SAN JOSE, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- RFID Systems Corporation
(BB: RFIDD) announced today that the Company has established a
Strategic Advisory Board (SAB) of highly experienced business and technology
professionals to help guide the company's business and market development.
In making the announcement, Patrick O'Hearn, CEO, RFID Systems Corporation
said, "Our Strategic Advisory Board has a mandate to challenge and review the
strategy and tactics of the company on an ongoing basis. In addition, the
members will provide high level introductions within the business community,
and promote the message of the company with customers, investors and industry
influencers."
The Company also announcement the appointment of Mr. Ed de Paschalis as
Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board. O'Hearn noted "I have known Ed for
a number of years and am looking forward to working with him again. He is a
veteran of the high technology industry with an outstanding track record,
sound business judgment and a network of contacts that will provide
significant advantages to the Company." The Company expects to announce
additional appointments to the SAB in the near future.
Ed de Paschalis is currently consulting with several high technology firms
in California. Ed is an expert in the field of Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) and in the last several years had worked with Cirrus Logic, Cypress
Semiconductor, EXAR, National Semiconductor and Lattice Semiconductor in the
analysis, planning and installation of Management Information software.
Immediately prior to his present consulting work, he was the Senior
Information Officer (CIO) of Philips Semiconductor for 10 years. Earlier in
his career he was the senior Information Technology officer at several major
national and international firms such as the Singer Company, Levi Straus and
Dayton-Hudson Corporation. He started his career at RCA.
RFID Systems Corporation develops and markets a unique family of computer
and network security products which utilize its proven radio frequency
identification technology to provide extremely high levels of security for
corporate and individual computer users, as well as corporate intranets and
the public internet.
RFID Systems' products are designed to run on Microsoft(R) Windows(R)-
based personal computer systems used in corporate installations, where the
need for security already exists, and private based systems where the need for
security is increasing because of the growth of the Internet. Currently there
are 84 million PC's in the professional market and this is expected to
increase to 176 million by 2002.
SOURCE RFID Systems Corporation
-0- 05/14/98
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