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To: J Fieb who wrote (26193)	2/22/2000 5:30:00 PM
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Ken Hendrickson and JNI Director of OEM Sales go back a long time at Western Digital. Maybe there might be some synergy there. ______________________________________________________ JNI Appoints Long-Time Western Digital Veteran John Casalaspi Senior Director of OEM Sales SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2000--JNI Corporation (Nasdaq:JNIC - news), a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance Fibre Channel products used in storage area networks (SANs), today named John Casalaspi senior director of OEM sales. Casalaspi, 40, will be responsible for all sales of PCI and SBus-based host bus adapters (HBAs), ASICs, and software to original equipment manufacturers, including management of JNI's OEM sales team. Casalaspi will report directly to Roland J. Thibodeau, executive vice president, sales, JNI. Casalaspi, a 15-year veteran of Western Digital, has nearly 20 years of OEM sales and engineering experience in the storage industry. Most recently, Casalaspi served as vice president, marketing and strategic sales with worldwide responsibility for WD's sales efforts to major companies, including Compaq, Dell, Gateway, Apple and IBM. As vice president, strategic sales at WD, Casalaspi oversaw sales efforts for hard disk drives, video boards, network cards and other devices to WD's six largest customers as well as managing the company's entire sales force. As regional sales director, Casalaspi managed the company's distribution channel in various territories throughout North America. He also held jobs as district sales manager and as a sales engineer. Before joining Western Digital, Casalaspi held sales and engineering positions with StorageTek in the New York area. ''John rounds out our senior sales management team, along with Mike Orenich, JNI's vice president of worldwide channel sales,'' said Thibodeau. ''Casalaspi will have two major duties: drive and expand our OEM sales staff, and help JNI boost sales to storage and server OEM's with our newly announced PC Server DriverSuite(TM) software drivers: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Mac OS, Linux and Novell.'' Casalaspi holds an M.B.A. in Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University, an M.S. in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University. About JNI Corporation JNI Corporation is a leading developer and manufacturer of Fibre Channel hardware and software products that form critical elements of SANs. JNI developed some of the first commercially available Fibre Channel-based products and the company concentrates exclusively on the Fibre Channel market. Because of JNI's early and continuous focus on developing technology and products based on the Fibre Channel standard, the company has successfully developed a broad line of PCI bus and SBus-based host bus adapters, ASICs and software that provide increased bandwidth for data communications, increased distance for high speed data transmission, guaranteed data delivery and scalability to large numbers of network connections. JNI is headquartered in San Diego. The company began trading on the Nasdaq exchange in Oct. 1999 under the symbol JNIC. JNI -- First in Fibre Channel(TM) JNI, JNIC and DriverSuite are trademarks or registered trademarks of JNI Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.