Wednesday July 19, 9:43 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
GETGO Mail.com Inc. Names Business Leader as Chairman, President and CEO
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 2000--GETGO Mail.com Inc. (the ``Company '') (Nasdaq:GTGO - news), today announced the appointment of Dr. Derrin R. Smith as Chairman of the Board.
Dr. Smith will also serve as President and Chief Executive Officer with all appointments effective immediately. He replaces Ed Ting, the founder, who tendered his resignation in favor of Dr. Smith's appointment.
``This appointment heralds an exciting new era for the parent GETGO enterprise as the company continues to aggressively pursue its new business vision and earnings based culture. Expanding into broadband, telecommunications and private equity ventures is best accomplished by someone of Dr. Smith's expertise,'' said Mr. Ting at the conclusion of the Board meeting. New Fiduciary and Advisory Boards are currently being structured.
Upon his appointment, Dr. Smith, noted for his innovative business strategies, announced, ``We are immediately relocating the GETGO World headquarters to Colorado, the broadband convergence corridor, and will maintain the advanced technology facility in New Jersey for the unified messaging enterprise.'' GETGO USA CEO, Paul Lewis, completed the technology transfer from Hong Kong to New Jersey this week.
Derrin R. Smith, Ph.D. is an investment banking principle and chief economist, who brings more than 20 years of experience from the forefront of telecommunications and information systems technology. His is active in software and telecommunications mergers, acquisitions and business development, with formal credentials in software and telecommunications systems engineering, as well as finance and economics.
A widely sought after speaker, he has appeared on NPR's Cyber Media Show, been quoted in the Industry Standard and described as an ``Executive Super Hero'' by PC Week in July 1997. In 1999, he was a featured keynote speaker with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at the Business Excellence Conference. He is a member of the Computer Information Systems Advisory Board, the Colorado Governor's first telecommunications advisory board, Chairman of the DUET Conference, a senior executive summit on the convergence revolution in technology, and has served as an adjunct professor of graduate computer science at the University of Denver. In February 2000 he was nominated for the Smithsonian Award: Innovation and Leadership in Science & Technology.
For more information, please go to getgomail.com or contact: Chris G. Mendrop, 818/475-1509. |
