Asa W. Lanum

Asa W. Lanum joined FORTEL Inc. (formerly Zitel) as President and CEO in
July 1999. Mr. Lanum has over 30 years of experience as an Executive and
Manager in the computer industry in the United States and Europe, and is
the author of more than 30 papers and books. Mr. Lanum was Managing
Principal of the CTO Group, a consulting organization providing
strategic marketing, product and technology advice to end users and
systems vendors in the distributed, open systems, client server
marketplace. Prior to the CTO Group, he was Senior Vice President,
Advanced Systems and Chief Technology Officer for OpenVision
Technologies, a premier supplier of integrated systems and network
management software. Before joining OpenVision, Mr. Lanum was a co-
founder and CEO of Enterprise Technology, Inc., a developer of Intel-
based closely-coupled distributed multiprocessor Unix server clusters.
He has held a number of executive positions within the Industry at ASK
Ingres, Sun Microsystems, ICL, Pansophic Systems and Amdahl. Mr. Lanum
was recognized for innovation in management by the National Engineering
Development Organization of England. He holds a BA in Economics and
Political Science from State University of New York.