| Mark Myers Joins ObjectFX as Vice President, Marketing |
Industry veteran to manage marketing and product management activitiesMinneapolis, MN – March 3, 2005 – ObjectFX, a leader in delivering dynamic location-enabled enterprise information solutions with SpatialFX®, its innovative and patented 100% Java/J2EE enterprise software platform, today announced Mark R. Myers as its Vice President of Marketing. Myers comes to ObjectFX from Convera Technologies, Inc., where he held a number of management positions during eight years with the company and most recently served as Vice President of Strategic Alliances. At ObjectFX, Myers will have responsibility for all marketing and product management activities. "We are very pleased and excited that Mark Myers has joined the ObjectFX team as Vice President, Marketing," said Barry Glick, CEO of ObjectFX. "Mark will be a key member of the management team, and his background in marketing leading-edge technology and in building strategic partnerships will be invaluable as we work to define new markets and launch new solutions using the powerful ObjectFX software platform." Myers has over 20 years of software marketing experience in several industry segments, including content management, information retrieval and cross-platform development tools. In eight years at Convera, Myers played a key role in the development and marketing of the company’s flagship RetrievalWare search and categorization platform, which attained a leading position in its product segment in the worldwide government market. "Spatial technologies have traditionally been applied in government applications, as well as in select vertical industry applications. Today we have a tremendous opportunity to re-define this market and to integrate spatial technologies into a much wider range of business processes and decision-making activities across industries. ObjectFX is aggressively pursuing this goal and I am delighted to be a part of this effort, said Myers." Myers received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Akron, and pursued graduate studies in management and technology at American University. About ObjectFXObjectFX provides an innovative 100% Java enterprise software platform that enables the integration of dynamic location-based services such as mapping, vehicle routing, address geocoding and other spatial operations into enterprise applications. SpatialFX 4.0 features unique capabilities such as support for mobile devices via Java 2, Micro Edition (J2ME); spatial rules and events; and support for location-relevant text information extraction and use. Users of applications built on the SpatialFX® Platform can view and interact with real-time, integrated views of information in a location-based context, thereby enabling faster, more effective decisions. ObjectFX’s technology serves as a foundation for a wide range of software applications that include Dynamic Operations Management, Wireless Services, Mobile Asset Management, Mapping & Routing, Location Analysis, Network Visualization & Management, Military Situational Analysis and Intelligence Data Fusion. ObjectFX products are installed at leading organizations such as Boeing, FedEx, JB Hunt, NGA, Lockheed Martin, AT&T, Florida DOT, United Health Care, Union Pacific, United Airlines, Conway, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, SAIC, General Dynamics, Unisys, QUALCOMM, Qwest, U.S. Army and the U.S. Postal Service. ObjectFX Corporation is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |