Conference 7.286::digital

2347.0. "Adriana Stadecker - New VP of Exec. Operations" by CUPID::BRUNO (Beware the Night Writer!) Wed Jan 27 1993 15:44

Subject: DECnews/Digital Names Adriana Stadecker VP, Executive Operations
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 09:23:38 -0800
 
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                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
                                          Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571
Editorial contact:
 
Jeffry Gibson
(508) 493-6865
     or 
Nikki Richardson
(508) 493-6369
 
 
               DIGITAL NAMES STADECKER VICE PRESIDENT,
                        EXECUTIVE OPERATIONS
 
 
MAYNARD, MA -- January 27, 1993 -- Digital Equipment Corporation 
today announced the appointment of Adriana Stadecker as Vice 
President, Executive Operations, reporting to Robert B. Palmer, 
president and CEO.
 
     Stadecker, 46, has been managing the company's redesign and 
restructuring efforts and working with the senior management team 
to lead the implementation of the new company direction. In this 
new position, she also will be responsible for overseeing the 
process of developing strategic and operational plans for achieving 
the company's short- and long-term financial and business 
objectives.
 
     Commenting on the appointment, Palmer said, "Adriana is playing 
a key role in transforming Digital into a more customer-focused and 
more competitive company. Her work is pivotal to building the 
organizational structure and evolving the strategy for returning 
the company to profitability.  She brings a record of success in 
developing business strategies and managing worldwide business 
plans."
 
     She joined Digital in 1981 and has served in a series of 
business planning and human resource management positions.  In 1987, 
as a group manager in the Printed Wiring Board (PWB) Group, she was 
responsible for the worldwide PWB strategic plan.  Stadecker was 
named group personnel manager, Semiconductor and Interconnect 
Technology, in 1988.  Prior to joining the Office of the President 
in October, 1992, she managed the program office responsible for 
planning and implementing Digital's supply chain change effort and 
was the Worldwide Manufacturing and Logistics human resource 
manager.  Before joining Digital, she held a variety of university 
and government agency research, development, and planning positions 
in the U.S., and prior to that was a practicing architect in 
Argentina.
 
     Stadecker received a Ph.D. in planning from Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1975; and a Master's degree in 
Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 
1969.
 
     Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard, 
Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked 
computer systems, software and services.  Digital pioneered and 
leads the industry in interactive, distributed and multivendor 
computing.  Digital and its business partners deliver the power to 
use the best integrated solutions - from desktop to data center - 
in open information environments.
                                ####
 
CORP/93/970

She seems to have more administrative and less line responsibility.

    

    
    (c) Dow Jones News Service
    
    WHO'S NEWS: GENRAD INC.

    GENRAD Inc. (Concord, Mass.) -- Adriana Stadecker, a Digital Equipment
    Corp. vice president, was named a director of this maker of automated
    test equipment. Ms. Stadecker will succeed Wilson Wilde, who plans to
    step down from the board next month, a company spokesman said.

>>                           -< On the road again... >-

    I wouldn't jump to this conclusion. Being on the board of directors of
    another company doesn't mean you leave the company you work for. Wasn't
    KO on the BOD of Ford?

In fact, more often than not, those who sit on corporate boards of 
directors are active executives or officers of other corporations.  
Conspiracy theorists like to complain about "interlocking directorships" 
where the same set of executives sit as members of each other's boards and 
so one small group of people controls large sections of the economy.

--PSW