CCAA - Del Favero Named to Cala Corporation's Undersea Resort Project Advisory Board Business Editors OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2000--Joseph Cala, Chairman and CEO of Cala Corporation (OTCBB:CCAA), today announced that John P. Del Favero will serve as the President of the Advisory Board for Cala Corporation's Undersea Resort Project. In this capacity, Mr. Del Favero will take the lead role in recruiting and convening world-class experts from various disciplines for service on the Advisory Board. Mr. Del Favero is currently the Vice President of Marketing for ProfessorQ, Inc., the technology leader in providing natural language search engine solutions for Web enterprises. Previously, Mr. Del Favero was the Executive Director of the Scottish Technology and Research Center, and Internet business incubator he developed and launched in Silicon Valley on behalf of the Government of Scotland. Mr. Del Favero has more than 10 years of software industry marketing, sales and product management experience in the areas of multimedia, networking, and natural language processing. He launched the digital multimedia library line of business for Picture Network International (PNI), which led to Eastman Kodak's acquisition of PNI in 1997. He also served as Worldwide Product Marketing Manager for IBM Corporation's COMDEX award-winning RISC System/6000 Video Server software and led IBM's business planning efforts in the area of interactive television set top box operating systems. Prior to his software career, Mr. Del Favero served as Vice President of Hartkemeier and Associates, a boutique venture capital firm in Malibu, where he led an international effort to raise venture capital during the Space Shuttle Challenger crisis for private space transportation systems that were the prelude to NASA's current $1 billion Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) program. About Cala Corporation Cala Corporation is a developing international hospitality company with a corporate emphasis on the ownership, operation and management of hotels, hotel-based restaurants, and real estate development. Cala Corporation is currently developing the Undersea Resort and Hotel project with proposed locations throughout the world. The information in this news release includes certain forward-looking statements as defined in the "Safe Harbor" provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based upon assumptions that are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that the expectations of any of its forward-looking statements will prove to be correct. This press release was prepared on behalf of the Board of Directors, which accepts full responsibility for its contents. For further information on Cala Corporation, please contact 405/235-4960 or e-mail info@calacorporation.com. --30--amm/dx* CONTACT: Cala Corporation, Oklahoma City Joseph Cala, 405/235-4960 info@calacorporation.com |