LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- In an interview with IPOdesktop.com, AmeriChip International's (OTCBB:ACII) CEO Marc Walther said, "AmeriChip welcomes John Rehfeld as Advisory Director.
"We look forward to tapping into his extensive management, business and investment expertise. Mr. Rehfeld is now working closely with our management team to help AmeriChip prepare for explosive growth and to help maximize shareholder value," Marc Walther continued.
"Mr. Rehfeld currently is CEO coach for eight emerging growth companies, and currently serves on five company boards, including three public companies, and is an acknowledged expert on Board of Directors and industry compliance. For example, he is Chairman of the Orange County (California) Forum for Corporate Directors, a leading professional association for helping build excellence in corporate governance.
"He is also Adjunct Professor of Marketing, Executive MBA Program, Pepperdine University, Silicon Valley and Southern California, where he has been named outstanding Adjunct Professor in the Department."
"Mr. Rehfeld's sterling, multi-year track record includes the following:
* Designed and launched first laptop computer for Toshiba, creating the market segment, growing sales from zero to $400M in three years * Named one of the top 25 computer industry executives by Computer Resellers News * Effected major changes and grew Seiko Instruments America from $89M to $200M in 4 years. Then served as an outside Board of Director Member for 12 additional years * Re-engineered Etak, a business unit of News Corp, and negotiated sale of company to Sony * Downsized Spruce Technologies and sold company to Apple Computer * Developed strategic customer-vendor relationships with Sanyo, Hitachi, Sony Japan, Sony Europe, Michelin, Robert Bosch, ASK (Norway) and Apple Corp. resulting in over $600M of transactions * As an active outside Board Member, helped lead Wonderware, Inc. through a successful IPO, founder CEO transition and cash sale at $400M (four+ times revenue) * Appointed as a Federal Trade Commission Monitor to oversee sale of MSC software business unit to EDS * As an active outside board member and chairman of the Compensation committee helped Candle Corp. (a $400M private SW company) sell to IBM and worked on all the transaction and transition compensation for senior management.
"Mr. Rehfeld is also an accomplished business author, whose works include 'Alchemy of a Leader: Combining Western and Japanese Management Skills to Transform Your Company,' published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (New York, 1994.)
"In addition, Mr. Rehfeld's professional career has been covered in 'The Wall Street Journal,' 'Computer Resellers News -- Top 25 Computer Executives, 1988,' 'The San Diego Tribune,' and 'Communique,' an industry magazine in which his tenure at Seiko Instruments America was the cover feature.
"As a former member of the Young President's Organization (YPO), Rehfeld has lectured at YPO-sponsored universities and has been an invited speaker at venues throughout the world -- the U.S., Europe, Australia, Japan, and China.
"He has been a panelist at the Aspen Institute, a guest lecturer at Northwestern University, Illinois, and USC and UCI, and currently, is Adjunct Professor of Marketing Management at the Pepperdine University MBA program. He has been interviewed by ABC Business News (Los Angeles) and the Silicon Valley Business Report (San Francisco)," concluded Walther.
Mr. Rehfeld began his career in systems engineering at IBM, and subsequently earned a Harvard M.B.A. http://www.johnrehfeld.com/
ACII Analyst report link
http://www.gaskinsco.com/linkto-acii-nov18.shtml
Analyst comments on SEC filing for quarter ended August 31, 2007
http://gaskinsco.com/acii-august10q.htm
About AmeriChip International
http://www.americhiplacc.com/sections/
ACII enables lower cost, higher quality clean manufacturing by using environmentally-friendly, patented technologies, trade secrets and other intellectual property.
The Company's mission is to dominate the worldwide dry machining market, particularly the multi-billion dollar metal turning segment for machining steel parts such as axle & drive shafts, connecting rods, axle tubes & hubs, the multi-billion dollar oil pipe coupling and threading segment and the United States and Canadian defense departments
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