SAMSys Technologies appoints Ron Pinkus as Vice President of Marketing
Company: SAMSys Technologies Inc.
Stock Symbol: SMY
Listing: Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)
Outstanding Shares: 47.8 Million
Web Site: www.samsys.com
TORONTO, June 28 /CNW/ - SAMSys Technologies Inc. (TSX:SMY), an
international provider of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) hardware
solutions announced today the appointment of Mr. Ron Pinkus as the Company's
Vice President of Marketing.
With over 25 years of experience serving the hi-tech industry including
the last five in the RFID market space, Mr. Pinkus is known for his expertise
in new product innovations. Prior to joining SAMSys, he held a number of
senior marketing and product management positions at leading companies such as
ExxonMobil Speedpass, Transcore, Texas Instruments, and others. His career
achievements also include founding a prominent computer networking company.
Ron joined SAMSys in November 2004 as director of product management to
build and support its vision of becoming a worldwide leader in the RFID
market. As Vice President of Marketing, Mr. Pinkus is responsible for all of
SAMSys' marketing and product management programs, including new product
launches and its go-to-market strategy and will be championing the process of
bringing SAMSys' RFID reader systems to market.
"We are delighted that Ron's progress and participation within senior
Management has been so dramatic over the past several months; and that he has
assumed responsibility for so much of our strategic positioning," said Cliff
Horwitz, SAMSys chairman & CEO. "As a company we continue to focus on many
potential differentiators in order to assume and maintain a leadership role,
and I am entirely comfortable that Ron understands the dynamics of the RFID
Industry better than most."
"I am excited to be participating in the RFID revolution with SAMSys, as
we have built a world class product development organization poised to become
one of the leaders in the RFID market space," said Mr. Pinkus. "We are rapidly
becoming the defacto-standard for embedded RFID UHF reader modules and hope to
replicate that business model for the fixed reader space as the market reaches
its tipping point". |
