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Attention Business Editors
Amin Rawji succeeds Nizar J. Somji as CEO of Matrikon(TM)
EDMONTON, Dec. 9 /CNW/ - The board of directors of Matrikon Inc. (TSX:
MTK) is pleased to announce that, as previously announced, Amin Rawji has been
appointed as Matrikon's chief executive officer (CEO) effective immediately.
Amin succeeds Nizar J. Somji, who was named non-executive chairman of the
board. The board has also appointed Hugh Bolton as lead director.
Amin joined Matrikon in 1995 and over the past ten years has led various
groups, including industrial connectivity, services, product development and
sales and marketing. He was promoted to president in July of 2005. Amin also
played key roles in the acquisitions of Matrikon Deutschland, Resolution
Integration Solutions, PIA and Hunter Control.
Nizar founded Matrikon in 1988 as a process control consulting firm and
over the next 17 years built the company into a global solution organization
dedicated to delivering integrated industrial intelligence solutions.
Hugh retired as Chairman and CEO of Coopers & Lybrand Canada (now
PricewaterhouseCoopers) after a 40-year career with Coopers & Lybrand and
predecessor firms. He is an independent director of EPCOR Utilities, Teck
Cominco Limited, Toronto Dominion Bank, Canadian National Railway, and WestJet
Airlines Ltd. Hugh has been a director of Matrikon since 2001 and chairman of
the board since 2002.
About Matrikon Inc.
Matrikon (www.matrikon.com) is a leading provider of integrated
industrial intelligence solutions that enable manufacturing plants to achieve
operational excellence by transforming production data into knowledge to
predict and prevent problems and optimize operations. Matrikon's customers
achieve agile operations through the combination of external market and plant
data to make informed, intelligent decisions in real-time.
Matrikon(TM) is a trademark of Matrikon Inc.
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/For further information: Nicole Sayler, Matrikon Inc., Phone:
(780) 945-4010, nicole.sayler@matrikon.com;
To request a free copy of this organization's annual report, please go to
http://www.newswire.ca and click on Tools for Investors./
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