SAN JOSE, CA - July 9, 2002 -
Quantum3D®, Inc., a leading provider of open architecture
realtime 3D visual computing solutions for the Visual Simulation
and Training (VST) and Embedded Visual Computing (EVC) markets,
announced today that Jack Hanna has joined the company as vice
president of worldwide sales. In this newly created position,
Hanna reports directly to Jeff Edson, Quantum3D president and
CEO. Hanna leads a team of seasoned sales management that includes
Alasdair MacPherson, who heads Quantum3D's European and North
American sales team; Stu Taylor, who is responsible for Quantum3D's
sales in Asia; and Tom McAfee, who is in charge of the company's
Embedded Visual Computing (EVC) sales.
"Quantum3D is enjoying significant success as both commercial
and military customers around the world elevate their demands
for 3D visual computing systems based on non-proprietary, open
technology," said Edson. "To meet this opportunity,
we must continually expand our corporate team with seasoned
management who have helped companies move to the next level.
Jack Hanna has this experience. His nearly 20 years of achievements
in sales and management in graphics intensive markets will be
extremely valuable to Quantum3D in its next stage critical of
growth."
Prior to joining Quantum3D, Hanna was central
region vice president at newScale, an enterprise software provider.
He also was co-founder and chief executive officer for Ulysses
netSolution, a provider of ecommerce solutions. At netSolution,
Hanna built a highly successful organization that achieved profitability
in one year and grew over 330 percent in staff.
Hanna began his career in the computer graphics
industry with Adage Computer. From there he joined Silicon Graphics
where he held a number of senior sales management positions
during his 10 years with that company. Hanna also served as
area sales manager for Alias/Wavefront.
About Quantum3D
Quantum3D develops and markets realtime 3D visual computing
systems and software for the visual simulation and training
market and realtime 2D/3D graphics subsystems and software for
avionics, ground vehicle and other Embedded Visual Computing
applications. Quantum3D's AAlchemy™, Obsidian® nV and
Graphite™ family of scaleable, open architecture PC-based
image generators (PC-IGs) include mission critical features,
industry leading performance, superior graphics and image quality,
and unsurpassed value, which have made the products the industry
standard for synthetic environment training applications. In
addition, Quantum3D creates and distributes realtime development
software tools and products that enable developers to fully
optimize their applications to benefit from the company's visual
computing solutions. Quantum3D is the exclusive supplier of
NVIDIA graphics technology into the embedded visual computing
market. Quantum3D's embedded visual computing offerings include
the FARSIGHT nV™ program for custom form factor applications
embedded graphics applications, and the Sentiris™ and Ventana®
embedded graphics subsystems for COTS form factor embedded graphics
and training applications. Quantum3D is a privately held, venture-backed
company headquartered in San Jose, CA. For more information,
please see www.quantum3d.com.
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Ventana and Obsidian are registered trademarks,
and Sentiris, AAlchemy, Graphite, nVSync, FARSIGHT nV, OpenGVS
and Quantum3D are trademarks of Quantum3D, Inc. All other trademarks,
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