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Archive 2002
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
CONTACT: Sonia Ross (403) 295-4532 |
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada, January 29, 2002) - NovAtel Inc. (Nasdaq: NGPS) is very pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Charles R. Trimble to the Company's Board of Directors.
Mr. Trimble was one of the founders of and served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Trimble Navigation Limited from 1981 to 1998. He strategically guided Trimble to its dominant role in the GPS information technology market. Prior to founding Trimble, Mr. Trimble was Manager of Integrated Circuit Research and Development at Hewlett Packard's Santa Clara division. He holds four patents in signal processing and several in GPS, and is currently serving as the Chairman of the United States GPS Industry Council (USGIC). Mr. Trimble received his B.S. degree in Engineering (Physics) with honors in 1963 and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1964 from the California Institute of Technology.
"Charlie has led the GPS industry since its very inception," said Jim Close, the Company's Chairman of the Board. "We are excited to have him involved with NovAtel."
"As the GPS industry transforms itself into an international positioning and information utility, NovAtel is helping to develop the core technology for these international initiatives," said Mr. Trimble. "These are tremendous times for our industry and I am pleased to have the opportunity to continue to influence its direction."
NovAtel Inc. is the principal supplier of reference receivers to WAAS ground networks around the world, and designs, markets and supports a broad range of products that determine precise geographic locations using the Global Positioning System (GPS). NovAtel's GPS products are used principally for applications in precision markets such as the surveying, geographic information systems, aviation, marine, mining and machine control, agriculture and precise timing markets. For further information please visit our website at www.novatel.com.
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