Online analytical processing company Arbor Software Corp has lost one of its key members of staff to information delivery systems provider D2K Inc. The company has appointed former Arbor engineering team player Eric Lan as vice president of engineering. Lan has 17 years of software experience and was instrumental in building Sunnyvale, California-based Arbor’s engineering team, an asset that D2K believes will prove invaluable to its operations. Based in San Jose, California, D2K was established around a year ago and recently teamed with Informix Software Inc to produce an integrated data warehouse offering, blending the companies’ technologies together (CI No 3,162). In his time at Arbor, Lan worked as vice president and chief architect as well as director of engineering. Lan has also worked at Oracle Corp, Ocron Inc and Atherton Technology. He will head the D2K laboratories in the US, UK and Singapore.