SBE Appoints John D'Errico to Board of Directors; Industry Veteran Brings over 30 Years of Global Storage and Communications Ex
29 April 2006 - 2:24AM
Business Wire
SBE Inc., (NASDAQ:SBEI), a leading provider of high-performance
IP-based storage solutions serving a broad spectrum of business
critical systems and platforms, today announced the appointment of
John D'Errico to its Board of Directors, effective April 24, 2006.
John D'Errico currently provides strategic consulting services to
help companies grow and expand their businesses. He is the former
Executive Vice President of LSI Logic's Storage Component Business,
a business unit providing leading edge, hardware/software solutions
for the rapidly expanding storage market, which includes ASIC and
standard product SOC components, and host bus adapters. He was
responsible for overseeing the product planning and development,
engineering, and marketing efforts of LSI Logic's Storage
Components Division, including managing day-to-day operations,
meeting revenue and earnings targets, as well as building and
maintaining an infrastructure focused on long-term business
strategy and strategic direction. Mr. D'Errico began his career at
LSI Logic in 1984, and has held various senior management and
executive positions at its manufacturing facilities in the United
States and Japan. He also served as Vice President and General
Manager of LSI Logic's Pan Asia Marketing and Sales group. Prior to
LSI Logic, Mr. D'Errico held management positions in product
development and manufacturing at National Semiconductor, Fairchild,
Solitron, and Hughes Research Labs. "As SBE continues to expand its
portfolio and reach within the IP storage market, we're eager to
leverage John's impressive breadth of experience and insight of the
storage and communications industries," said Ronald J. Ritchie,
Chairman of the Board for SBE. Mr. D'Errico is currently a board
member of Therma Wave Corporation, a publicly-held company which
develops and markets optical and X-ray instruments used in the
semiconductor industry. He serves as chairman of the nominating and
corporate governance committees and as a member of the audit
committee for Therma Wave. Mr. D'Errico also served on the Colorado
Governor's Commission on Science and Technology from 1998 to 2003.
Mr. D'Errico holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
from Hofstra University. About SBE SBE designs and provides
IP-based storage networking solutions for an extensive range of
business critical applications. SBE delivers a portfolio of
scalable, standards-based hardware and software products designed
to enable optimal performance and rapid deployment across a wide
spectrum of next generation storage systems. Based in San Ramon,
California, SBE is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ:SBEI) with
products sold worldwide through direct sales, OEMs and system
integration partners. More information is available at
www.sbei.com. This news release contains certain forward-looking
statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including
statements about new product features, market opportunity for new
products, and the demand for services that may be offered by SBE's
customers. Such statements are only predictions and the company's
actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in
these forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause such
differences include, but are not limited to risks related to
rapidly changing product requirements, the introduction of new
products, market acceptance of the Company's products, and reliance
on strategic partners. These factors and others are more fully
discussed in the documents SBE files with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including SBE's Annual Report on Form 10-K.
SBE and the SBE logo are registered trademarks of SBE, Inc. All
other brand or product names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders.
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