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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Xerox North American Executive Gary
Gillam to Lead
Computing Technology Industry Association Board of Directors
Elected Chairman at Annual Breakaway Conference
Las Vegas, Nev., August 5, 2005 –An information technology (IT)
industry veteran will lead the board of
directors of the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) in
2005-2006, the association
announced today.
Gary Gillam, vice president, North American
Resellers Channel Operations, Xerox North America, was
elected chairman at this week’s Breakaway 2005 conferencehere. Breakaway
is the premiere partnering
event for IT business leaders, resellers, manufacturers, distributors,
and solutions providers.
Gillam succeeds Robert J. Sartor as chairman
of the CompTIA board. Sartor, director of industry and
customer programs for DHL Information Systems (Americas) Inc., will
continue to serve as an ex-officio
member of the board.
In his role at Xerox, Gillam is responsible
for sales of printers and low to mid-range multifunction products
through distributors as well as national resellers. He maintains
responsibility for inside sales organizations
that support value-added resellers, solutions providers and service
contract sales. Gillam held domestic and
global senior sales positions at Tektronix and Microrim prior to joining
Xerox. He is a graduate of the
University of Oregon with a degree in Journalism.
Elected vice chairman of the CompTIA board
of directors was Wayne Mize, vice president, solutions
marketing division, Ricoh Corp.
Todd Meister, president, Global Recruiters
of Madison, will serve as CompTIA board treasurer for 2005-06.
Alan Borck, president and chief executive officer, ARC Communications,
was elected board secretary.
Also elected to the CompTIA board of directors were Robin Adda,
gtsleaning; David Bernstein, Anything IT;
Greg Dixon, ScanSource, Inc.; Rick Gray, Decision One; Lisa Loe,
Symantec Corporation; Bill Owens,
Lenovo; Pete Peterson, Tech Data Corp.; Jon Reardon, Reardon &
Associates, Inc.; Glen Robertson,
SERVICE 800 Inc.; Ted Roller, Quanexus North; Mark Romanowski, AMC
System Integration, Inc.; M.J.
Shoer, Jenaly Technology Group, Inc.; and Brian Wiser, Ingram Micro.
About CompTIA
CompTIA is a global trade association representing the business
interests of the information technology
industry. For more than 22 years CompTIA has provided research,
networking and partnering opportunities to
its more than 20,000 members in 89 countries. The association is
involved in developing standards and best
practices, and influencing the political, economic and educational
arenas that impact IT worldwide. More
information is at www.comptia.org.
Contact:
Steven Ostrowski
CompTIA
+1(630) 678 8468
sostrowski@comptia.org
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