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To: Joseph Busch who wrote (644)12/10/1998 7:50:00 AM
From: Neil S  Respond to of 773
 
Ex-Compaq Executives Invest In Tricord

techweb.com

(12/09/98, 7:54 p.m. ET)
By Joe Wilcox, Computer Reseller News

Former top Compaq Computer executives continue to land in the oddest places.

After leading a mass exodus from GK Intelligent Systems in August, Compaq co-founder Rod Canion and friends have moved on to Tricord Systems.

Tricord, based in Plymouth, Minnesota, reached an agreement with the former Compaq CEO earlier this week for a private placement of 3 million shares of stock at $1 per share. The deal closes and will be funded Dec. 18.

Tricord's major software product is designed to make data sharing more transparent across storage area networks.

The company shifted gears from servers to storage in 1997, focusing on solving high-bandwidth Fibre Channel storage, according to a report from Summit Strategies, in Boston.

Along with the investment, Canion brings other former Compaq executives: J. David Cabello, former senior vice president and general counsel, and former marketing executives Kathleen Clark and Lewis Schrock.

Cabello will assume a similar role at Tricord, Clark will become vice president of marketing, and Schrock will become director of product marketing.

Cabello, Tim Harris, a former Compaq vice president, and Jack Sweeny, head of corporate communications, exited Houston-based GK with Canion. Sweeny is working on the Tricord account with an outside PR agency.

Cabello, Clark, Harris, and Schrock all have invested in Tricord.



To: Joseph Busch who wrote (644)12/10/1998 12:58:00 PM
From: Cosmo Daisey  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 773
 
Dr. Busch,
Good analysis of the situation. I agree that this is the beginning
of the process of bringing excellent technology to light. TRCD has had it's own set of problems in the past and it appears as though they have found the solution to take the company and the technology to the next level.
cdaiseyPhD@beldar_conehead.com