MultiGen Promotes Ray Homan to Executive Vice President

San Jose, Calif. -- January 27, 1997 -- MultiGen Inc., the leader in real-time 3D authoring software, today announced that Ray Homan has been promoted to executive vice president. In his new capacity, Homan will oversee all of MultiGen's day-to-day operations as well as continue in his role as General Manager of the SmartScene Subsidiary.

"Ray's outstanding contributions to MultiGen to date make me very confident he will perform his new role with skill and innovation," said Dennis Yeo, CEO and chairman of MultiGen Inc. "As MultiGen grows it faces new challenges and Ray's experience and insights will be invaluable in taking the company into the future."

Looking to the future, Ray comments, "MultiGen's expertise in delivering tools the developing realtime databases has lead to breakthrough technologies in the manipulation and modification of 3D objects. These new technologies will lead to a host of new markets and applications, including realtime animation and realtime training. This is a time of tremendous opportunity for MultiGen and I am excited to be a part of it."

Before joining MultiGen, Homan was marketing development manager at Silicon Graphics, Inc. In his more than eight years at the company, he led a team in the development and marketing of Silicon Graphics' first billion-dollar product line, and led the introduction and marketing of new product lines both domestically and internationally. Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, Inc., Homan served as a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch and as an operations engineer with Varian Associates. He earned a bachelor of science degree in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley.

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