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FOR COMPUTERVISION'S ALLEN, IT WAS A REWARDING BIRTHDAY
[THIRD Edition]
Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext)
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Boston, Mass.
| Author: | Jane Fitz Simon, Globe Staff |
| Date: | Jan 29, 1988 |
| Start Page: | 21 |
| Section: | BUSINESS |
| Text Word Count: | 362 |
The sale of Computervision caps what is a long corporate history by Route 128 standards. An engineer turned manager, [Martin Allen] founded Computervision in 1968 with entrepreneur Philippe Villers, now president of Cognition Inc. of Billerica.
- Robert L. Gable, president and chief executive officer of Computervision since 1986, made $2.5 million. The former Kidde Inc. executive was brought in to turn Computervision around.
- Philip L. Read, senior vice president of Computervision since 1981, was chief operating officer from February 1981 to May 1983. The one-time General Electric executive's gain from the sale of Computervision: $1.9 million.
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