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Bert Amato
Bert Amato is an investor and consultant in the high-technology industry. He currently sits as an advisory board member of several firms, including XDL Intervest Management, Farelogix and Infotriever. Born in Rhodesia, he emigrated to Canada, where he received a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Toronto. He helped co-found Delrina in 1988 along with South African expatriates Mark Skapinker and Dennis Bennie. The previous year, he and Skapinker came up with the idea of creating electronic business form software. They met with Bennie, who was then the chief executive officer of Carolian Systems International, a firm that made business software for Hewlett-Packard. He arranged for an initial seed investment of $1.5 million Canadian dollar, CAD to create a new start-up company to develop this idea, which was called "Delrina". From 1988 to 1995 he was executive vice president and chief technical officer of Delrina, where he was responsible for product research. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A continuous flow intersection (CFI), also called a crossover displaced left-turn (XDL or DLT), is an alternative design for an intersection (road), at-grade road junction. Vehicles attempting to turn across the opposing direction of traffic (left in right- and left-hand traffic, right-hand drive jurisdictions; right in left-hand drive jurisdictions) cross before they enter the intersection. No left turn signal in the intersection is then necessary. Instead, vehicles traveling in both directions can proceed, including through vehicles and those turning right or left, when a generic traffic signal/stop sign permits. Its design also is promoted as part of the Federal Highway Administration's Every Day Counts initiative which started in 2011. History A fly-over designed CFI interchange (road), interchange (separated grade) was invented by Francisco Mier. An intersection (at-grade) variant followed. Over 40 have been implemented since 2000. Mier patented his design and required a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
