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Thursday November 4, 9:33 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
GETGO Mail.com Nominates 4 New Directors and Retains Brenmark Inc. to Lead U.S. Strategic Development and Marketing
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 1999--GETGO Mail.com (NASDAQ:GTGO - news) announced that the following individuals have agreed to join the company's Board of Directors subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions:
Paul G. Lewis is President and CEO of MC2 Corporation, a provider of Wide-Area-Network solutions to FORTUNE 1000 clients, including AT&T, Chubb, Johnson & Johnson, Merrill-Lynch, Merck, Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touche, and Philip Morris. Mr. Lewis was named the Small Business Administration's Young Entrepreneur of the Year and has authored numerous articles published in various periodicals, including Forbes Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Nation's Business, LAN Magazine, Sales & Marketing Management, Software Solutions, and Technology Today. Mr. Lewis serves on the Novell Platinum Council Advisory Board and the Cisco Systems Steering Council. He is also a regular lecturer at universities, including the Wharton School of Business, and companies, including IBM, on topics that include ``The Internet and its Future Role in America.' Mr. Lewis received a BS in Computer Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Edwin J. ``Ted' Selker, Ph.D., is currently a professor at MIT Medial Laboratory. Dr. Selker built the User Systems Ergonomics Research Laboratory at IBM Almaden Research Center, and for his achievements at IBM, he enjoyed the highest technical position in the company -- IBM Fellow. Dr. Selker has served as a consulting professor at Stanford University, taught at Hampshire and Brown Universities and worked at Xerox PARC and Atari Research Labs. Dr. Selker is known for the design of the ``TrackPoint III' in-keyboard pointing device, for creating the ``COACH' adaptive agent that improves user performance (Warp Guides in OS/2), and for the design of the 755CV notebook computer that doubles as an LCD projector. Dr. Selker's work takes the form of several prototype concept products a year supported by cognitive science research. Dr. Selker obtained his BS degree from Brown University, his MS degree from the University of Massachusetts, and his Ph.D. degree from City University of New York in Computer Science.
Steven Sun-Hai Chiao, Ph.D., is a professor of electrical engineering and serves as a director of High Frequency Electronic Labs and Integrated Circuits Labs at San Jose State University. Dr. Chiao also serves as a Visiting Professor of the Electronic Research Institute of National Chen-Kung University and Adjunct Professor of EECS & Microelectronics Lab, School of Engineering, Santa Clara University. He is a vice-president of Mosel/Vitelic Semiconductor, CEO/President of Elite Semiconductor, a director of the Non-volatile Memory Department of Gould/AMI, a member of the technical staff of the R&D division of Optoelectronics of Hewlett-Packard and a senior research scientist of Central Research Lab of Varian Associates. Dr. Chiao has published and presented over 85 technical articles and holds 5 U.S. patents in semiconductor and microelectronics related technologies. Dr. Chiao's expertise ranges from VLSI chip design, flat panel display technology, multi-chip module technology, and optoelectronic component and subsystems to fiber optical communications. Dr. Chiao received his BS degree from National Cheng-Kung University, his MS degree from the University of Southern California and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
John A. Chmiel is president of Microdex, Inc., an integrated circuit design services consulting firm and manufacturer's sales representative. Mr. Chmiel has 25 years experience in high-volume consumer and industrial electronics markets for semiconductor components, ASIC design services, wafer foundry and OEM contract manufacturing. Mr. Chmiel was employed for 12 years by National Semiconductor Corporation (NSC), holding senior positions in manufacturing operations management with profit and loss responsibility, marketing operations, and field applications engineering. His experience includes a six-year overseas assignment in Southeast Asia in international country-market business development, brand recognition, and sales operations for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Singapore. Mr. Chmiel holds a B.E.E. from Cornell University.
In addition to the new board nominees, GETGO Mail.com has retained Brenmark Inc., a respected West Coast marketing solutions company, to develop and implement the full marketing strategy as well as oversee the design of its first credit card product. Brenmark Inc., who developed the GETGO Mail.com name, focuses exclusively on companies that require branding, long-term strategic partnerships, joint ventures, licensing, marketing and media. Brenmark is currently planning the introduction of the GETGO Mail line of products in May of 2000, beginning with a portable credit card size device capable of receiving downloaded Internet voice mail, e-mail and fax data. The GetGo Mail(TM) card will initially be offered to the leading ISPs, Portals, Baby Bells and Internet unified messaging services who want to offer this important service to their subscribers. Prior to establishing Brenmark Inc., Mr. Brenner has spent the last twenty years developing and managing businesses that have included consumer electronics and information services.
GETGO Mail.com intends to manufacture a new line of credit card size Unified Messaging products capable of receiving and sending Internet remote voice mail, e-mail and fax mail downloads through a cellular phone or landline telephone. The GETGO Mail(TM) card plugs into a standard cell phone or landline phone for automatic downloading. The proprietary ``Visual Access Platform' allows voice data to be stored within an e-mail box and to be formatted with the original caller's identity so that it appears on a GETGO Mail(TM) card's screen and is directly accessible as if it were standard e-mail. Although standard e-mail and fax mail have header formats that identify the original sender, standard voice mail does not. Now, through GETGO Mail.com's new patented technology, a format for establishing original sender headers for voice mail stored in e-mail boxes is available, thus allowing for access to voice mail as conveniently as if it were e-mail. GETGO Mail.com has exclusive license to make and sell products that provide a visual listing of voice mail and a link to the corresponding voice mail through the Internet. For additional information on the Company's new strategic focus, please log on to www.getgomail.com. For more information, contact Mark Brenner, 818/865-2000 or mbrenmark@aol.com. |
