SAN DIEGO, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Gateway (NYSE: GTW) today announced
that it has named Susan B. Parks as senior vice president of Gateway Business.
She will lead Gateway Business as it intensifies its strategic focus on
small and medium business, education and government markets. Parks will drive
the development and marketing of technology solutions and services for
Gateway's business clients.
Prior to joining Gateway, Parks was a senior vice president at Qwest,
which recently merged with U S WEST, where Parks spent five years in a number
of senior positions of increasing importance.
"Susan has the perfect mix of experience and acumen to execute our
beyond-the-box strategy at Gateway Business and to achieve the aggressive
goals we have set for that unit," said Jeff Weitzen, Gateway president and
chief executive officer. "She really understands the needs of business
clients and has been on the cutting edge of the convergence of products and
services in the business space."
At U S WEST, Parks headed the Business and Government Solutions division,
a $2.6 billion business unit with 3,500 employees that provided integrated
voice, data, video and Internet solutions to more than 10,000 business
customers. As vice president of Voice Products for U S WEST, Parks drove the
company to its strongest ever revenues among small business clients. While at
U S WEST, she was instrumental in shaping a number of product development,
marketing, sales and employee initiatives. Parks also held leadership
positions at Mead Corporation and Avery-Dennison.
One of Parks' top priorities at Gateway is to lead the continuing program
to offer beyond-the-box Business services and solutions such as web hosting,
business Internet service and on-line application services. At the same time,
she will leverage the company's existing assets, such as Gateway Country
stores, to drive sales in the small and medium business, government and
education sectors.
"We plan to accelerate our core systems growth as well as beyond-the-box
sales in our business markets," said Weitzen. "The potential of
'beyond-the-box' in the business segment is tremendous."
A native of Rockford, Ill., Parks received her BA in Industrial
Administration in 1979 from Iowa State University. Parks, who starts on
Sept. 5, will report to Weitzen and will be based at Gateway Business
headquarters in Lake Forest, CA.
About Gateway
Gateway (NYSE: GTW), a Fortune 250 company founded in 1985, focuses on
building lifelong relationships with consumers and businesses through complete
technology personalization. Gateway ranked number one in U.S. consumer PC
revenue in 1999(1) and was rated among the top ten best corporate reputations
in America according to a survey conducted in August of 1999 by Harris
Interactive and the Reputation Institute and published in The Wall Street
Journal. In 1999, Gateway was seventh in total return to shareholders among
Fortune 500 companies and tenth in total shareholder returns over the past
five years(2). Gateway employees worldwide provide clients with services and
built-to-order computers that consistently win top awards from leading
industry publications. Gateway had total global revenue of $8.65 billion in
1999 and shipped 4.68 million systems. For more information, visit our Web
site at http://www.gateway.com
(1) According to GartnerGroup/Dataquest US PC Quarterly statistics.
(2) According to Fortune Magazine, April 17, 2000.
SOURCE Gateway
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CONTACT:
John Spelich of Gateway, 858-799-2657
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