Commodore Photo Album

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Commodore Photo Album

Over the years Commodore took the Amiga from an all-time high and then reduced it to ashes. Here are just a few of the people that controlled the Amiga market.

	Medhi Ali Former Managing Director of Commodore. His legacy includes the cancellation of the A3000+ in favour of the inferior A4000. He is one of the people blamed for the collapse of the once great company.
	Dean Barrett Dean was Commodore UK marketing manager during 1990.
	Steve Beats Responsible for Amiga File System development
	Martin Chipperfield Regional sales manager at Commodore UK
	Terry Cooke Cooke was head of Commodore UK's multimedia division.
	Jeff Earl Jeff became marketing manager for Commodore during 1989. He was sacked less than a year later.
	Lew Eggerbrecht Commodore Vice President of Engineering before the closure. He was partly responsible for the CD32.
	Andy Finkel Software Manager at Commodore-Amiga during the mid-1980s
	Steve Franklin Former managing director of Commodore UK.
	Don Gilbreath Director of product and Market Development at Commodore International from 1980 to 1992. He became Chief Technical Officer at VisCorp, working alongside Amiga Technologies on the Amiga ED.
	Rick Glover Rick was head of CBM technical support during the late 1980s. He has a degree in electronics and a PhD in aerodynamics.
	Irving Gould Investor that allowed Jack Tramiel to develop calculator and, eventually desktop computers.
	Dr. Rahman Haleem Technical manager at Commodore UK during the late 1980s. He coordinated the work of CATS UK and ran the Amiga Developers Advisory Board.
	Dave Haynie Former Commodore head of engineering. Responsible for the unreleased AAA and Hombre projects and is still quite vocal in the Amiga community. Click here to see another picture of Dave looking very young.
	Randell Jesup Responsible for AmigaDOS development
	Dr. Tim King Developer of TripOS for the 68k. He was contracted by Commodore to replace CAOS, which had fell behind, with AmigaDOS. He later developed the Abaq transputer system for the Atari ST. View a current photo.
	Dr. Peter Kittel Worked for Commodore Germany in the engineering department and was hired by Amiga Technologies as their documentation writer and web services manager. He is still an active Amiga user.
	Brian Lavington Commodore's Multimedia sales manager during the early 1990s.
	Werter Mambelli CEO of CBM Italy during 1989
	David Pleasance Took over as joint Managing Director of Commodore UK after the resignation of Kelly Sumner. During his time in marketing he was responsible for some of the most popular Amiga bundles, including the Batman pack. Jointly responsible for the Commodore UK Management Buyout.
	Jeff Porter Jeff headed the A500 design team, and took charge of hardware development at Commodore. When asked about hardware changes between current machines and those in development, he would repeatedly comment "Apple pie and motherhood".
	Colin Proudfoot The final Joint Managing Director of Commodore UK and jointly responsible for the Commodore UK Management Buyout.
	Henri Rubin Dr. Rubin was head of Commodore research and development. In 1989 he joined the Commodore board of directors. He has the pleasure of being the last Commodore manager that is known to have used an Amiga. He was fired by Medhi Ali, who replaced him with Bill Sydnes.
	Carolyn Scheppner Technical support manager (nicknamed Miss IFF)
	Sergio Simonelli General director of CBM Italy during 1988
	Alvin Stumpf Stumpf made his name with the C64, before leaving Commodore to join Atari with Jack Tramiel. During this time he was responsible for the success of the ST in Germany, but returned to Commodore in 1992 as MD of Commodore Germany.
	Kelly Sumner Became Commodore UK Managing Director following the departure of Steve Franklin in 1991. Two years later (May 1993) he left to join US game giant, Gametek. View recent photo (21K)
	Peter Talbot Nationals Sales Manager for Local Government and Education, Commodore UK. Joined Commodore in June 1987 and initiated a three-year plan to promote the Amiga in education. In March 1992 he quit the firm and joined Acorn.
	Barry Thurston Multimedia sales director at Commodore during the early 1990s.
	Jack Tramiel Founder of Commodore International. Resigned in 1984 and bought Atari from Time Warner.
	Gail Wellington Known as the mother of the Amiga. Gail was formerly head of Commodore UK techies, until promotion moved her to the US. She ensured that ideas were acted upon. Amiga publications have suggested that Gail was solely responsible for the Amigas US success.
	Steve White Steve joined Commodore in 1990 after several years at Acorn. As schools business development manager, his job was to develop a strong relationship between primary/secondary education authorities and Commodore.