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Reaction Design Welcomes Neil Rappaport as New Board Member |
SAN DIEGO – January 31, 2008 – Reaction Design, the clean technology chemistry leader, today announced that Neil Rappaport has joined the Reaction Design Board of Directors. This appointment strengthens the Company’s team as it moves forward with its strategic growth initiatives. “Reaction Design is truly fortunate to have someone of Neil’s experience and successful track record in guiding companies through rapid growth and developing global sales organizations join us at this time,” stated Albert Hugo-Martinez, Chairman of the Board of Reaction Design. “Neil’s career accomplishments and experience in the financial management of high-tech, global companies will be of great benefit to Reaction Design.” Mr. Rappaport spent 17 years as Vice President of Sales for Vitesse (NASDAQ: VTSS), where he built a worldwide sales team and helped grow revenues from inception to over $500M. Prior to Vitesse, Neil held the position of National Sales Manager of North American Sales for San Diego-based AMCC (NASDAQ: AMCC), where he was a member of the founding team. Most recently, he has been involved with a number of venture-backed companies through his association with Windward Ventures and Arcturus Capital. “I am excited to join the Reaction Design Board,” said Rappaport. “I look forward to contributing to the success of this deeply talented group. Reaction Design has been well-positioned for rapid growth over the next few years with a well-established product portfolio, high-value new products, and strong customer engagements.”About Reaction Design Reaction Design, a San Diego-based software supplier, enables transportation manufacturers and energy companies to rapidly achieve their Clean Technology goals by automating the analysis of chemical processes via computer simulation and modeling solutions. Reaction Design is the exclusive developer and distributor of CHEMKIN, the de facto standard for modeling gas-phase and surface chemistry that provides engineers ultra-fast access to reliable answers that save time and money in the Development process. Reaction Design also offers the CHEMKIN-CFD software package, which brings detailed kinetics modeling to other engineering applications, such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) programs. Reaction Design’s world-class engineers, chemists and programmers have expertise that spans multi-scale engineering from the molecule to the plant. Reaction Design serves more than 350 customers in the commercial, government and academic markets. Reaction Design can be found online at www.reactiondesign.com. CHEMKIN® and Reaction Design® are registered trademarks of Reaction Design. CHEMKIN-CFD and Model Fuels Consortium are trademarks of Reaction Design. |