Merisel Appoints Mary Chin to Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Computing Division

Business Wire, Jan 5, 1999

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1999--Merisel Inc. (Nasdaq:MSEL) Tuesday announced the appointment of Mary Chin to the position of vice president and general manager of its enterprise computing division.

Chin will implement Merisel's strategy to establish the company's leadership position in the enterprise computing market. Yesterday marked Chin's first day at Merisel.

"We have identified enterprise computing odel to take advantage of the growing enterprise computing marketplace. We believe that a high-touch, highly specialized approach in this market segment, with heavy emphating new division," said Bill Page, Merisel's vice president and general manager, the Merisel Open Computingn the marketplace, including target customers and key vendors, and building an enterprise computing team, whhe opportunity to join Merisel and to lead the enterprise computing team," said Chin. "I look forward to growing this business and establishing strong relationships with resellers selling into the enterprise computing market."

Most recently, Chin served as vice president of marketing operations at Unisys Corp., one of the leading worldwide computer manufacturers and service providers to enterprise business-to-business customers.

Prior to joining Unisys, Chin served as the vice president of commercial systems for NEC Technologies, one of the top-five worldwide manufacturers of computing, communications and peripheral equipment. Previously, she held marketing and sales management positions with a number of computer companies, including Hewlett-Packard Co., where she served in marketing management for 13 years.

Merisel is a leader in the distribution of computer hardware and software products. Based in El Segundo, Merisel is a Fortune 500 Company with reported 1997 sales of $4.05 billion. Merisel distributes a full line of 25,000 products and services from the industry's leading manufacturers to resellers throughout North America. Merisel's corporate Web site is located at www.merisel.com.