COSTA MESA, Calif., Nov. 20, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) announced today the appointment of Jim McCluney to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer, reporting to Paul Folino, Emulex CEO. Initially, McCluney will focus on the integration of Vixel operations into Emulex, including sales, marketing, engineering and manufacturing. Kirk Roller, who will continue to report to Folino, will assume the role of President, Worldwide Sales, and will oversee sales activity for all Emulex product lines, focusing on customers and strategic relationships.
"We are pleased to welcome Jim McCluney to our management team, as he brings a wealth of entrepreneurial experience and operational expertise that will serve Emulex well as we pursue emerging opportunities in the embedded and SMB, or small-to-medium business sectors," said Paul Folino, Emulex CEO. Previously, McCluney served as President and CEO of Vixel, which Emulex acquired on November 17, 2003. During his tenure at Vixel, McCluney successfully migrated Vixel's strategic focus to pioneer the emerging embedded storage switching market, where Vixel achieved a leadership position. Prior to joining Vixel, McCluney co-founded and co-led Ridge Technologies, a storage subsystem and management software company that was acquired by Adaptec, which then retained McCluney as Corporate Vice President of Storage Systems. Prior to his positions at Ridge and Adaptec, McCluney served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations for Apple Computer, where he implemented a worldwide restructuring of manufacturing, logistics, distribution and information systems structures and processes. Prior to his tenure at Apple, McCluney worked at Digital Equipment Corporation, where as Vice President of Worldwide Materials and Logistics, he led a team of 8000 employees with a $6 billion procurement budget.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the world's largest supplier and developer of storage networking host bus adapters and a leading provider of embedded storage connectivity technologies to the industry's top-tier storage and server manufacturers. Emulex was recently named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in 2002, and ranked number 15 in Deloitte & Touche's 2003 Technology Fast 50.
The Emulex award-winning product families, including its LightPulse(tm) HBAs and InSpeed(tm) embedded storage switching products, are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies spanning both Fibre Channel and IP networking protocols, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership. The company's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Apple, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and Xyratex. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. Additionally, Emulex and Intel, via a joint development agreement, are pioneering the industry's first storage processors for Serial ATA, Serial Attached SCSI and Fibre Channel interfaces within a single architecture.
Emulex markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as its two-tier distribution partners, including ACAL, Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Info-X, Netmarks, Tech Data, TidalWire and Tokyo Electron. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at www.emulex.com.
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