New Slate of UniForum Directors Elected
UniForum members, in balloting held during June, elected four
new members and one incumbent to the UniForum Board of Directors.
Each member will serve a two-year term.
The four new members on the board bring with them years of experience
as industry leaders as both vendors and end users. Their election
will be ratified and the board's new officers selected at the
UniForum Board of Directors meeting to be held July 21 in Boston.
The newly elected members of the board are:
- Michael Tilson, senior vice president of the Santa Cruz
Operation and current president of UniForum
- Ronald Lachman, chairman of Internet Dynamics, Inc., and
a past UniForum board member
- Alan Fedder, president of the Washington Area Unix Users
Group, and a former ex officio representative to the board
- Wayne Fowler, director of technology and network services,
Toronto Stock Exchange
- Donna Van Fleet, vice president of AIX systems development,
IBM.
These members together with incumbent directors Roel Pieper,
UB Networks; Jeanne Baccash, AT&T GIS; Jim Bell, Hewlett-Packard;
Randall Howard, MKS; and Michael Prince, Burlington Coat Factory
(ex officio), will direct the strategic course of the association
for the next year as UniForum begins a number of new ventures
in bringing education and information about open systems to its
worldwide membership.
More detailed descriptions and remarks from the new board members
will following the next UniNews.