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AUSPICE® CORPORATION APPOINTS STEVEN BIRER AS PRESIDENT
Innovative Software Firm Set to Gain Momentum in Cable Broadband Services and Other Industries
Framingham, MA - July 17, 2003 - Auspice Corporation, The Enterprise Control™ Company, today announced that Steven S. Birer has joined the company as President. Birer, an investment banking and financial services veteran, will head the privately-held real-time systems integration and operations automation software firm from its Framingham, MA headquarters. He has also joined the six-year-old company's board of directors and will report to Andrew W. Gordon, Auspice's Founder, Chairman and CEO.
"Steven has the business strategy experience, the creative spark and the strong work ethic to build upon our success as a preferred supplier of end-to-end service automation solutions in the broadband industry," said Gordon. "He has the savvy to expand our footprint in that industry and to grow our business in other fertile markets."
"I am truly excited to be here at Auspice," said Birer. "I inherit a great team and an industry-leading product at a time when corporate America is looking to capture the benefits of prior IT investments. Auspice's array of products are uniquely positioned to help our clients manage their existing IT infrastructure. The company, which has enjoyed strong growth in these difficult times, is at a pivotal growth point. I look forward to providing the company with the necessary focus to further succeed in its current market and to identify and make inroads in other promising markets."
Recently running his own consulting business, Birer's experience includes managing research practices at Wall Street's fastest-growing investment banks. As managing director of Robertson Stephens' Information Technology Group, he was instrumental in building a $50 million practice and was recognized by Institutional Investor and Reuters as one of the top technology analysts in America. Prior to that, Birer was one of the founding members of Hambrecht & Quist's Internet Practice - one of the earliest on Wall Street. Overall, he has been involved in more than 60 initial public offerings, secondary offerings and private company transactions. Earlier, Birer held various loan officer, policy analysis and senior auditor positions at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. and KPMG Peat Marwick (formerly Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co.).
Birer has a B.S. in Business Administration (with emphasis on finance and accounting) from the University of California, Berkeley and is a certified CPA.
About Auspice
Founded in 1997, Auspice, The Enterprise Control Company, is the first commercial developer of an enterprise control software platform that enables the extended enterprise to manage disparate technology infrastructure in an orchestrated manner to dramatically improve ROI. With its roots in the modern-day manned space program, Auspice's TLX® platform was originally developed for mission-critical and complex operational environments, such as the International Space Station (for NASA), which are characterized by heterogeneous systems that demand absolute reliability. Auspice is also the developer of the TLX-based OpsLogic Broadband Solution Suite - a set of integrated operations automation applications for broadband service providers. OpsLogic was developed on and can be extended with the Auspice TLX platform to meet the specific needs of individual service providers. Auspice TLX and Auspice OpsLogic™ applications are currently deployed at leading North American MSOs. Visit www.auspicecorp.com
For more information, contact:
| David Hayward Director of Marketing Auspice Corporation (508) 626-0033, Ext. 220 dhayward@auspicecorp.com |
“Now we have a unified tool that gives our technicians a single view across multiple services – voice, video and data.”
Director, NOC Operations, Major North American MSO