Stampede Announces New VP of Marketing and Business Development; Former NCR Executive Joins Stampede to Broaden Awareness of Its Lotus Acceleration Tools

Business Wire, Dec 12, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2000

Stampede Technologies Inc., the leading developer of remote accelerator software, Tuesday announced that George Schneider has joined its ranks as its new vice president of marketing and business development.

Schneider brings over 35 years of business, marketing and engineering experience to Stampede Technologies to help establish Stampede as a cutting edge developer of acceleration products for Lotus Notes and Domino server environments.

"It's an honor to bring such an experienced and high caliber executive to our management team to drive our marketing efforts to become leaders in acceleration products for Lotus Notes infrastructures," stated Gordon Dorworth, president and chief executive officer of Stampede Technologies Inc.

"George will help Stampede build market awareness of our solutions and help our sales department brand and create messages to increase overall sales."

Prior to Stampede, Schneider held senior level positions with NCR Corp. and IBM Corp. He was manager of marketing and business development for over 12 years at NCR, moving through the ranks from manager of engineering evaluation to senior product manager to manager of strategic planning.

In his 27-year stint with NCR, Schneider built a strong skill set to include marketing, business and strategic planning, product management and alliance marketing. Prior to NCR, Schneider worked at IBM as an evaluation and principal engineer.

Schneider will be driving the marketing efforts for all of Stampede's current products and future products, and will be responsible for new business development efforts to grow Stampede's relationships with large-scale customers.

TurboGold software uses patented (U.S. Patents 5,682,514 & 5,835,943 & 6,012,085 & 6,122,637) compression, streaming and caching techniques to accelerate the transfer of Lotus Notes databases. TurboGold adapts to different workloads and incorporates the ability to grow with the customer's network as new clients and servers are added.

As it does so, TurboGold enhances the flow of Lotus Notes information throughout the network. TurboGold's client-to-server and server-to-server applications support Lotus Notes 4.5 and above, including R5. TurboGold's client runs on Windows NT, 95, 98, and 2000 and TurboGold's server runs on Windows NT, IBM AS/400 and RS/6000 (AIX) platforms.

For more information on TurboGold, please contact Stampede Technologies at 800/763-3423 or visit their web site at www.stampede.com.

Stampede, Stampede TurboGold and TurboGold are registered trademarks of Stampede Technologies Inc. Lotus, Lotusphere and Lotus Notes are registered trademarks of Lotus Development Corp. Notes and Domino are trademarks of Lotus Development Corp.