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To: J Fieb who wrote (1729)	1/19/2000 12:29:00 PM
From: Thomas Zoran	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4808

TrueSAN Recruits Marc Birnkrant as Chief Operating Officer Brings Strong Industry Track Record, Seasoned Management Mountain View, CA. January 12, 2000: TrueSAN Networks, a leader in Fibre Channel disk array and storage-area network solutions for the internetworked enterprise, has recruited Marc Birnkrant to the position of Chief Operating Officer. Marc will assist with developing and managing TrueSAN's infrastructure and service offerings. Marc Birnkrant brings to TrueSAN 16 years of management experience concentrated in the mass storage arena. Marc began his career at NEC Electronics where he provided technical support and marketing direction for NEC's family of single-chip microcontrollers. In 1992 Marc established the first application specific organization focused strictly on system solutions for the Hard Disk Drive market. In 1994, Marc funded a Bay-area startup to provide design expertise for NEC's foray into advanced digital read channels. Marc's final position at NEC was General Manager of the $250M Mass Storage Business unit. In early 1998 Marc moved to Singapore where he took over the responsibility as President of TriTech Microelectronics. Marc successfully reorganized TriTech to take advantage of its analog core competence. Marc then came back to the U.S. in early 1999 to start his own consulting firm, where he provided management expertise to two pre-IPO startups in networking and storage. Marc received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and holds a patent in the testing and emulation of an embedded CPU. "I am honored and ecstatic to join a company that is poised to take a leadership position in the exploding SAN market," stated Mr. Birnkrant. "TrueSAN's reputation for technological innovation, outstanding product quality, and its unique management leadership were just a few of the key elements used to confirm that this was a winning team and an outstanding opportunity." About TrueSAN Networks, Inc. TrueSAN Networks, Inc. is a privately-held Silicon Valley pioneer delivering open, maximum-performance end-to-end enterprise Fibre Channel RAID and storage-area network (SAN) solutions for bandwidth-critical applications, enterprise environments, and corporate networks. When TrueSAN announced its ground-breaking TrueFibre(tm) technologies and the 6000FC series, it set new standards for network storage performance, architecture scalability, cross-platform integration, and data-centric storage management. In addition, the EnterpriseCare program offers clients flexible and thorough service and support options, and the exclusive Internet-based Design your TrueSAN! guide enables potential customers to configure complete Fibre Channel SAN solutions online. TrueSAN's partners include industry leaders such as Seagate Technology (NYSE: SEG), Ancor Communications (Nasdaq: ANCR), Gadzoox Networks (Nasdaq: ZOOX), Qlogic (Nasdaq: QLGC), ADIC (Nasdaq: ADIC), Exodus Communications (Nasdaq: EXDS), RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK), and F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV). Thomas Isakovich TrueSAN Networks, Inc. tom@truesan.com www.truesan.com 408.817.9060 direct 650.766.4068 mobile 888.886.8551 toll-free 888.886.2250 fax TrueSAN: Empowering Storage Networks.(tm)