SEEC Expands E-Business Management Team.PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 1999-- SEEC SEEC Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos (Spanish Society for Classical Studies) SEEC Stop Experimentation on & Exploitation of Chimpanzees SEEC Supported Employment Enterprise Corporation SEEC Synthesis Engineering Education Coalition , Inc. (Nasdaq:SEEC) today announced two additions to its executive management team to support its e-business solutions strategy. Alan Parnass, founder and chief executive of Mozart Systems Corp., has been named Vice President of Web Solutions, and Shankar Krish, previously SEEC's Director of Product Development, has been appointed Vice President of R&D. Parnass joins SEEC as part of the company's acquisition of Mozart Systems, announced last month. He is based at the companies' Burlingame, California Burlingame is a city in San Mateo County, California, which is the second wealthiest county in the state, as well as the fourteenth richest in the country. It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula and has a significant shoreline on San Francisco Bay. offices, just outside of San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . "We are very pleased to add Alan Parnass to our management team," said Ravi Koka, 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 SEEC. "Alan brings to SEEC wide experience in developing Web-enabled customer-service applications for insurance companies, banks and other large, global corporations. His knowledge of the Web-to-legacy market and his technical, sales and marketing talents will help SEEC capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. the growing e-business market opportunity." Koka continued: "Shankar Krish has been a driving force at SEEC since it was founded in 1988. He has played a key role in developing and extending our products and technology, including the very successful launch of SEEC Re-engineering Workbench(TM) earlier this year. In this new position, Shankar will oversee our Java component strategy and will coordinate integration with the Mozart products, two cornerstones of our long-term growth plan. There is no better person to lead these efforts." Alan Parnass founded Mozart Systems Corporation in 1985, and led its evolution to a leading provider of Web-enablement products. Prior to founding Mozart, Parnass spent five years with Oracle Corporation, most recently as Vice President of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Sales. Between 1974-1980, Parnass held several positions with 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) Corporation, with an emphasis on improving mainframe application development for large banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions. Prior to that, he worked at Travelers Insurance and at Computer Sciences Corporation. Parnass earned his undergraduate degree “First degree” redirects here. For the BBC television series, see First Degree. An undergraduate degree (sometimes called a first degree or simply a degree in physics from Queen's College at the City University of New York The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym: IPA pronunciation: [kjuni]), is the public university system of New York City. . He also holds a master's degree in physics from Rutgers University. Prior to joining SEEC, Shankar Krish was a System Architect with ERA Software Systems in Hyderabad, India. Earlier in his career, he held senior software development positions with PERQ PERQ Pascal Evaluation Real Quick Systems Corp., Data General Corp. and Patni Computer Systems Patni Computer Systems Ltd., is a provider of Information Technology services and business solutions. The company employs over 14,000 people, and has 23 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific,as well as offshore development centers in 8 cities in India. . He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Karnatak University, in Dharwar, India. About SEEC, Inc. SEEC provides enterprise solutions that help organizations transform and integrate mission critical mainframe systems with e-commerce and new software systems to gain a competitive edge. SEEC's solutions include acclaimed, flexible methodologies, best-of-breed tools and expert consulting services that have saved significant time and cost for over 150 Fortune 1000 companies. SEEC's technology frees data for easy Internet access to allow clients to keep pace with today's e-business world. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, SEEC was recognized in 1998 as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the region, with an increasing customer base of large, global organizations. SEEC has direct sales and support offices in North America, Europe and Asia plus sales and services alliances with leading global IT service providers. Visit SEEC's Web site at www.seec.com. Copyright 1999, SEEC, Inc. SEEC product names are trademarks of SEEC, Inc. All other products and company names are trademarks of their respective companies. The statements made in this press release that are not historical facts contain forward-looking information that involves risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ. Such risks include, but are not necessarily limited to, those detailed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. |
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