SKYCACHE INC. WELCOMES CHRIS ICIDE AS NEW VP OF ENGINEERING
FOR RELEASE ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1998 AT 10:00 AM ET
SkyCache, Inc.
CONTACT:
Laurel, MD (September 23, 1998) - SkyCache Inc., the nation's
premier high-speed, datacasting company revolutionizing the Internet,
today announced the addition of Chris Icide as Vice President of
Engineering. Mr. Icide will have overall responsibility for the Company's
operations, research and product development, systems and customer
installation activities.
Prior to SkyCache, Mr. Icide was named Senior Vice President of
Engineering and Chief Technical Officer for Priori Networks, Inc. located
in Redwood City, CA. Mr. Icide was responsible for managing the company's
operations, sales and marketing. Under his supervision, Priori's network
availability increased to greater than 99.5% through network redesign and
simplified operations.
Before heading Priori's engineering, Mr. Icide served as the Senior
Network Architect for Genuity, Inc., owned by GTE. He assumed the key
engineering effort for incorporating a newly acquired Internet network
into the company's existing network infrastructure. Mr. Icide also worked
as Senior Network Engineer/Operations Manager for Nap.Net, Inc., assisting
in expanding its revenues into the millions and making it one of the
seventh largest Internet backbones in the nation.
"Chris' years of technology experience in the Internet industry have given
him the strong operating and engineering skills to propel SkyCache's
services world-wide," said Doug Humphrey, president and chief executive
officer. "We are ecstatic that he has joined our management team."
Prior to his commercial engineering and management experience, Mr. Icide
founded MISHA, Inc., a small regional Internet Service Provider located in
Rockford, IL. Under his direction as CEO/President, he grew the company
to market leader in its service territory and sold the company to a large
well-established regional Internet Service Provider.
Mr. Icide has a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering from the
University of Missouri-Rolla.
About SkyCache
SkyCache is devoted to the implementation and operation of high-speed
satellite datacasting systems for the movement of World Wide Web content,
Usenet News, digital audio and video data streams, and the synchronization
of distributed data systems. The corporation is headquartered in Laurel,
MD and founded by Internet pioneer Doug Humphrey. Humphrey is also the
founder of DIGEX, Inc., a 1991
basement
startup ISP that was sold for $150 million to Intermedia Communications,
Inc. (NASDAQ: ICIX) in 1997.
Additional information on SkyCache services is available at
www.skycache.com. "SkyCache" and
its logo are trademarked throughout the world. SkyCache is a privately
held company.
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