ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 13 — Performance Technologies (Nasdaq: PTIX), a leading developer of systems, platforms, components and software, today announced that effective immediately John J. Peters is promoted to senior vice president of platform engineering and chief technical officer, and John J. Grana is promoted to senior vice president of systems engineering.
Mr. Peters and Mr. Grana will continue to co-manage the engineering organization of Performance Technologies to develop products, platforms and systems to drive the company’s advanced managed platform strategy. Emphasis will be placed on common architectures, value-add software and building partnerships with customers. In his new role of senior vice president of platform engineering and CTO, Mr. Peters will lead the company’s architecture and technology direction and ensure consistent methodologies throughout the platform product line. Over the years, Mr. Peters has developed, and made contributions to several embedded standards which are used within the embedded computing industry today, including VME64 and PICMG 2.16. In his new role of senior vice president of systems engineering, Mr. Grana will lead development and engineering toward higher-valued platform and system solutions. Since joining the company, Mr. Grana has also been active in developing standards, and has played a significant role at Performance Technologies in the development and delivery of integrated platform and software systems.
“As we scale Performance Technologies to execute on our aggressive profitable growth strategy, leveraging and advancing our engineering assets becomes critical in achieving our goals,” said Michael Skarzynski, president and chief executive officer of Performance Technologies. “John Peters and John Grana have contributed significantly to the company during the last nineteen years, and we will expect even greater contributions from them as we ramp up to realize our growth plans.”
Since joining Performance Technologies in 1986, Mr. Peters has served in several engineering capacities, including vice president of hardware engineering since 1994. Prior, he served as technical director of the hardware products business unit. Also joining in 1986, Mr. Grana has served as vice president of software engineering since 1994 and technical director of the workstation products business unit between 1986 and 1994, and general manager of the controller products group between 1995 and 2000.
About Performance Technologies
Performance Technologies (Nasdaq: PTIX) develops the systems, platforms, components and software solutions for the world’s evolving communications infrastructure. Our broad customer base includes global technology companies in the communications, defense and homeland security, and commercial markets. Serving the industry for nearly 25 years, our complete line of embedded and system-level products enables equipment manufacturers and service providers to offer highly available and fully managed systems with time-to-market, performance and cost advantages.
Performance Technologies is headquartered in Rochester, New York. Additional engineering facilities are located in San Diego and San Luis Obispo, California; Norwood, Massachusetts and Ottawa, Ontario (Canada). For more information, visit www.pt.com or contact [email protected].
