Savi Taps New Executives to Expand International Presence and Extend Capability of Its Real-time Supply Chain Systems.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2001 New Vice Presidents Named to Build Business in Europe and Advance Savi's Real-Time Monitoring and Management Capability Savi Technology Savi Technology is a US-based company that provides real-time RFID solutions for managing and securing global supply chain assets. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Savi has offices in London, Singapore, Washington, D.C. and Melbourne, Australia. , Inc., the leading provider of real-time logistics software and systems, today announced two key executive appointments that will help the company advance its innovative solutions both geographically and technologically. Mark McGlade, a veteran supply chain services executive most recently with Marconi InfoChain, was named to the new position of Vice President -- European Sales. Roderick Thorne, a leader in the development of radio frequency, microwave and cellular technology products with nearly three decades of experience, was appointed as Vice President -- Wireless Products. Vic Verma, president and chief executive officer of Savi Technology, announced the appointments today. "Mark and Rod bring exceptional skills, knowledge and experience in their fields to these important new positions at Savi," said Verma. "Their expertise and leadership will help extend the reach of our sales team and accelerate the development of new products. Mark's international supply chain expertise at Marconi will help us build commercial accounts in Europe. Rod's technical and strategic insights will help drive a new generation of products that help our customers gain more real-time control Real-time control is a popular term for a certain class of digital controllers. For effective digital control, it is critical that sample time be constant. Real-time control achieves nearly constant sample time. See also
McGlade will focus on building Savi's commercial sales and business development programs for both global accounts and European centered customers, leveraging his direct experience in establishing Marconi InfoChain in the commercial supply chain solutions market. Thorne will play a key role in managing the development of breakthrough tracking products, which will widen and sharpen the visibility of goods, assets, inventory and transportation via the Savi SmartChain(tm) platform and its Web-enabled software applications. Biography: Mark McGlade Mark McGlade has 17 years of product development, marketing and sales experience. McGlade worked at Marconi North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. (and its predecessor company, General Electric Company plc) in the 1980s and early 1990s, and rejoined the firm in 1995. In 1997, he was instrumental in conceiving and implementing the technology and business model for the Electronic Logistic Management System (ELMS) project, which became Marconi InfoChain last year. McGlade also held the position of General Manager for Fairey Hydraulics Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of a U.K. headquartered firm. He holds a B.Sc. (with honors) from the University of Liverpool The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool, England. History The University was established in 1881 as University College Liverpool, admitting its first students in 1882. , England, and, as a Commissioned Officer in the Royal Navy, he completed postgraduate studies in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, communications, and service related operations. Biography: Rod Thorne Rod (Roderick) Thorne has nearly 30 years of experience in the development and engineering of telecommunications, RF wireless, computing and software products. Prior to joining Savi, Thorne was at InterWave Communications, where he led the design and development of the company's GSM Wireless Micro-Base Stations, creating a radio frequency (RF) architecture used in a family of products spanning three transmission bands. Thorne has also held engineering and management positions of increasing responsibility with Hewlett-Packard, 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. Technologies, Network Equipment Technologies, TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc Microwave and Watkins-Johnson. He has a BSEE BSEE abbr. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (with high honors) from Yale University, and a MSEE MSEE Master of Science in Electrical Engineering MSEE Mean Square Estimation Error MSEE Major Source Enforcement Effort MSEE Materials Science and Electrical Engineering (Purdue University building) and PhDEE from the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal . About Savi Technology Savi Technology provides a software platform and applications to enable multi-national shippers, logistics services providers, conveyance owners, and infrastructure owners to monitor, manage, and optimize the progress of goods through all segments of a global supply chain. Founded in 1989, Savi Technology pioneered the use of wireless automatic identification technologies for real-time logistics information, and the company now serves a broad customer base, including the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. and Singapore Airlines, as well as major automotive, electronics and grocery and retail companies. In April 2001, the company acquired AceFusion Pte. Ltd. and created Savi Technology Asia to extend its presence in Asia Pacific. The company is privately held, with headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., and offices in Alexandria, Va.; San Francisco; Heidelberg, Germany; Singapore; Taiwan; Thailand; and Malaysia. Investors in Savi Technology include Accel Partners; Dorset Capital; k1 Ventures Limited; Mohr, Davidow Ventures; the Oracle Venture Fund; TIBCO Software; the Singapore Infocomm Development Authority (IDA Ida (ē`dä), city (1990 pop. 91,859), Nagano prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Tenryu River. It is an agricultural market and railway junction. ); Temasek Holdings; United Parcel Service United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages[1] a day to 6.1 million customers in over 200 countries and territories around the world. , through its UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund; Vector Capital; and Venture TDF (language) TDF - An intermediate language, a close relative of ANDF. A TDF program is an ASCII stream describing an abstract syntax tree. TDF became part of TenDRA in abut 2001. . For additional information, visit www.savi.com. NOTE: Digital photographs of McGlade and Thorne are available on request. Note to Editors: Savi, the Savi logo and SmartChain are trademarks of Savi Technology, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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