CMP's CommunicationsWeek Announces Winners of Its Annual Visionary AwardsCisco's Chambers, Oracle's Ellison, Sprint's Esrey Among Ten Recognized for Their ContributionsPRNewswire Mitch Irsfeld, Editor-in-Chief, and Saroja Girishankar, Executive Industry Editor, CMP's CommunicationsWeek, will announce the winners of the publication's annual Visionary Awards during a ComNet '97 keynote ceremony to be held at 4:15 this afternoon at the Renaissance Hotel. The prestigious awards honor ten visionaries for their contributions to the advancement of digital communications and its application to the goals of American business during the past year. "Vision is critical to the industry," said Mike Azzara, Publisher. "And these awards focus attention on, and bring clarity to, the contribution these visionaries have made and, more important, how their visions are changing the industry and the world." The 1997 CommunicationsWeek Visionary Award winners -- profiled both in the February 3 issue of CommunicationsWeek and online on CommunicationsWeek Interactive at http://www.commweek.com/ -- are: John T. Andrews, President, CSX Technology Inc.; D. James Bidzos, President and CEO, RSA Data Security Inc.; John T. Chambers, President and CEO, Cisco Systems Inc.; Christos M. Cotsakos, President and CEO, E*Trade Group Inc.; Lawrence J. Ellison, Chairman and CEO, Oracle Corp.; William J. Esrey, Chairman and CEO, Sprint Corp.; William Friel, CIO and Sr. Vice President, Prudential Insurance Co.; Christina C. Jones, President and Founder, pcOrder.com; Phyllis J. Michaelides, Program Manager, Manufacturing, Allied Signal Inc.; and Denis J. O'Leary, CIO and Sr. Vice President, Chase Manhattan Bank. Nominees for CommunicationsWeek's Visionary Awards were assessed by a panel of independent experts. CommunicationsWeek editorial staff determined the list of winners based on the panel's recommendations. Nominations for this year's awards began in October. CommunicationsWeek, The Networking Newspaper, is the leading newspaper serving the information needs of Network IT Management. The newspaper delivers news and analysis that helps Network IT Management translate evolving advances in communications and computing technology directly into business advantage. In addition, the newspaper features Web Commerce, a biweekly section that provides in-depth features and analysis of electronic commerce products, technologies and case studies. Telepath, the Telecommunications Newsmagazine and a monthly supplement to CommunicationsWeek, is directed to the innovators behind converging networks. CMP Media Inc., now in its 26th year of uninterrupted growth, is the only provider of publishing, marketing and information services to reach the entire spectrum of the high-technology market -- the builders, sellers and users of technology. With sales of $418 million in 1996, CMP marked a quarter century of success with an average annual growth of 20 percent. All of CMP's publications and a series of innovative news and interactive services are available on the World Wide Web through CMP's TechWeb®, http://www.techweb.com/, the industry's first free daily technology news and interactive services super site. CMP Media is also the creator of NetGuide Live (http://www.netguide.com/), the first comprehensive daily listing of live events on the Internet and commercial online services, and First-TV (http://www.first-tv.com/), the Internet's first 24-hour TV/video network. -0- 2/04/97 SOURCE: CMP Media Inc. CONTACT: CMP Corporate Communications. Steve Rubel, 516-562-7434 or |