SAN DIEGO, June 13 -- Telanetix, Inc., a leading developer of telepresence technology, announced today that James R. Everline, David A. Rane, and Steven J. Davis have accepted nominations to serve on the company's Board of Directors as independent members. The three independent board members have formed the Audit, Nomination, and Compensation Committees of the Board.

"The combined expertise of Mr. Everline, Mr. Rane and Mr. Davis will aid us in establishing oversight committees and developing a strong foundation of corporate governance to support our growth," said Tom Szabo, Chairman and Chief Executive Office of Telanetix. "The three new board members have deep experience in the management of developing companies and will contribute a great deal toward our continued success."

James Everline is currently President of Everline & Co., a mergers and acquisitions management consulting company, a position he has held for the past 15 years. Prior to founding Everline & Co., he was a General Partner of Founders Court Investors, Inc., a private equity investment firm. Mr. Everline has also held senior positions in corporate finance with several major Wall Street investment banks. For the past 25 years, he has served on the Board of Directors of Bandag, Inc. where he was Chairman of the Nominating Committee, Audit Committee, and the Management Continuity and Compensation Committee until the company's sale in 2007.

David Rane is a Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of World Waste Technologies, Inc. Previously, he has served as Executive Vice President of two development stage companies, StoreRunner Network, Inc. and SureBeam Corporation. From 1994 to 2000 he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Callaway Golf Company. A certified public accountant, Mr. Rane spent 14 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in senior management roles at various offices worldwide, including San Diego, CA and Brussels, Belgium.

Steven Davis has practiced business and corporate law since 2005 at his firm, Steven James Davis, A Professional Corporation. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Davis served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Molecular Imaging Corporation, a publicly traded healthcare company. Prior to joining Molecular Imaging, he was legal counsel for Leap Wireless International, Inc. Mr. Davis also worked as an attorney with the Business and Corporate Practice of the law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP in the San Diego, CA office. The nomination and formation of the committees was effective on June 11, 2007.

About Telanetix, Inc.

Telanetix, Inc. has developed a unique technology which creates a fully immersive and interactive environment that integrates audio, video, and data from multiple locations into a single environment regardless of geographic boundaries. The company's Digital Presence (TM) Technology delivers full size, face-to-face images of real-time video, audio, and data in high quality resolution at 30 frames per second which is so profoundly real that users feel as if they are all present in the same room. Using Telanetix developed Codecs and advanced MPEG-4 compression on a Linux platform, the Company has effectively replaced the central videoconferencing bridge of legacy systems with high quality decentralized IP multicasting which provides speed and resolution which is significantly greater than those found in most existing technologies.

[via Earth Times]