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To: Souze who wrote (7713)	1/13/2000 9:50:00 AM
From: Straight Up	Respond to of 10081

I apologize if this was already postedMonday January 10, 9:03 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: WhiteLight Systems, Inc. Richard Ghiossi Joins WhiteLight as Vice President of Marketing Twenty-Year High Tech Veteran to Lead Major Marketing Push in 2000 PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- WhiteLight Systems, Inc. today announced that Richard Ghiossi has joined the company as vice president marketing. Ghiossi comes to WhiteLight with more than 20 years of high-tech marketing experience and a successful track record in marketing, product management and business development. In his new position, Ghiossi will lead WhiteLight's marketing team as the company significantly ramps up its marketing efforts in 2000. He will report to WhiteLight Chief Executive Officer Dennis McGinn. (Photo: NewsCom: newscom.com ) Ghiossi was most recently Vice President of Product Marketing for General Magic. Prior to that he spent 16 years with Tandem (a Compaq Company), building and leading the company's Business Intelligence business unit. At WhiteLight Ghiossi replaces Michael Brill, who joined WhiteLight in 1997 as vice president of marketing and left the company in October to start-up his own venture. ``In 1999 we shipped the second major version of our product and added a strong sales team. With the addition of Rich Ghiossi, we now have a full executive team in place to execute on our business plans,' said McGinn. ``We will be leveraging Rich's experience to drive next-generation product requirements and to create a visible and compelling presence for WhiteLight in the emerging Decision Processing market.' The WhiteLight(TM) Analytic Suite v2.0 began shipping at the end of September 1999. The suite includes a set of products from WhiteLight that enable large enterprises to build a new class of business intelligence applications that support and automate the entire process of making complex decisions. Customers that have purchased the WhiteLight Suite include Boo.com, Chase Manhattan, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson bank, GE Capital, Lehman Brothers and Unilever. ``WhiteLight's impressive list of early customers have proven that the product can dramatically change the nature of how business intelligence is done within large enterprises,' said Ghiossi. ``I look forward to leading a first-class marketing effort that leverages these great customers and great technology to make WhiteLight an enormous success.' WhiteLight now has approximately 100 employees -- up from 40 at the beginning of 1999. Much of that growth has come in the sales organization led by Vice President of Sales for the Americas and Asia-Pacific John Buie, and European Managing Director Peter Beard. Ghiossi joins McGinn, Buie, Beard, Vice President of Engineering Lee Harris, Vice President of Business Development Chip Goodman, and Chief Financial Officer Rich Vicenti as part of the executive management team for the company. Earlier in his career, Ghiossi held engineering positions at Zitel Corporation, Rodenstock and DataProducts Corporation. He earned his B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from California Polytechnical State University in San Luis Obispo. About WhiteLight WhiteLight Systems, Inc. develops and markets the industry's first Analytic Application Server, the foundation for a new class of applications that support Integrated Decision Processing (IDP). IDP is a new approach to decision making in large enterprises -- combining the process automation of ERP software with the analytical insight of business intelligence. IDP moves beyond information delivery, and simple query and analysis, to delivering end-to-end systems for automating complex business decision processes. WhiteLight is a privately held company based in Palo Alto, California, with European headquarters in Bracknell, UK. For more information about WhiteLight Systems, visit whitelight.com . NOTE: WhiteLight is a registered trademark of WhiteLight Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. SOURCE: WhiteLight Systems, Inc.