(Nasdaq:JNIC - JNI Corporation Appoints Wind River CEO To Board of Directors
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2001--JNI® Corporation (Nasdaq:JNIC - news) today announced Thomas M. St. Dennis, president and CEO of Wind River Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND - news), has been appointed to the JNI Board of Directors, increasing the board to six members.
``Tom brings his talent and experience to JNI's board at an important juncture for the company,'' said Neal Waddington, president and CEO. ``His previous experience as a director on the boards of publicly held companies, his leadership at Wind River, and his experience in engineering, sales, marketing and business development will assist JNI as an industry leading company.''
St. Dennis, 47, serves as a director for Wind River Systems. He joined Wind River in September 1999 as chief executive officer and director. From July 1992 to September 1999, he served as group vice president and president of the Planarization and Dielectric Deposition Product Business Group at Applied Materials. During his tenure at Applied Materials, he rose from a regional division manager to his most recent position, where he was responsible for the management of three division P&Ls and over 1,600 employees in both the United States and Japan. Prior to joining Applied Materials, St. Dennis was vice president of technology at the Silicon Valley Group and vice president of sales and marketing at Semiconductor Systems. St. Dennis received master's and bachelor's degrees in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
About JNI Corporation
JNI Corporation is a leading manufacturer of enterprise-level products used to create storage networks, and is the dominant manufacturer of host bus adapters (HBAs) for the Solaris environment. JNI offers a broad line of FibreStar® HBAs, Emerald(TM) ASICs, and EZ Fibre(TM) and DriverSuite(TM) software for SANs. JNI's products operate on Solaris, Windows 2000, Windows NT, HP-UX, AIX, Novell, Linux and Mac OS systems. JNI customers, distributors and strategic partners include Acal FCS, Avid, Bell Microproducts, Brocade, Chaparral, Compaq StorageWorks, Consan, Crossroads, EMC, Eurologic, Gadzoox, GE Access, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, Info X, LSI Logic, McDATA, Nishan Systems, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, TidalWire and VERITAS. Company headquarters are in San Diego, with offices throughout the U.S. and Munich (Munchen), Germany.
Forward Looking Statements
With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include: our dependence on a small number of OEM and distribution channel customers; potential delays in product development; our dependence on sole source and limited source suppliers for key components; our dependence on growth in the market for servers utilizing the Solaris operating system; increasing competition in the Fibre Channel market; our exclusive focus on Fibre Channel products; rapid technological change in our industry; changes in the storage area networks market; our reliance on manufacturers in other countries; potential litigation involving intellectual property and other issues; and other risk factors discussed in the company's reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
JNI, JNIC FibreStar, Emerald, EZ Fibre and DriverSuite are trademarks or registered trademarks of JNI Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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:=) Gary Swancey
