Kenneth Venuti joins Melita International as Director of Product Management

Business Wire, Feb 9, 1996

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 1996--Kenneth T. Venuti has joined Melita International, a worldwide leader of Call Center solutions, as director of product management.

Headquartered in the Atlanta metropolitan area, Melita has over 1500 installations worldwide, spanning 17 countries and six continents.

As Melita's new head of product management, Venuti will take a leadership role in new product development, direction, analysis and product life cycle management. He will report directly to the company's Senior Vice President of Professional Services, Ken Thatcher.

According to Thatcher, "Ken's broad experience in telecommunications and data communications coupled with his background of managing senior level product managers will prove invaluable as Melita expands its product line to include comprehensive solutions that impact the entire enterprise."

Venuti has more than twelve years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Before joining Melita, he was manager, product line management at Fujitsu Network Switching where he was responsible for all new products and services applicable to ATM switching systems. Prior to that, he was a senior product manager at Siemens Stromberg-Carlson and managed phases of product planning for new products and features relating to central-office switching systems.

Venuti holds a bachelor of science degree, electronics engineering technology, from DeVry Institute of Technology, where he majored in electronic principles and theory, microprocessor based digital logic design, computer programming and data communications.

CONTACT: Melita International

Ginny Fisher, 800/635-4821, or 770/409-4549

Fax, 770/409-4725

E-mail, gfisher@melita.com

or

Baron, McDonald & Wells

Soon Mee Kim, 770/492-0373

Fax, 770/492-0374

E-mail, smkim@bmwpr.com