Pavilion Technologies names William Barrett senior vice president of sales and marketing

Business Wire, March 11, 1997

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 1997--

Process technology veteran to lead worldwide sales effort

Pavilion Technologies Inc., the leading supplier of data mining and real-time on-line analytic processing software for process optimization, has named William Barrett senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing.

Barrett is a veteran of the process industry, most recently serving as vice president of sales for Aspen Technology Inc. Barrett was also vice president of U.S. sales and marketing for ABB Industry Inc. (Stamford, Conn.) and held a variety of executive sales and marketing positions with Honeywell's Process Automation Division (Phoenix), and Fisher and Porter Co. (Warminister, Pa).

"Bill Barrett brings exceptional experience and professional expertise to the Pavilion management team and will be an important asset as we continue to expand our product line and our industry specialization," according to Ron Riedesel, chairman and chief executive officer of Pavilion. "Bill's track record of success throughout the process industries will contribute significantly to the continued growth of Pavilion Technologies."

"Pavilion Technologies is an exciting, innovative company with tremendous potential to make a significant impact on process-intensive industries throughout the world," said Barrett. "Pavilion's process optimization and control products result in real, bottom-line benefits for its customers, and provide a compelling answer for any company interested in rapidly improving efficiency and financial results with existing resources."

About Pavilion Technologies

Based in Austin, Pavilion is the world's leading provider of software for process optimization from historical production data. Pavilion's flagship product, Process Insights(TM), provides process engineers with the most powerful data mining software for optimization and control ever invented -- all packaged in a form that's as easy to use as a spreadsheet.

Pavilion's product line also includes advanced real-time OLAP software products for sensor validation, boiler optimization, soft sensors(R), and continuous emission monitoring in production facilities.

The company's rapidly expanding product line runs on Windows NT, UNIX, and VMS platforms. Pavilion's products are used by engineers at over 200 plant and mill sites worldwide to optimize and control complex production processes. Benefits include improvements in asset utilization, efficiency, and quality -- as well as environmental compliance -- without new capital investment. Pavilion has offices in Austin, Houston, Washington D.C., Frankfurt, and Brussels.

Pavilion can be reached at 11100 Metric Blvd., # 700, Austin, TX 78758, phone: 512/438-1400, fax: 512/438-1401.

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