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Amiga Technologies Photo Album

The Escom year saw the Amiga market become more European in focus as theownership moved to Germany. During this period you would have seen someof the following people
 
Jonathon Anderson Jonathon Anderson
Joint managing director of Amiga Technologies UK. Resigned, allegedly over an incident with Amiga Power magazine.
Giles, not the one from Buffy the Vampire Slayer Giles Bourdin
Escom/Amiga Technologies Press relations officer. Currently Vice-President of International Business Development at NetBooster.
Dr. Hartmutt Esslinger Dr. Hartmutt Esslinger
Founder and President of Frogdesign, developing corporate strategy.Created the post-Commodore look of the Amiga.
Jeff Frank Jeff Frank
Commodore director of PC product who was retained to provide technicalassistance manufacturing the Amiga.
Don Gilbreath Don Gilbreath
Director of product and Market Development at Commodore Internationalfrom 1980 to 1992. He became Chief Technical Officer at VisCorp, workingalongside Amiga Technologies on the Amiga ED.
Ed Goffman Ed Goffman
Escom lawyer and general council to Commodore. Worked with Amiga Technologiesto relaunch the Amiga and licence the technology. Prevented Quikpak fromselling their range of Amigas during 1998.
Dr. Peter Kittel Dr. Peter Kittel
Worked for Commodore Germany in the engineering department. Hired byAmiga Technologies as their documentation writer and web services manager.He is still an active Amiga user.
Manfred Schmitt Manfred Schmitt
Founder of Escom. He was replaced during 1996 at the beginning of theirfinancial troubles.
John Smith, used to a beer brand and Labour leader John Smith
Joint managing director of Amiga Technologies UK.
Petro Ty... Ty... How do you spell his name? Petro Taras Tyschtschenko
Born in 1943. Petro was first regarded with some suspicion when hefirst took over at Amiga Technologies. Since then he has managed to keepthe platform alive, even during the Escom liquidation. He is more of a salesman than technology-orienated but supports the Amiga without th epersonal politics that have plagued other Amiga employees. Petro retired in 2001.
Gwynne Thomas Gwynne Thomas
Materials director at Amiga Technologies
Bernard Van Tienen Bernard Van Tienen
Represented the Escom parent company at Amiga presentations.

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