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Aonix > News and Events > Press Releases > March 29, 2004 >

Aonix Selects Ben Goodwin as COO, and VP Sales North America

Long-term Aonix leader returns to strengthen company’s US presence

San Francisco, USA, March 29, 2004

Aonix®, an independent global company delivering complete solutions for safety- and mission-critical applications, appointed Ben Goodwin as chief operations officer and vice-president of sales for North America and the Pacific Rim. Goodwin is directly tasked with strengthening Aonix’s presence in the United States.

Goodwin brings Aonix an intimate knowledge of the mission- and safety-critical markets with over 25 years in the embedded software development market. Goodwin’s career began in the Air Force as a software developer and systems analyst for a complex air defense system and then moved on to NORAD Headquarters where he was responsible for the upgrade of a data communications system. Goodwin rounded out his Air Force career as a test director for live testing of Air Force command and control systems.

Goodwin launched his executive career with SofTech where he was part of the management team which grew the firm from $2M to $50M in five years and led SofTech into a successful IPO in 1981. While there, SofTech won the first large-scale development contract for the development of Ada language compilers. Goodwin completed his career with SofTech as CEO of SofTech Microsystems. As CEO, he then joined Telesoft where he took the company from $6M to $50M, establishing it as a leading supplier of embedded software development tools. Goodwin merged TeleSoft, a developer of Ada and UIMS products, with Alsys, the company who became Aonix in 1996. Within Aonix, Goodwin occupied a variety of executive positions including chief of operations, chief executive officer and president. It was during Goodwin’s tenure, that Aonix began investing in JavaTM solutions, an initiative that led to Aonix’s purchase of the PERC VM in Q3 2003. To return to Aonix, Goodwin left FinanCenter where he served as vice president, responsible for sales, marketing, customer support, and professional services.

“We are very pleased to welcome Ben back into the Aonix leadership team,” said Nicolas Hadjidakis, CEO and President of Aonix. “North America is an important market for Aonix. With Ben’s strong relationships and extensive experience in the mission- and safety-critical space, we look forward to extending our US position not only in their military and aerospace industries, but also in transportation, avionics, telecom, industrial control where similarly complex, critical applications exist.”

About Aonix

Aonix is a global independent provider of Software Engineering Development Environments with more than 20 years of experience. Our products cover Analysis and Design (Ameos™, Software through Pictures® and Architecture Component Development™), GUI Design (TeleUSE®) and implementation in Ada (ObjectAda®, AdaWorld®), Java™ platform support for Embedded Systems (PERC®,JRAVEN™, JRTK™), high-performance and certifiable Real-Time kernels (RAVEN™, SmartKernel™) and Software-Testing. As a pioneer in current market trends such as Model Driven Architecture® (MDA), Real-Time Java™ and in the development of safety-critical applications Aonix addresses the needs of mission- and safety-critical applications for various industries including Avionics, Space, Defense, Transportation, Telecoms, Automotive, and Industry in general. Professional training, consulting and local technical support guarantees our customers the successful development and deployment of their applications. Headquartered in San Diego, CA and Paris, France, Aonix operates sales offices throughout North America and Europe in addition to a network of international distributors. For more information, visit www.aonix.com.

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