Gerry Gabel Appointed Director of Business Development of ALYA
ALYA Opens Sales Office in Austin, Texas
PALO ALTO, Calif.--May 5, 1998--ALYA International, Inc. (''ALYA'' or
the ''Company'')(OTC BB:ALYA) announced today that Gerry Gabel,
formerly with the Echelon Corporation, has joined ALYA as Director of
Business Development (USA).
Gabel's mission is to use his years of very successful sales and
management experience and his multiple contacts in the building
automation industry to build a network of resellers across the United
States.
Gabel brings to ALYA 22 years of experience in sales and management in
the high tech industry. He has been with Echelon since 1991. Gabel's
previous sales and management positions were with the Exabyte
Corporation [Nasdaq:EXBT], Pixar and Data General where he
accomplished the following:
Echelon: Consistent revenue increases since 1991. Penetrated 15 "Fortune 500" companies as Strategic Accounts Manager;
Exabyte Corp: Responsible for $23 million in revenue as National Distribution Sales Manager;
Pixar: Increased profitability by 17%. And managed relationships with Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics,
Digital Equipment Corporation [NYSE:DEC] and IBM.
Data General: Sold over $25 million in Data General equipment. "Salesman of the Year" in 1984.
With the appointment of Gable, ALYA has established an office in
Texas at:
1150 Lakeway Drive Telephone: 512/261-2077
Austin Texas 78734 Fax: 512/261-2111
USA
ALYA International, Inc. (OTC BB:ALYA) is a leader in software design
using Microsoft's(R) Windows NT(R), Echelon's(R) LonWorks(R) technology and Local/Wide area networks communication protocols.
ALYA's first product, O.P.E.N.cortex(tm) is a development
platform based on these de facto standards directed to companies
implementing applications for end users such as building management
systems and process control applications.
ALYA has utilized this platform in the design of its second product
O.P.E.N.centrix(tm), an application for Security Systems and Building
Access. LonWorks technology is a de facto standard in the building
automation and process control industries providing a new standard for
open architecture and interoperable control systems. The LonMark(R)
Association, supported by Motorola(R), Honeywell Inc.(R), Johnson
Controls, Inc.(R), Olivetti(R), BTE(R) and Toshiba Corporation(R)
endorses LonWorks. ALYA is one of the first companies to develop
''plug and play'' open architecture (ALYA's O.P.E.N.(tm) ''Open
Platform for Essential Networks'') hardware and software for the
security and control industries.
Contact:
ALYA International, Inc.
888/595-6444
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