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Technology visionary Walter Taucher joins CCI executive team
SEATTLE, WA--September 17, 2002--Corporate Computer Inc. (CCI), bringing safe
and invisible networks to businesses of all sizes, announced today that Walter
Taucher, 46, has been promoted to president alongside his father Chairman and
CEO Fred Taucher. The Tauchers’ mission is to accelerate the company’s ability
to anticipate their customers’ technology needs. In that regard, today CCI also
announced that Guardpoint®, a line of virtual private network (VPN) solutions,
has been added to the company’s family of security, anti-virus and Spam
prevention solutions, and is now available.
CCI, founded in 1985 and on Seattle’s short list of consistently successful
computer firms, is also one of the region’s longest running companies.
“A lot has changed since my father founded CCI 17 years ago,” Walter said. “But
our philosophy—to provide premium, personalized service—has stayed consistent.
Networks are extremely vulnerable these days, and we are all about making them
safe and invisible so our customers can focus elsewhere. We know our customers
and can anticipate their needs, which range from developing mini-based systems
to logging phone calls to providing a way to filter viruses out of electronic
mail.”
“Walter’s understanding of technology is second to none,” said Fred Taucher of
his son. “He has always come up with innovative ideas and was instrumental in
anticipating computing paradigms such as the Internet and making them viable
businesses. He is a leader in making modern technology practical.”
"We've been working with CCI since 1993, the dawn of the Internet," said Marty
Lindal, vice president of information systems for Lindal Cedar Homes in Seattle.
"They helped us create a safe network and an enterprise-level email system way
back in 1994, and literally transformed our marketing and sales through a highly
cost-effective web presence. By the end of 1995, approximately twenty five
percent of our homes were sold with the initial visit through our web site. We
continue to be blown away by CCI's ability to foresee future technologies and to
make them safe and practical for our business."
“Walter is a very savvy technologist,” said Michael Andrews, president of Crown
Capital Corporation in Seattle. “He is creative and thoughtful, and he always
looks for the most efficient and economical way to solve a problem. On several
occasions I’ve wanted to go down a specific path, and he’s shown me ways to
achieve the same results with less effort and less expense than I anticipated.”
About the CCI Executive Team:
When other children were playing with toys, Walter grew up learning about
mainframes, watched them evolve into minicomputers, and then PCs. As CCI’s chief
technology officer, he became an expert in networking micro-computers—even
before the advent of the Windows operating system. He is passionate about making
networked technology work.
For 50 years, Fred has been an active participant in the evolution of computing,
using his uncanny knack for understanding which technology trends would make
good businesses. After automating Greystone Concrete Products in 1960 using IBM
punch-card driven accounting machines, Fred formed a separate Division of
Greystone known as Canal Computer Center which provided computer services to
customers of Greystone. In 1968 he purchased a majority interest in Corporate
Management Inc, a service company incorporated in 1963. In 1985 he spun off the
technology arm, and incorporated as Corporate Computer Inc.
CCI’s history has featured a series of events that placed them on the cutting
edge of computing. In 1983, when most PCs were floppy-based, CCI made the first
SCSI-base 20 megabyte hard disk drive kit (designed for the NEC APC 8086 PC and
using a Seagate disk drive). In 1988, the company was hired by Turner
Broadcasting Company as their outsourced provider for network and computer
services for the 1990 Goodwill Games. It was for the Goodwill Games that CCI
developed one of the first truly usable and functional PC networks.
In 1992, CCI was instrumental in creating the first “Internet School District”
in Washington State. With Microsoft’s OS/2 LAN Manager networking software, they
created a school district wide network with internet connectivity. In 1994, CCI
developed early and innovative gateway services which provided local business
with Internet access for their local non-Internet company e-mail systems,
serving as their virtual IT staff, back then an extremely innovative concept.
For the past 15 years CCI has been providing computer service to the City of
Hope and the company was the recipient of their “Spirit of Life Award” in 1966.
A Holocaust and Dauchau Camp survivor, Fred vividly remembers “The Night of
Broken Glass,” when Nazis ransacked and destroyed his father’s Berlin tailor
shop. He is a member of the governing board of directors of the World Federation
of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust, an organization with chapters
throughout the world. Also, he is past treasurer and vice president of the
Washington State Chapter of the National Kidney Foundation.
Founded in 1985, Corporate Computer Inc. (http://www.cci.net
) is on Seattle’s short list of consistently successful computer companies. Spun
off from service bureau Corporate Management Inc., which was founded in 1963,
CCI brings secure data networks to businesses of all sizes. The company is
privately held.