VideoTele.com Appoints Former U.S. Air Force General to Board of Directors.Business Editors BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 2000 VideoTele.com, Inc. (VT.c), a Tektronix company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TEK) and leading provider of MPEG-2 digital encoding, demultiplexing and grooming solutions, today announced the appointment of General Merrill A. McPeak General Merrill Anthony "Tony" McPeak (born January 9, 1936) is a former Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. He retired from the service on November 1, 1994. Early life McPeak was born in Santa Rosa, California. to its Board of Directors. A former chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, McPeak was responsible for the organization, training and equipage eq·ui·page n. 1. Equipment or furnishings. 2. a. A horse-drawn carriage with attendants. b. The carriage itself. 3. Archaic A retinue, as of a noble or royal personage. of over 850,000 people serving at approximately 1,300 locations in the United States and overseas. With strong enterprise management skills, McPeak brings a wealth of leadership and visionary expertise from various positions on other director boards, with emphasis on the electronics industry. These boards include electronic companies such as Tektronix Inc., a technology company focused on providing test, measurement and monitoring solutions; CenterSpan Communications (Nasdaq:CSCC CSCC Calgary Sports Car Club (Alberta, Canada) CSCC Clemson Sports Car Club CSCC Columbus State Community College (Ohio) CSCC Classic Sports Car Club (UK) ), a software developer for client-to-client instant voice and text messaging over the Internet; and Trans World Airlines Trans World Airlines, commonly known as TWA, was a major American airline company that was acquired by American Airlines in April 2001. For many years it was headquartered at the Kansas City Downtown Airport, as well as midtown Manhattan in New York City. , Inc. (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :TWA). McPeak also serves as a board member at several other pre-IPO start-up companies and contributes finely honed international business skills, resulting from his current position as Chairman of the Board of ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. International. "During both his military and civilian careers, General McPeak has excelled at positions which require leadership, organization, and a strong grasp of management," said Doug Shafer, 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 VideoTele.com. "His knowledge and expertise will be an asset to VideoTele.com's commitment to expand its provisioning of next-generation solutions for service providers." In addition to Gen. McPeak, members of the VideoTele.com board are: Jerome J. Meyer, Chairman of the Board, Tektronix, Inc., Douglas C. Shafer, President and Chief Executive Officer, VideoTele.com, Inc. and Daniel R. Brophy, Director and Senior Advisor, VideoTele.com, Inc. VideoTele.com VideoTele.com is a leading provider of MPEG-2 digital encoding, demultiplexing and grooming solutions. With over 20 years of experience, VideoTele.com enables service providers to deliver entertainment video within the Full Service Network environment, as a key building block of the broadband Internet. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, VideoTele.com is a subsidiary of Tektronix, Inc. Additional information on the company can be found by accessing the VideoTele.com Corporate website at: http://www.videotele.com. Note to Editors: VideoTele.com is a trademark of VideoTele.com, Inc. Tektronix is a registered trademark of Tektronix, Inc. All other trade names referenced are the service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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