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EXHIBIT 99.1
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
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SONOSITE ANNOUNCES GUY SEATON, CFO, IS LEAVING TO JOIN LOCAL
ELECTRONIC CUSTOMER SERVICE SOFTWARE FIRM
BOTHELL, WA, May 16, 2000 - SonoSite, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONO), the leader in the
design, manufacture and marketing of innovative hand-carried ultrasound
technologies, today announced that Guy Seaton, SonoSite's chief financial
officer, has announced his intention to resign from the Company. Seaton will be
joining Talisma Corporation, a privately financed local software company founded
by former Microsoft management.
"Guy has been invaluable during SonoSite's evolution from development stage to
our present growth phase," said Kevin M. Goodwin, president and CEO of SonoSite.
"We are going to miss him. From here, we will continue to remain focused on
growth and ultimately, profitability. We will follow an orderly transition
process through Guy's departure in June and will move as quickly as possible to
name a successor."
"SonoSite is an exciting company with superb products and highly-talented
people," Seaton said. "It was a difficult decision for me to leave, but the
software industry will provide me with a new set of challenges, and this is the
right opportunity for me. I am confident that SonoSite will be successful in
driving the exciting new field of ultra-portable, high quality, connected
ultrasound technologies. I am proud to have been part of the Company's early
success. I will follow SonoSite's future closely as a stockholder as well as a
former employee."
SonoSite, Inc., (www.sonosite.com) headquartered in Bothell, Wash., develops,
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manufactures, markets and sells a new class of hand-carried, all-digital
ultrasound systems designed to have the image quality of larger, more expensive
systems but small enough to be hand-carried from bedside to bedside and room to
room in many clinical settings. SonoSite became an independent public company on
April 6, 1998, as a result of a spin-off from ATL Ultrasound.
NOTE: we are having technical problems with our phone service provider today,
May 16, 2000, which is making it difficult to reach the Company via telephone.
For questions about this release, please send an E-mail to
[email protected], or call 877-951-7483, and we will return your call
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immediately.
