LONGMONT, Colorado, Mar. 7, 2005 -
Conduant Corporation (www.conduant.com), the leading developer of
direct-to-disk, long duration recording and playback systems, announced
today that Christopher Groff joins the company as Vice President of
North American Sales. In this new position, Mr. Groff will have
responsibility for business development in the Northeast region and
management of several national account relationships.
Mr. Groff has over 20 years experience in
technical sales and marketing. He will work with Rep-tron Inc. in
Maryland and ESI Computing, Inc. of Carlisle, Massachusetts, two highly
respected channel organizations in the Northeast, to market ConduantÍs
StreamStor and Big River error-free recording and playback technology
to key government and commercial operations. Mr. Groff reports to
ConduantÍs Vice President of Business Development, Tom Skrobacz.
"We value Chris' experience marketing to
federal agencies and government contractors," said Tom Skrobacz. "His
efforts, coordinated with those of our channel partners, will expand
StreamStor technology presence in government, military and scientific
applications."
Prior to joining Conduant, Mr. Groff served in
various executive positions at Telcordia Technologies. He was President
and Founder of SOS Consultants, a sales and marketing company.
Conduant's Market and Customers
Conduant sells to government prime
contractors, systems integrators, original equipment manufacturers and
end users. Key applications include: radio astronomy, radar/sonar
gathering, digital signal processing, GPS downloads and other
instrumentation applications. StreamStor is also used in
high-resolution imaging, digital cinematography, and atmospheric
applications as well.
Conduant's customers include the MIT Haystack
Observatory, NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), Raytheon,
Motorola, TRW, Boeing, Sandia National Labs, US Navy, NASA Ames
Research Center, Applied Signal Technology, National Instruments,
Georgia Institute of Technology and many others.
http://www.conduant.com),
founded in 1996, develops the StreamStor™/ Big River families of PCI and
CompactPCI disk controllers for high-speed recording and playback of
digital data. Solutions are available in Windows, Linux and VxWorks
environments and are used in scientific research, military, aerospace
and instrumentation applications. Conduant’s products are guaranteed
and will sustain data rates up to and beyond 400 MBytes/second. In
2004, Conduant ranked 172nd in Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 500. It ranked 9th
in the Deloitte and Touche Fast 50 in Colorado and 228th in Deloitte’s
Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the fastest growing technology
companies in North America. Conduant is a privately held company
located in Longmont, Colorado