Tuesday May 18, 1:12 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
ALYA Opens San Francisco Sales
Office, Expands in Austin, Texas
Annual Meeting Completed
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 1999--ALYA International
Inc. (OTC BB:ALYA - news; ''ALYA'' or the ''Company'') announced today that the Company
will open a sales office in the San Francisco Bay area on June 1, 1999.
This office will be headed by Art Cunnington, who will have the prime responsibility for OEM
sales in North and South America. Mark Mabee has joined Gerry Gabel in ALYA's Austin,
Texas office. Mr. Cunnington and Mr. Mabee are familiar with ALYA's technology from their
previous experience at the Motorola WorldWide Smart Card Solutions Division (WSSD).
Art Cunnington has accepted the position of Vice President Sales/Operations - Americas and will
be hiring support staff for the San Francisco office. Mr. Cunnington has twenty years senior
marketing, sales and business development experience in technical systems. He was recently in a
key management position with the Motorola WSSD and formerly with Eastman Kodak.
Mark Mabee has joined ALYA as Director Business Development. Mr. Mabee is a technical
expert in the area of ''state of the art'' client server based access control systems, and has over
eleven years experience in technical sales. His more recent appointments were with Motorola
WSSD, IBM and Eastman Kodak.
''Art and Mark along with Gerry Gabel (a business manager with expertise in the LonWorks
based building controls industry) provide a strong sales management team to build ALYA's
'Americas Sales Operation,''' said Douglas Corbett, President of ALYA. ''Art and Mark's
knowledge of Motorola's quality requirements helps us supply products, sales and technical
support to Motorola's standards, with the aim of fostering an ever increasing bond with them,''
continued Corbett.
ALYA held its Annual General Meeting on May 7, 1999. The meeting, chaired by the Company's
CFO David Lewis C.A., was properly constituted and all motions were approved. The present
Directors were all reelected to the Board for another one-year term and include Milan
Carnogursky, Chairman of the Board, Douglas Corbett, President, Jaro Bucko, Director and Peter
Sobotka, Director.
The audited financial statements provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (the Company's
Auditor for three consecutive years) were accepted. Management informed the meeting that the
Form 10SB will be submitted by June 1, 1999. When this filing has been accepted, ALYA will be
termed a 'reporting' company.
ALYA International, Inc. is a leader in the development of software and hardware for intelligent
building control and security systems and is based in Vancouver, Canada with offices in Austin,
Texas; Antwerp, Belgium; and Beijing, China. ALYA International is listed on the OTC bulletin
board under the symbol ALYA.
Contact:
ALYA International, Inc.
Dale Paruk, 888/595-6444
Email inquiries: stock@alya.com
Website: www.alya.com |
