XTRA On-Line Announces New CEO.Business Editors & Travel/High Tech Writers DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2001 XTRA XTRA Extra XTRA X-band Thin Radar Aperture (US DoD) XTRA Xml Transaction Architecture On-Line Corporation ("XOL XOL Ontology Exchange Language XOL Excess of Loss (insurance) XOL Diskless X Office Linux XOL Extension of Life XOL Xinhuaonline XOL XML Based Ontology Language XOL Object Language Editor (file extension) ") reported today that Mark McCulloch has been appointed its new chief executive officer. William (Bill) S. Diffenderffer resigned as 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 XOL, effective July 4, 2001, to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Diffenderffer remains a member of the board of directors of XOL. Mr. McCulloch has 23 years of experience in travel technology. He joined XOL as vice president of product development in November 1997 and was named senior vice president and chief technical officer in November 1999. Prior to joining the company, Mr. McCulloch served as director of architecture at Galileo, a Global Distribution System (GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards ) Company, where he was responsible for Galileo's advanced product strategy, architecture and development. In this position, he was directly responsible for delivering a multi-tier infrastructure and the end-consumer applications enabling Galileo to distribute its reservation services over the Internet. Prior to joining Galileo, Mr. McCulloch served in a variety of research and development positions at United Airlines and Covia. XOL develops and distributes the travel industry's first intelligent travel-planning engine, MyTrip(R). MyTrip makes educated, accurate and relevant pre-trip planning and real-timedestination and transportation decisions with one mouse or wireless click. XOL's MyTrip planning engine (patent pending) generates highly personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. travel itineraries, directly from personal information management systems ("PIM (1) (Protocol Independent Multicast) A multicast routing protocol endorsed by the IETF. Used in conjunction with an existing unicast routing protocol, it comes in two flavors: Dense Mode (PIM-DM) is used when recipients in the target group are in a concentrated "), such as Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook (R). Using geo-coding and geo-location, MyTrip determines a traveler's optimal travel plan including flights, lodging, ground transportation and other travel needs. The engine also enables wireless applications to push and pull pertinent travel information (e.g., flight updates, traffic reports, and entertainment opportunities) directly to the user. For more information, go to www.mytrip.com or www.xol.com. |
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