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Wednesday August 16, 8:34 am Eastern Time
Press Release
Mort Topfer, Director, Counselor to the CEO and Former Vice Chairman of Dell, Joins PartMiner's Board of Directors
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 16, 2000--PartMiner®, Inc., a provider of business-to-business procurement services to the global electronic components industry, today announced the appointment of Dell's Mort Topfer to its board of directors.
Topfer, former vice chairman of Dell and a 40-year veteran of the electronics industry, currently serves as counselor to chief executive officer of Dell and is a member of the company's board of directors. In addition, he also serves on the board of directors of British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. and Crossroads Systems Inc. and serves on the advisory board of Singapore Technologies. Topfer was introduced to PartMiner by Adam Dell, managing general partner of Impact Venture Partners, a PartMiner investor. He will advise PartMiner's board about matters such as operations, quality and customer experience issues.
``I support PartMiner's effort to streamline the electronic components supply chain as both a board member and a customer,'' said Topfer. ``The company was one of the first traditional distributors to combine real-world expertise with e-commerce technology to simplify the procurement process.''
Prior to being elected to his current position in December 1999, Topfer served as vice chairman of Dell for five years. In this position, he shared the Office of the Chief Executive Officer with Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, and Kevin Rollins, vice chairman.
Before joining Dell in May 1994, Topfer served as corporate executive vice president of Motorola, Inc. and president of Motorola's Land Mobile Products Sector, where he managed a $3 billion mobile, portable and data systems function. Additionally, Topfer helped build and ultimately spun-off Motorola's $2 billion paging business.
During his 23-year career with Motorola, Topfer was part of the team that led the company's quality effort, resulting in receipt of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1988. Prior to joining Motorola, Topfer spent 11 years with RCA Laboratories in various research and development, and management positions. He began his professional career as a research engineer with Kollsman Instruments Corporation in New York.
``We are delighted to be associated with someone of Mort's caliber, and believe his renowned expertise in the electronics industry is an enormous plus for PartMiner. Notably, Mort is the first Dell executive to join the board of a B2B marketplace,'' said Dan Nissanoff, president and CEO of PartMiner. ``His vote of confidence in our business and our vision means a lot to us.''
About PartMiner
PartMiner, Inc.'s online marketplace, the Electronic Commerce Free Trade Zone(TM), located at www.freetradezone.com, allows buyers and sellers to communicate and interact more effectively within the over $220 billion electronic components industry. Currently, thousands of users, including those at companies like Hewlett-Packard, Motorola and Toshiba, have registered to research and source electronic components online with PartMiner's existing procurement software. PartMiner is headquartered in New York City at 432 Park Avenue South, 12 Floor, NY, NY 10016, with offices in Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East. Additional information about PartMiner is available at www.partminer.com.
PartMiner is a registered trademark of PartMiner, Inc. Electronic Commerce Free Trade Zone, and Free Trade Zone are trademarks of PartMiner, Inc. There is a patent pending on the Electronic Commerce Free Trade Zone. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in news releases are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements.
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