TailWind Announces the Appointment of Ralph Eschenbach to Technical Advisory Board

TailWind today announced the appointment of Ralph Eschenbach to their Technical Advisory Board. As Chief Technology Officer for Trimble Navigation Ltd, Ralph pioneered GPS technology and has steered Trimble to the leadership position in their market. Ralph will help guide the technical development of Tailwind product development.

Foster City, Calif. (PRWEB) July 30, 2003 -- TailWind today announced the appointment of Ralph Eschenbach to their Technical Advisory Board. As Chief Technology Officer for Trimble Navigation Ltd, Ralph pioneered GPS technology and has steered Trimble to the leadership position in their market. Ralph will help guide the technical development of Tailwind product development.

"We're very proud to have been able to attract a veteran of Ralph's caliber to our team," said David Koehn, president and CEO of TailWind. "Ralph is a proven winner who has repeatedly lead teams to success in commercial markets. We are looking forward to Ralph's contributions as we forge innovative software products that serve the mobile workforce."

Since 1994, Ralph Eschenbach has served as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Trimble Navigation Ltd. He joined Trimble in 1983 as Vice President of Engineering. Before joining Trimble he was Department Manager at Hewlett Packard Labs, where he was responsible for research in communication protocols and systems. While at HP, Ralph developed the first working GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver which demonstrated the potential for addressing a low-cost market for a positioning sensor.

Mr. Eschenbach has authored over thirty papers on GPS receiver's design and testing. He has been the recipient over a dozen patents. In 1987, he won the Institute of Navigation's "Better Mousetrap Award" for innovation in GPS receiver design. In 1991, he won Discover Magazine's award for "Innovation in Computers and Technology". Mr. Eschenbach works part time as a Venture Partner for Osprey Ventures, a mid-sized venture capital firm located in Palo Alto, CA. In this capacity, he focuses on the wireless, semiconductor, and internet sectors. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Community Education Center, a non-profit multicultural preschool serving low-income children in the Redwood City, CA.

About TailWind

Tailwind Powers the Mobile Workforce (tm)

TailWind Inc. provides software that manages the secure distribution and monitoring of vital, media-rich, web-enabled content for mobile workers. TailWind's product, FieldSpace (tm) is available as laptop solution that is easy to use, reliable, and provide timely business-critical information to mobile workers. At its heart is a browser-based managed delivery software solution for relaying, storing and tracking digital documentation for remote workers who are occasionally connected to the Internet or when corporate server-based networks are unreliable or slow. Tailwind improves the productivity of mobile workers in enterprise organizations while reducing the cost and complexity of delivering, managing, and tracking digital information.

For more information contact:
Barry Fishman
barry@tailwindinc.com
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