Bobby Culpepper Appointed as Vice President of MetiLinx

1 Aug 2000
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Bobby Culpepper Appointed to Develop Product and Business Channels For Performance Optimization Software Pioneer

SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- MetiLinx, a pioneering developer of performance optimization software for Web applications, today announced that Bobby Culpepper, former CIO of Tesoro Petroleum, has joined MetiLinx as vice president of product and business development. Culpepper will be responsible for overseeing the expansion of the company's channel partnerships and embedding partner ideals into the company's flagship product as it evolves. As a former MetiLinx customer, Culpepper will bring his unique perspective and business knowledge to the executive team to cultivate new opportunities and markets. The MetiLinx system optimization and application server software speeds the development and deployment of high-end Web-based applications and forms the foundation for future scaling of the application.

The appointment of Culpepper reflects the company's plan to continue to forge strategic channel relationships with Global 2000 companies. Already, MetiLinx counts Ernst & Young, Merrill Lynch, Cisco Systems, and Compaq Computer Corporation among them. Culpepper is charged with enhancing these relationships and forming new channels to deliver a robust product to the marketplace.

"There is no other company or product that I know of that comes close to solving the business problem that the MetiLinx offering addresses," said Culpepper . "I've worked closely with MetiLinx on all three of its product versions, and the opportunity to participate in delivering its awesome potential to the marketplace from inside the company is exciting and challenging."

"MetiLinx is privileged to have a hands-on leader like Bobby, who is knowledgeable about how customers think and has an inside track on what they want from a value perspective," said Carlos Collazo, MetiLinx founder and CEO. "The combination of his perspective as a MetiLinx customer and his success as a business developer make him well-suited to lead our product initiatives into our company's next growth phase."

In Culpepper 's most recent role with Tesoro, he worked with MetiLinx to Web-enable all of Tesoro's applications development efforts. Previously, Culpepper, was vice president of information technology for Phillips 66 Company, A Division of Phillips Petroleum Company. While at Phillips Petroleum his efforts were acknowledged in a Harvard Business case study for his leadership in the implementation of the first executive information system. He is credited with leading a major $300 million technology upgrade for three of Phillips largest manufacturing facilities and for heading two successful SAP implementations, first at Phillips and later at Tesoro. He holds a B.S. degree in accounting from Oklahoma State and an MBA from University of Oklahoma.

About MetiLinx

MetiLinx provides a system-wide solution that enables companies to dramatically improve the performance and efficiency of their N-tier enterprise network systems. MetiLinx has developed breakthrough system optimization and application development technology. By adding MetiLinx software to their existing application environments, companies can increase their multi-tier computing systems' performance, scalability, reliability, security and availability. The company has recently completed its first round of venture capital funding, and has formed strategic relationships with Ernst & Young, Merrill Lynch, Cisco Systems and Compaq Computer Corporation.

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