Former Wind River Product Strategist to Boost OK Product Momentum
Chicago and Sydney, Australia, August 28, 2007 — Open Kernel Labs (OK), a global provider of operating systems and virtualization technology for embedded systems, today named Robert C. McCammon Vice President of Product Management. A product development professional, with deep embedded systems industry experience, McCammon will be responsible for OK product definition; defining and creating market opportunities, and the development of industry strategies.
In his most recent position as Director of Advanced Technology Planning at Wind River Systems (NASDAQ:WIND), McCammon was responsible for establishing plans and priorities for advanced technology development to address future product requirements. Prior to this assignment at Wind River, he managed both industry marketing and product management teams responsible for identifying market segment opportunities; developing market segment strategies, and delivering successful development tool and operating system products. This included product management responsibility for Wind River's VxWorks and Development Tools product lines. Rob also strengthened relationships with industry partners who offered complementary product lines.
“Robert McCammon's multi-faceted strategic product management experience will be a key competitive factor in our growing global enterprise,” said Steve Subar, CEO and Co-Founder of OK. “His technical acumen and deep embedded systems industry intelligence are essential attributes that will help us to rapidly and effectively extend our sales and marketing channels to support a wealth of new mobile device innovations.”
McCammon's product management and marketing experience also has included positions at Integrated Systems, Software Development Systems, and Mentor Graphics/Microtec Research where he was responsible for sales and partner relationship development. He began his career in engineering and technical sales roles at Hughes Electronics and the Hewlett-Packard Company.
Open Kernel Labs
Open Kernel Labs' (OK) technology leadership in embedded operating systems and virtualization technology enables the development of reliable, trustworthy and affordable devices. Backed by the largest, independent team of microkernel developers, OK's open-source microkernel operating system, OKL4, offers the highest proven performance combined with strong protection and Security features in order to provide developers with a robust, open-source platform for building secure, differentiated embedded applications. For more information on OK and its products visit www.ok-labs.com. OK is a spin-out from NICTA, Australia's pre-eminent Center of Excellence for information and communications technology (ICT).
