating to Verity's business and product development efforts are as set forth in the Company's Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and Form 10-Qs as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information contact Verity at info@verity.com or at the World Wide Web site http://www.verity.com/ or by calling 408/541-1500. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Verity and SEARCH'97 are Trademarks of Verity, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. CONTACT: Verity, Inc. Marguerite Padovani, 408/542-2224 mpadovan@verity.com http://www.verity.com |
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