TECHGNOSIS INC. APPOINTS PRESIDENT OF U.S. OPERATIONS, EXPANDS U.S. MANAGEMENT TEAM.BURLINGTON Burlington, town, Canada Burlington, town (1991 pop. 129,575), SE Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. First settled (1798) by Mohawk Loyalist Joseph Brandt, Burlington's economy was built on the shipment of wheat, lumber, and quarried rock by waterway. , Mass. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- March 6, 1995 -- To support its aggressive North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. growth strategy, TechGnosis International, Inc., a provider of client/server An architecture in which the user's PC (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a solutions for heterogeneous environments Using hardware and system software from different vendors. Organizations often use computers, operating systems and databases from a variety of vendors. Contrast with homogeneous environment. , today announced the appointment of Marc Shinbrood as president and chief executive officer for U.S. operations. Shinbrood is responsible for the company's strategic direction and operations, and reports to Marc Van Rompaey, TechGnosis International's managing director, president and chief executive officer. Also today, parent company TechGnosis International, Inc. announced that it has received an equity investment of $4 million dollars from Furman Selz, a major New York-based investment banking firm. (For this announcement see separate news release.) Shinbrood has held senior management positions in the computer industry for more than 22 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time past eleven focused on client/server computing computing - computer . He was president and chief executive officer of Rochester Software Connection, Inc. (now ShowCase Corporation); vice president and general manager of the CARMS CARMS Carmarthenshire (Welsh County) CARMS Canadian Resident Matching Service CaRMS Canadian Residency Matching System CARMS Credit and Accounts Receivable Management System (Infor Global Solutions) Division of Global Software until its acquisition by Walker Interactive Systems; co-founder and national sales director of Business Software Technology, Inc. (now Legent); and a vice president of Cullinet Software (now Computer Associates). TechGnosis also announced key appointments in marketing, sales and technical support: Michael Torto, vice president for marketing (previously manager of product marketing for client/server products at Trinzic Corporation); Sean Welsh, vice president for sales (formerly director of international sales and marketing at Synernetics); Eric Egertson, director of marketing and business development; Wayne Kelley, director of customer support and Alfred Sterling, product marketing manager. "Marc Shinbrood brings TechGnosis a wealth of successful, broad-based broad-based Of or relating to an index or average that provides a good representation of the overall market. The S&P 500 and NYSE Composite are generally regarded as broad-based stock indexes, while the popular Dow Jones Industrial Average is biased experience in the software industry," said Marc Van Rompaey, president, managing director and chief executive officer of TechGnosis International, Inc. "We conducted an extensive search to find that right chief executive officer, and we believe that with Marc, TechGnosis now is positioned in the U.S. for aggressive growth." "Industry analysts see the client/server middleware market growing at a cumulative annual rate of 22 percent, from $2 billion in 1994 to $5.5 billion in 1999, worldwide," said Marc Shinbrood, president and chief executive officer of TechGnosis Inc. "It is exciting to join TechGnosis, a company poised to be the leading provider of the crucial 'missing link' for successful client/server implementation." Privately held TechGnosis Inc., based in Bulington, Mass., has been providing client/server middleware solutions since it introduced SequeLink Middleware software in 1987. SequeLink gives a wide-range of client PCs and workstations direct access to server-based data, facilitating deployment of client/server solutions that are database- and network-independent. The product has been licensed to nearly 4000 companies worldwide, connecting 160,000 clients to over 8,000 servers. -0- SequeLink, Client/Server Middleware and TechGnosis are trademarks and Middleware is a registered trademark of TechGnosis International, Inc. All other company or product names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Michael Torto Brenda Nashawaty TechGnosis Inc. Ellen Fletcher Fletcher may refer to one of the following: Ideas and companies
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