Investment Adviser John C. Ball Joins Alpha Microsystems Board

John C. Ball has been appointed a director of Alpha Microsystems in Santa Ana, enlarging the board from eight to nine members. Ball is a registered investment adviser with a firm, JBL/New England Ltd., in Concord, Mass. Before forming his own company in 1989, Ball served as director of corporate strategy for Thermo Electron Corp., and before that, was vice president of the research departments at Blyth Eastman Dillon, A.G. Becker and PaineWebber.