Marlboro, Mass.--July 1, 2002--Egenera Inc., the leader in next-generation data center infrastructure, announced today that its founder, chairman and chief technology officer, Vern Brownell, has received the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award for New England in the Emerging Entrepreneur category. The Entrepreneur Of The Year Award honors individuals whose ingenuity, hard work and innovation have created successful and growing business ventures. As a regional recipient, Brownell is now a candidate for Ernst & Young's National Entrepreneur Of The Year Award, to be announced this fall.
"Driven by a powerful idea, Vern built Egenera to solve a complex, business-critical challenge for the world's most demanding and sophisticated users of technology," said Debbie Miller, president and CEO, Egenera. "The result is a disruptive, breakthrough platform that delivers quantifiable value to our growing roster of blue-chip customers. We congratulate Vern on this significant and well-deserved recognition of his vision and entrepreneurial spirit."
The former chief technology officer at Goldman Sachs, Brownell founded Egenera in March 2000 based on the pain points he experienced-and opportunities he recognized-managing one of the world's largest data centers. Despite preferred relationships with leading server vendors, Brownell was unable to source a processing solution that would allow Goldman to simultaneously optimize application availability, improve business agility and lower costs. Convinced that a totally new architecture was required, he resigned his executive post and formed Egenera.
Before joining Goldman, Brownell held a series of engineering management positions including roles at Stratus Computer and Digital Equipment. His background as both a developer and a user of technology gave Egenera the ideal perspective for building the next generation of computing infrastructure.
Additional information about the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award Program is available at http://www.ey.com/us/eoy.
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Egenera delivers a next-generation approach to data center computing by integrating hardware, software, networking and services into simple, yet powerful machines. The Company helps large enterprises and service providers reduce application time-to-market, keep applications online, improve data center management and lower total cost of ownership. Privately held, Egenera has assembled a senior management team and engineering staff with an average 20-plus years' experience working with the industry's foremost providers and users of enterprise-class hardware and software systems. This collective technical, customer and business experience uniquely positions the Company to reinvent data center computing. Relationships with EMC, Intel, Oracle, Red Hat and Turbolinux, among others, further strengthen the Egenera value proposition. For details, visit www.egenera.com, send email to info@egenera.com or call 508-858-2600.
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