Server: Netscape-Enterprise/2.01 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 02:48:49 GMT Accept-ranges: bytes Last-modified: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:41:29 GMT Content-length: 3027 Content-type: text/html April 22, 1996 news release

April 22, 1996
Dallas, Texas



Digital Communications Technology Corporation (Amex:"DCT") announced today that it has named Hugh C. Coppen as its new President & CEO, replacing Jack Brown who was terminated.

Mr Coppen's reputation is well known throughout the video duplication industry for his innovative and highly successful marketing and manufacturing expertise. His many published articles and presentations at major industry conventions have contributed to his recognition as one of the best qualified executives in the industry.

Over the past decade, Mr. Coppen served as President of VTR Video in Toronto, which was then Canada's largest duplicator, and subsequently as President of West Coast Video Duplicating's UK operation. He was the co-founder of Quality Works Inc., a consulting practice specializing in the introduction of the latest management methods in the video duplication and optical disk replication industries. He was also employed as V.P. of Manufacturing with Allied Digital Technologies Corporation.

A graduate with law majors from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, Mr. Coppen's earlier career was spent in positions of rapidly increasing management responsibility in consumer packaged goods companies such as Colgate-Palmolive and General Foods, as well as in the advertising agency business. Following a major role as corporate Vice-President of Marketing in a $1.5 billion company in the energy industry, he was President of a consulting company, working primarily with Molson Breweries in Canada on a variety of projects.

Commenting on the appointment, Kevin B. Halter, Chairman of the Company stated: "We are extremely excited about what Hugh Coppen's joining our team means to the Company and its shareholders. His broad expertise and respect in our industry and his proven effective implementation of this knowledge will take DCT to the next level as we continue our aggressive plan of growth".


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