Quantum3D Co-Founder and President Ross Q. Smith to Receive 2007 Frost & Sullivan Lifetime Achievement Award
SAN JOSE, CA-June 11, 2007- Quantum3D®, Inc., a leading provider of Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS), open-architecture, realtime visual computing solutions, today announced that Ross Q. Smith, co-founder and president of Quantum3D, will receive a 2007 Frost & Sullivan Lifetime Achievement Award. These awards are bestowed each year upon individuals whose careers are characterized by legacy-rich accomplishments and positive influence. The award itself acknowledges each recipient's vision, style of management and dedication to making a difference to his or her industry, all of which have been instrumental in spurring excellence in the sales and/or marketing function within the recipients' organizations.
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"Mr. Smith is widely considÂered a pioneer of PC-based realtime visual computing and has been the driving force behind Quantum3D's leadership role in transforming the visual simulation and training and embedded visual computing markets from proprietary to open architecture and COTS," said Frost & Sullivan director of Production Events Division Caryn Brown. Mr. Smith is responsible for the strategic vision behind multiple watershed realtime visual computing products and underlying technologies-including parallel-rendering PC-based Image Generators such as Obsidian, Mercury, AAlchemy and Independence, and the Sentiris, Thermite and Expedition embedded visual computing products.
The 2007 Lifetime Achievement Awards will be announced at the 3rd Annual Growth Innovation and Leadership 2007: A Frost & Sullivan Executive Congress on Corporate Growth to be held September 16-18, 2007, at the Hyatt Regency Monterey.
Past award recipients include Peter C. Weedfald, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Circuit City; Donald R. Friedman, executive vice president and chief marketing officer, CA, Inc.; Fredrik A. Winterlind, senior vice president, CH2M HILL; Deborah L. Nelson, senior vice president of Marketing and Alliances, Technology Solutions Group, HP; Rick Dow, chief marketing officer, Midas, Inc.; John E. Carrington, general manager of Global Marketing and chief marketing officer, GE Plastics; Christopher B. Curtis, president, Schneider Electric, USA.
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About Quantum3D
Quantum3D is the leading developer and manufacturer of Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS), open-architecture realtime visual computing solutions for the Visual and Sensor Simulation and Training, Embedded Visual Computing and Embedded/Deployable Training markets. Quantum3D combines the most advanced merchant server, desktop and mobile PC and handheld technologies with unique, advanced, value-added hardware and software technologies to deliver the highest-value COTS Image Generation solutions, software and synthetic environment content for VSST applications and unique Tactical Visual Computing Systems, Graphics Subsystems, Development Software and integrated training platforms for the avionics, vetronics, C4ISR and E/DT applications. Quantum3D is a privately held company headquartered in San Jose, California, with development centers located in Phoenix, AZ, Huntsville, AL, and Orlando, FL and with sales and logistics in Europe via Quantum3D, Ltd., located in Reading, UK. For more information about Quantum3D real-time visual computing solutions, please visit www.quantum3d.com.
