Communication Intelligence Corp. Appoints Vice President Retail Sales
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. — November 21, 1996 — Communication Intelligence Corp. (CIC) (NASDAQ:CICI) announced today the appointment of William Tauskey to the position of vice president, Retail Sales, to implement the company's plan to sell desktop pen computing products into the retail channel.
Tauskey has extensive experience in managing the sales growth of high technology products in retail channels. He gained senior sales management experience in this area at IBM, VisiCorp, Plus Development (Quantum), and Calera Recognition Systems.
Tauskey is responsible for planning and implementing CIC's sales plans for all products in the retail channels. The initial focus will be selling the Handwriter line of input device peripherals.
"We recently announced the cooperation with CompUSA to launch Handwriter sales into the consumer market. We are pleased to welcome Mr. Tauskey to the CIC team. His specific background, introducing innovative PC-related products in retail channels, is precisely the experience CIC needs to fully capitalize on retail sales," said James Dao, chairman and CEO. "Recruiting Mr. Tauskey is a reflection of CIC's enthusiasm for a long-term commitment to the retail channels."
The Company Communication Intelligence Corp. develops, markets, and licenses natural input computer technology — products that use pen and image for input. Founded in 1981, CIC is a leading supplier of pen computing software products to hardware manufacturers throughout the world.
The company's products include the multilingual Handwriter(R) Recognition System and SigCheck(TM) dynamic signature verification software, and the PenDOS(R) and PenMac(R) pen operating environments.
CIC markets software tools such as InkTools(TM) and Sign-it(TM), which allow signature capture and verification within computer applications; Handwriter(R) line of peripheral input devices which enable PC users to have pen input capabilities on their desktop and laptop personal computers; Software products for the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) CE operating system platform — Jot(TM), a compact handwriting recognition system and QuickNotes(TM), a fast and simple electronic mobile note taker application.
CIC is headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., and has subsidiaries in Japan and China. CIC's stock is publicly traded on Nasdaq, symbol CICI.
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