Message-ID: <5950885.1075851519822.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:19:48 -0800 (PST) From: midday29@alerts.equityalert.com To: alewis@ect.enron.com Subject: Your News Alert for TXN Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: "Equity Alert Center" @ENRON X-To: Andrew Lewis X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ALEWIS (Non-Privileged)\Deleted Items X-Origin: LEWIS-A X-FileName: ALEWIS (Non-Privileged).pst =09[IMAGE]=09 =09[IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09 [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Upgrades [IMAGE] DownGrades= [IMAGE] Coverage Initiated [IMAGE] Coverage Reiterated [IMAGE] Stock Sp= lits [IMAGE] Buybacks [IMAGE] Dividends [IMAGE] Pos Pre-Announce [IMAGE= ] Neg Pre-Announce [IMAGE] Pos Surprises [IMAGE] Neg Surprises [IMAGE] E= arnings Revisions [IMAGE] IPO - Lockup Periods [IMAGE] IPO - Latest Prici= ng [IMAGE] IPO - Quite Periods [IMAGE] IPO - Postponements [IMAGE] IPO -= Withdrawals [IMAGE] IPO - Latest Filings [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] = [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Unsubscribe [IMAGE] Update my Membership / Profile [IM= AGE] Forgot Username / Password [IMAGE] Add / Edit Alerts [IMAGE] View = My Alerts [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] = [IMAGE] [IMAGE] =09 As requested, your News Alert for TXN follows from Eq= uityAlert.com. Vortex Partners Appoints Semiconductor and Wireless Indu= stry Leader, John Scarisbrick as Venture Partner DALLAS, Oct 29, 2001 /PR= Newswire via COMTEX/ -- Vortex Partners, an early stage Venture Capital fir= m that focuses on telecom and technology investing, today announced John Sc= arisbrick has joined the firm as a Venture Partner. Most recently, Mr. Scar= isbrick was Senior Vice President at Texas Instruments, responsible for TI'= s Application Specific Processor (ASP) business which included the Company'= s Digital Signal Processor (DSP), Wireless, Application Specific Integrated= Circuit (ASIC), Scalable Processor ARChitecture (SPARC), and Broadband bus= inesses worldwide from 1996 to 2000. Under Mr. Scarisbrick's leadership, TI= grew the ASP business from $2.5 billion to $5.2 billion in annual revenues= . Earlier in his career, Mr. Scarisbrick also led the team that created TI'= s current leading business, the DSP, growing it to breakeven, then profitab= ility and then the first $100M in annual revenues. Prior to running the ASP= business, Mr. Scarisbrick was President of Texas Instruments Europe. Mr. S= carisbrick currently serves on the Boards of ARM Holdings in Cambridge, Eng= land, the leading global microprocessor architecture Intellectual Property = Company. "While at TI, John managed our DSP-based businesses that focused= on many of the same markets as our TI Ventures program, said Madison Pedig= o, Manager, TI Ventures. John made significant contributions to TI's ventur= e capital program, and we look forward to working with him and the other Vo= rtex Partners as we continue to focus on exciting new markets for TI DSPs."= "We are extremely excited to bring on John Scarisbrick as our first Vent= ure Partner; John combines superb and proven skills of leadership and manag= ement with the insight to identify and market disruptive technologies like = the DSP," said Victor Liu, General Partner of Vortex. "We are certain that = John will add immediate value to our firm, to our portfolio companies and t= o the Venture Industry in general." About Vortex Partners, LP Vortex Pa= rtners is an early stage Venture Capital firm based in Dallas, Texas. Vorte= x is currently investing from their Vortex Corporate Development Fund, a $5= 0M fund that focuses on being the first institutional capital on startup op= portunities that build upon disruptive technologies. For more information= , call (214) 849-9806 or visit www.vortexpartners.com . MAKE YOUR OPINION= COUNT - Click Here http://tbutton.prnewswire.com/prn/11690= X66819926 SOURCE Vortex Partners, LP CONTACT: Chris O'Neill of = Vortex Partners, LP, +1-214-849-9817, or coneill@vortexpa= rtners.com URL: http://www.vortexpartners.com http://www.prn= ewswire.com Copyright (C) 2001 PR Newswire. All rights reserved. -0- K= EYWORD: Texas INDUSTRY KEYWORD: CPR TLS SUBJECT = CODE: PER [IMAGE] ***IMPORTANT NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER REGARDING TH= IS COURTESY EMAIL*** At your request, as a subscriber to our service, thi= s email alert is being sent to you as a courtesy and is for information pur= poses only. We are a financial news re-distributor. We are not an investmen= t advisory and do not purport to tell or suggest which companies you should= monitor or which securities you should purchase or sell. 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