Compression & Encryption Technologies Inc. Appoints New President
EDMONTON, ALBERTA--The Board of Compression and Encryption Technologies Inc. (CYH), wishes to announce that Mr. Don Makowichuk has been appointed to serve as President of Compression and Encryption Technology Inc. Mr. Makowichuk has served on the CYH board since 1998. As a health care professional, Mr. Makowichuk has gained extensive entrepreneurial experience through the operation of a successful pharmaceutical enterprise. His knowledge and experience in business and management consulting will be applied to the corporate development of CYH to facilitate the growth of the company into a major player in the global bandwidth optimization and delivery industry.
Mr. Don Logan who has been involved with the company since 1994 as an officer and director will assume the role of Chairman of the Board. Mr. Makowichuk will also assume the role president of Compression Communications Corporation (CCC) a wholly owned subsidiary of Compression and Encryption Technologies Inc.
The Board of Directors has also appointed Mr. Don Demich to the board. Mr. Demich has over 20 years of experience in business management in both public and private companies. Mr. Demich provides a wealth of experience in consulting, and contract negotiations, as well as a solid background in US and international business protocols.
Mr. Randy Pointkoski, who has 16 years experience in business and technology development has been appointed as Vice-President of Business Development with the company. Mr. Pointkoski has been involved with the company in various capacities since 1992 and will be focused on the development of business relationships based on current and emerging technologies in bandwidth optimization, delivery and security.
The Board of Directors has approved the issuance of 325,000 directors and employees stock options based on at $.44 per share based on the close of trading September 19, 2000.
The Board of Directors of Compression and Encryption Technology Inc. is comprised of Mr. Don Logan, Mr. Don Makowichuk, Mr. Greg Burghardt, and Mr. Don Demich.
The family of CYH data link optimization products and technologies are designed to expand the usable bandwidth of Wide Area Network (WAN) services. The current products deliver up to four times the throughput normally available on existing data links. Data communications carriers provide these WAN services on a monthly lease basis. The value of the extra bandwidth obtained from the use of the hardware is dependent upon the costs of the bandwidth. Optimization technologies under development with the company are targeted to various access technologies such as xDSL, wireless and cable technologies. With demand for bandwidth globally growing faster than the infrastructure, an opportunity is created for effective bandwidth optimization technologies.
CYH trades on the Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX) under the symbol CYH. Corporate and product information about CYH is available on the World Wide Web at compression.okko.com |