Millennial Net Expands Management Team to Suport Growth
Embedded Computing Veteran to Lead Corporate Marketing Initiatives for Wireless Sensor Networking Experts
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --April 12, 2004--Millennial Net, Inc., the leading developer of hardware and software for self-organizing, wireless sensor networks, today announced the appointment of Mark Pacelle as vice president of marketing. Pacelle brings domain expertise in embedded computing and marketing acumen to his role driving all product marketing and corporate communication initiatives for Millennial Net.
"The expansion of our management team and marketing is critical to accommodating corporate growth driven by new customer and partner relationships," said Andy May, president and chief executive officer, Millennial Net. "Mark has built a successful career leading strong marketing and product development teams. His breadth of experience unifying technology leadership, market demands and customer needs into a single product vision will help us realize our mission to engender a safer, more productive, convenient and connected world through wireless sensor networking technology."
Leading product management and marketing teams at HP, Compaq and SKY Computers, a subsidiary of Analogic Corporation, Pacelle has an impressive track record distilling customer and market needs to develop and launch innovative technology solutions. At SKY, he successfully created product categories and drove worldwide product launches that generated new market opportunities. Under Pacelle's guidance, SKY Computers brought to market a new, differentiated brand of high-performance embedded computing systems that has transformed the company into the leading supplier of embedded solutions for the military and defense and industrial inspection markets. Having also held management positions at large global technology companies, Pacelle brings experience navigating international partner and customer relationships and creating global product and brand recognition.
"Millennial Net's technology and its executive management and investors present a compelling leadership opportunity," said Pacelle. "With a talented team of innovators and leaders coupled with superior technology and unparalleled commitment to customer satisfaction, Millennial Net is poised to corner the market delivering solutions for ubiquitous wireless sensor networking."
Millennial Net delivers the technology leadership, value and partnerships to help make its customers successful in the markets in which they choose to compete. Its i-Bean technology delivers the smallest form factor, lowest power and most robust and secure wireless sensor networking hardware, software and tools available to enable a vast range of applications and products. Millennial Net and its i-Bean technologies have won numerous awards and industry recognition, including Sensors magazine’s Sensors Express Readers' Choice Award, a Best of Sensors Award from Sensors Expo and inclusion on the FocalPoint 40, a listing of the top 40 companies innovating, shaping and promoting machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Millennial Net was also recently named one of the top wireless startups by FierceWireless.
About Millennial Net
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., with offices in Tokyo, Japan, Millennial Net is the world's leading developer of hardware and software for self-organizing, low power wireless sensor networks. Millennial Net's award-winning networking software and tiny micro-power hardware elements, called i-Beans®, allow instrumentation and sensing devices like gauges, sensors and actuators to connect and communicate with each other over self-organizing, self-healing networks. Patent-pending engineering enables the i-Bean to operate with an extremely low rate of power consumption on the energy of a 3-volt coin-sized battery for years at a time. Wireless sensor networks enable the remote monitoring and management of critical devices while providing continuous streams of previously unavailable data to enable more informed decision-making, better control and increased revenue opportunities. Wireless sensor networks are in use today for industrial, medical, consumer and military applications. Millennial Net is committed to advancing Wireless Sensor Networking...Anywhere. For more information, please visit www.millennial.net.