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Microsoft's LaPlante Joins ROY-G-BIV Advisory Board

Bingen, WA – June  2006 – ROY-G-BIV Corporation, a leading provider of machine-to-enterprise integration solutions for manufacturing, announced the addition of Microsoft executive Rick LaPlante to its corporate advisory board.  Mr. LaPlante offers 18 years of expertise managing and growing various software development platform and tools businesses at Microsoft Corporation. 

 “ROY-G-BIV presents a unique opportunity to modernize manufacturing industries by applying a classic software model for universal hardware connectivity to both legacy and modern machine tools and robotic equipment,” said LaPlante.

“ROY-G-BIV’s patent portfolio protecting their fundamental innovations is equally impressive.  It speaks to Company’s vision and commitment of making diverse robotic machines as easy to integrate with modern software systems as Microsoft Windows does for other kinds of computer hardware accessories.” 

Mr. LaPlante started Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System product line and is currently the Director and General Manager of this new multi-hundred million dollar revenue business. 

He joined Microsoft in 1988 and has held a variety of positions including Software Design Engineer and Group Program Manager for the C++ compiler product line, Development Manager of Microsoft's Internal Tools engineering team, and Director of Business Development for the company's Developer and .NET platform lines of business.   

In his limited discretionary time he is an avid outdoorsman and spends time fishing, camping, snowmobiling, and snow skiing with his wife and daughter.

About ROY-G-BIV

ROY-G-BIV Corporation develops and markets the XMC® universal connectivity platform to improve manufacturers’ visibility, utilization and performance of plant floor robotic and motion-controlled machinery.  The XMC platform serves as a common, vendor-neutral interface between proprietary machines and virtually any factory or enterprise software system, facilitating access to a wealth of hard-to-reach machine operational and health data.  ROY-G-BIV’s vision is to enable robotic machines and devices of all kinds for an increasingly interconnected world. ROY-G-BIV’s systems are protected by 30 issued U.S. and foreign patents. 

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