ISD Names James Brennan Vice President of Advanced Development and Carl Palmer Vice President of Engineering

David Angel, president and CEO of ISD, hailed the importance of their appointments by saying, "We are delighted with the addition of Mr. Brennan and Mr. Palmer to our executive team at a time when ISD is positioning for its next phase of growth. Their engineering expertise and progressive leadership will continue to reaffirm ISD as an industry leader in embedded solid-state voice solutions."

Brennan, who is known for his work with high density flash memories at Intel and National Semiconductor, brings over 30 years of experience in semiconductor design and development, engineering management and sales and marketing. As vice president of advanced development, he will be responsible for managing the design of products based on new storage technologies.

"I am very impressed with ISD's proprietary multilevel storage approach. I am extremely enthusiastic about leading ISD's advanced development and working with some of the brightest engineers in the industry in the design of new products," said Brennan.

Prior to joining ISD, Brennan spent seven years at Intel Corporation as principal engineer of flash memory design and technology development. He has also worked for semiconductor companies including National Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Devices, Oki Semiconductor and Motorola Semiconductor. Among Brennan's many accomplishments are three patents that address flash memory circuit design. Brennan is a graduate of Duke University and holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston.

Before joining ISD, Carl Palmer was vice president of engineering for SuperFlow Corp. in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Palmer managed SuperFlow departments spanning R&D, product engineering, manufacturing support and customer service. He brings over 21 years of experience from corporations including National Semiconductor, Honeywell, Inc., and Horizon Consulting, Inc.

"I am confident that my experience in engineering, executive leadership and management, will prove valuable to ISD in its current phase of growth and commitment to industry leadership," said Palmer.

Palmer holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and a master's in business administration from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. As vice president of engineering at ISD, Palmer will be responsible for managing the design of new products based on existing technologies.

ChipCorder Technology

Additionally, ChipCorder products eliminate the need for external A/D and D/A circuits, providing a single-chip, solid-state solution that requires no software, unlike other alternatives which are more difficult to integrate.

Furthermore, ChipCorder technology offers high-quality, voice reproduction because the voice signal is stored in its direct form and not encoded or compressed. It is the only single-chip, non-volatile solution available. Recorded messages will be retained even if batteries wear out. ChipCorder devices can be recorded and re-recorded reliably over 100,000 times.

To date, ChipCorder technology has been incorporated into hundreds of products, including cellular phones, pagers, personal voice organizers, telephone answering devices, voice "message pads," games, toys, interactive books, alarms, point-of-sale displays, novelty items and personalized gifts. It is also found in industrial announcement/annunciator systems, instrumentation, and building security systems.

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Note: ChipCorder is a trademark of ISD, Inc.