WhereNet Senior Vice President, Tom Turner, to Discuss Real-Time Locating Systems At the GIS 2001 Conference

    SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Feb. 20, 2001--Members of the media are invited to hear Tom Turner, senior vice president of WhereNet(R) Corp., speak Wed., Feb. 21 at GIS 2001, the 15th annual Geographic Information Systems Conference, at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Center in Vancouver, British Columbia. WhereNet, the worldwide leader in wireless supply chain visibility solutions, will be one of the featured companies at the Location in a Wireless World Conference, which is co-located as part of GIS 2001. The Location in a Wireless World Conference has been created to bring together leaders from the geospatial technology and wireless industries to explore and discuss technology trends, implementation, and opportunities of the promising, new wireless location-based services industry.
    Turner will participate in a session titled, "Applications and Implementation." As part of a three-person panel, Turner will discuss wireless location-based applications as related to supply chain management, implementation challenges associated with this new technology, and the future possibilities of integration with other wireless enterprise applications. This session is scheduled for Wed., Feb. 21, at 3:30 p.m. at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Center in Vancouver, British Columbia.
    WhereNet is the first company to design, build, and market Supply Chain Visibility solutions for locating, tracking, and managing supply chain resources. WhereNet systems are being used by several major Fortune 500 companies including Ford Motor Company and Coca-Cola, to manage inventory, track containers, monitor job orders, connect wireless call (Kanban) systems, locate property, ensure quality processes, and provide personal safety. WhereNet's Web-enabled solutions seamlessly connect an enterprise's resources and assets to its information system in real time.

    When and Where

    Attendees of the GIS 2001/Location in a Wireless World Conference can hear Turner's session "Applications and Implementation," on Wed., Feb. 21, 2001, at 3:30 p.m. at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Center in Vancouver, British Columbia. For more information about the GIS 2001 Conference, visit their Web site at: http://www.gisconference.com/default.htm.

    About Tom Turner

    Tom Turner, WhereNet senior vice president, joined WhereNet in 1999 from Datamax Corporation, a leading supplier of products and services for the bar code industry, where he was president and director for five years. Under Turner's leadership, Datamax grew bar code printer business five-fold, expanded the product line, and earned recognition for the development of international business in the form of the U.S. Presidential "E Award" for Export Excellence. Prior to Datamax, he was senior vice president-North America for Symbol Technologies, where he managed the transition of Symbol to a system supplier of wireless LAN products for data collection, and more than doubled the business. Earlier in his career, Turner held various positions with Wang Laboratories including director of sales and marketing for Wang Australia where he led the sales team that secured the largest order in Wang's history at that time. He also served as president and CEO of Wang Canada where he turned around the subsidiary to profitability and grew the Canadian business, at a time when U.S. operations was losing market share. He earned a BSEE from Tufts University.

    About WhereNet Corp.

    WhereNet Corp., winner of last year's Henry Ford Technology Award, is the first company to design, build, and market wireless Supply Chain Visibility solutions for locating, tracking, and managing supply chain resources, critical to success in today's competitive global business environment. WhereNet systems seamlessly connect a company's resources to its information systems, in real time. WhereNet's real-time locating and tracking technology utilize patented advances in spread-spectrum wireless technology to provide the ability to locate any tagged object with accuracy within 10 feet (3 meters). The result is constant, on-demand information about valuable assets in the supply chain, their physical location, and status. Driven by wireless tags, fixed position antennas and Web-enabled software, WhereNet's real-time solutions offer lower operating costs, improved return-on-assets, and higher levels of customer service for some of the World's leading companies such as Ford Motor Company, Coca Cola and FMC. Founded in 1997, WhereNet is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with sales offices throughout the United States and Europe. Information is available on the WhereNet Web site at www.wherenet.com or by calling 408-845-8500.

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