3rd Jul 2007 08:00
3 July 2007 GEONG International Limited ("GEONG" or "the Company") Board Appointment
GEONG International Limited (AIM: GNG) the AIM listed, Beijing based, provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software and solutions, today announce that Chief Technology Officer, Mr Minren Guan, has been appointed to the Board of Directors, with effect from 3 July 2007.
Mr Minren Guan has been Chief Technology Officer of GEONG since joining the Company in September 2000. Prior to this he served as the technical support leader of the Banking & Financial Services Institute team at IBM China from 1995 to 2000, which included a period working at IBM's WebSphere Research and Development Laboratory.
In 1996/7 Minren Guan participated in the Association of Computing Machinery's International Collegiate Programming Competition, an international computer programming competition sponsored by IBM, and came 2nd in the Asia regional. He received his Masters degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China.
Commenting on Mr. Minren Guan's appointment to the Board, GEONG's Chairman Henry Tse said: "I am delighted to welcome Mr. Minren Guan to the Board. His appointment is well deserved and reflects the contribution he has made to the development and growth of GEONG over the last seven years.
Minren Guan's extensive technical knowledge will also provide added strength to the Board as we continue to implement GEONG's plans for growth. This appointment also demonstrates our commitment to provide talented employees with the opportunity to progress within the Company."
There are no further details that are required to be disclosed pursuant to paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules for Companies.
- ENDS- Enquiries:Henry Tse, Chairman www.geong.com Weidong Wang, CEO
GEONG International Limited Tel: +86 10 877 30066 Paul Dulieu / Emma Kane / Tom Newman Redleaf Communications Ltd Tel: +44 (0)20 7822 0200 John Depesquale / Parimal Kumar Seymour Pierce Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 8000
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About GEONGInternational Limited
* GEONG is registered in Jersey and headquartered in Beijing. Its shares were admitted to AIM in June 2006 and trade under the ticker GNG.L * The Company has provided content management software and solutions since its establishment in September 2000 and has earned a reputation as a local technology leader in the Chinese Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market, especially in the financial services industry. * ECM software is an internet based suite of products that enables companies to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver content, documents and data across thousands of users, processes and locations. * The Company has developed two proprietary product ranges: the PortalAgeTM suite designed for large enterprise customers and SmartBoxTM designed to capture the SME market's requirement for collaboration software. * PortalAgeTM clients include: Lenovo, Bank of Communications, China Construction Bank, FAW Volkswagen, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, Shanghai General Motors and Air China. * In March 2007, the Company established a Canadian representative office in order to commence the international promotion of SmartBoxTM. * In 2006, GEONG was recognised for the second successive year in the Deloitte "Technology Fast 50 China 2006" and the "Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2006", which recognises the fastest growing technology companies in China and in Asia Pacific respectively.
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