FedEx Executive Joins KonaWare Team

Jeff Amerine provides expertise for KonaWare’s transportation and logistics offerings

Redwood City, CA (PRWEB) July 22, 2004 -- KonaWare Inc., a leading provider of mobile application software for transportation and logistics, has named Jeff Amerine to its Advisory Board and will retain him as a full time Executive Consultant. Mr. Amerine will advise the company on information technology requirements for the transportation and logistics industry.

Most recently Mr. Amerine was Managing Director of Information Technology for FedEx Freight Systems were he set the company wide communications technology strategy and was responsible for $25 million in annual capital and expense operating budget. In addition, Mr. Amerine played a central role in wireless operations technology, call center deployment, and sales technology strategies that helped maintain the company’s competitive advantage. Prior to FedEx Freight Systems, Mr. Amerine held the position of Vice President Communications Systems at American Freightways, and Vice President, Strategic Consulting for Danet Inc., a Deutsche Telekom and SAIC company.

Mr. Amerine, has been a featured speaker on “Managing Wireless Proliferation” at various events such as “The Wireless Enterprise Forum” and “Internet World”. Mr. Amerine has been interviewed by a variety of publications such as “ComputerWorld”, “NetworkWorld”, “Newsweek – Japan”, and “CIO Insight”.

“KonaWare’s mobile software applications, coupled with their comprehensive underlying technology, can provide tremendous visibility into the productivity of drivers, terminal operations, and customer pickup/delivery, and enable management to fine tune operational processes for better performance,” say’s Amerine. “KonaWare’s solution has shown significant return on investment for firms in the transportation space by increasing margins, reducing communications costs, and lending greater efficiency in the areas of dock handling, driver productivity and administration—I am excited to be part of this venture.”

About KonaWare Inc.
KonaWare provides a leading mobile application platform for developing and extending mission-critical enterprise applications to a mobile workforce. The KonaWare Mobility Platform utilizes a standards-based architecture that leverages existing IT infrastructure to maximize return-on-investment. With KonaWare, developers can quickly develop and deploy fully transactional enterprise applications (e.g., field service, logistics, supply chain, and custom applications) to the mobile workforce for a full range of devices (from laptops to PDAs to smart phones) with minimal coding and reintegration. KonaWare is privately held and headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information visit the company website at www.konaware.com

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