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- Item 3718169 95/01/03 09:22
- From: DENISE_SCHNEIDER@NEXT.COM@INTERNET#
- Subject: MARTIN YAM JOINS NeXT AS V P Worldwide Sales
-
-
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
-
- Contact:
- Karen Logsdon
- NeXT Computer, Inc.
- 415-780-3786
- or
- Lisa Hahn
- Copithorne & Bellows
- 415-975-2226
-
- MARTIN YAM JOINS NeXT AS VICE PRESIDENT
- OF WORLDWIDE SALES AND MARKETING
-
- REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-January 3, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. today
- announced that Martin A. Yam, 43, has joined the company as Vice
- President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. Yam, who has more than
- 20 years of experience in software sales and marketing, has also been
- named to NeXT's executive management team.
-
- "We are extremely pleased to have Marty join our senior management
- team and lead our vertical sales and marketing efforts which are
- focused on the communications, financial services and government
- markets," said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer,
- Inc. "Marty brings real-world knowledge of the object marketplace
- and will help us continue to build momentum for NeXT and for
- objects."
-
- "NeXT has superior technology and I think it has a unique opportunity
- in the marketplace to help corporate customers overcome the
- difficulties of client/server computing using objects," said Martin
- A. Yam. "I look forward to the challenge of making NeXT's object
- architecture the standard for object-oriented computing."
-
- Prior to joining NeXT, Yam was Senior Vice President of Worldwide
- Sales and Services at Dynasty Technologies. Before that, he served
- as Vice President of Sales and Services at ParcPlace Systems, Inc.
- While at ParcPlace, Yam was responsible for building a direct sales
- organization that increased sales from $3.4M to more than $26M,
- leading to the company's initial public offering in 1994. Yam also
- has managed vertical markets and sales channels at Gupta
- Technologies, Informix Software and Oracle Corporation.
-
- NeXT Computer, Inc.
-
- NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented
- software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use
- NEXTSTEP's advanced object environment to rapidly develop and deploy
- custom, enterprise-wide, client/server applications. NeXT is
- headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North
- America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo.
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-
- NeXT, the NeXT logo and OpenStep, NEXTSTEP are trademarks or
- registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks
- mentioned belong to their respective owners.