Songbird, the first digital music player to embrace a diverse, open media web appointed former BITTORRENT executive, Brian Taptich to the role of VP Strategic Development overseeing all aspects of Songbird's monetization strategy and execution.

Mr. Taptich joins Songbird with more than 15 years experience in the digital media and entertainment industry spanning multiple disciplines including finance, general management, marketing and business development. Taptich most recently served as VP Business Development at BITTORRENT INC., the world's leading peer-assisted content delivery and platform company. Prior to BITTORRENT, Taptich spent 2 years as Director Online Business Development and Marketing at Electronic Arts where he was instrumental in developing key online partnerships with companies including Google, Yahoo, and Fox.

Songbird is based in San Francisco and backed by Sequoia Capital and Atlas Ventures.

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Corrigo, Inc., the leader in mobile SaaS field service applications announced today that Ron Verni, 59, has been named Chief Executive Officer. Verni takes the reins from Corrigo founder Rick Michaux, who will continue as Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer.

Mr. Verni was most recently President & CEO of Sage Software, Inc, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Sage Group, plc. Under his leadership, the company grew from less than $160 million in revenue to over $1 billion, from under 1,000 employees to over 5,000, and from 1 million business customers to over 2.5 million.

"Ron's entrepreneurial and management experience and his track record of building successful businesses give us great confidence in achieving the future growth and success of our company," said Michaux. "His vision, passion, and operational expertise are integral to continue building Corrigo as the leading provider of mobile SaaS applications for the service, construction and facilities markets."

"Corrigo is one of the most exciting companies in the Software as a Service (SaaS) sector as it focuses on key segments of the field services market that together have more than fourteen million potential users," said Ron Verni. "They are unique in delivering complete SaaS solutions that extend from the office to mobile devices in the field. Rick and his team have built a terrific company and have developed a great set of products and services that are perfectly targeted for this market. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to lead this team as the company continues on its next critical stage of development."

Prior to Sage Software, Mr. Verni was President and CEO of Peachtree Software, Inc., a leading business management solution for small to medium size businesses. Verni also was a Vice President of Marketing with Automatic Data Processing, President and CEO of NEBS Software, Inc., and the founder and CEO of ASTEC Software.

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Truviso, a provider of enterprise solutions that deliver actionable insights for the net-centric business, today announced the appointment of Roman Bukary as the company's vice president of marketing and business development. Mr. Bukary will be responsible for corporate strategy, go-to-market approaches, and global visibility for Truviso across key market segments, as well as defining and implementing long-term industry relationships, and enhancing sales initiatives. The appointment will enable Truviso to accelerate and broaden its efforts to win market share and establish a leading industry position for its real-time business intelligence and complex event processing solutions.

"We are pleased to have Roman's unique combination of experience with leading-edge technologies and complex solutions, and his proven business development background," said Boyd Pearce, Truviso's president and chief executive officer. "He joins us at a critical juncture in our history, and we will benefit enormously from his background and focus as we work to build our market presence and win customer loyalty."

Mr. Bukary joins Truviso from SAP, where he served most recently as vice president in the Global Partner Ecosystem Group, responsible for numerous SAP strategic technology partnerships. Previously at SAP, he launched the company's analytic application business after holding positions in composite applications and business intelligence solution marketing. Earlier in his career, Mr. Bukary was a co-founding executive and vice president of product marketing at Rearden Commerce, a service-oriented architecture personal services procurement firm. At Rearden, he was responsible for the company's marketing, corporate strategy, and strategic alliances. Prior to Rearden, he was part of Informatica Corporation's management team, which took the company public. Mr. Bukary also has broad experience in building and leading product and industry marketing groups, corporate strategy, and product management with companies including Baan and Parametric Technology Corporation. He started his career as an aeronautical design engineer at Pratt & Whitney, UTC, and holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering, as well as a B.S. in psychology, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.

"I'm excited to join Truviso's team. The company has great people, superior technology, and market transforming potential," said Bukary. "While many companies have attempted to solve the challenge of delivering timely, contextually-rich insights for dynamic businesses, Truviso's innovative, standards-based technology is the first to achieve this goal—and achieve it in a way that is ready for broad customer adoption."

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GroundWork Open Source, Inc., the leader in open source systems and network management software, today announced the appointment of Tara Spalding as Vice President of Marketing. Spalding comes to GroundWork from SugarCRM, the leading commercial open source Customer Relationship Management solution, where she held the title of Vice President of Corporate Marketing - and the distinction of being the company's first employee.

"I'm convinced GroundWork's model of integrating best of breed open source projects into a comprehensive IT infrastructure and network monitoring platform - to free enterprise customers from legacy vendor lock-in — is a major market opportunity and the next big industry vertical to be conquered by the compelling benefits of open source software's value proposition," said Spalding. "2008 will be an exciting time for GroundWork as we continue to show the disruptive power of open source in the enterprise environment."

GroundWork unifies the world's leading open source IT management projects to deliver enterprise-class IT systems and network management solutions at a fraction of the cost of legacy frameworks like HP OpenView.

"Tara's ability to effectively market commercial open source is validated by one word - SugarCRM," said Robin Vasan, Managing Director at Mayfield. "Tara's unique talent and experience will take GroundWork Open Source to the next level of growth."

Prior to her work at SugarCRM, Tara specialized in online promotions, lead generation and web site design and usability with E.piphany and Edify. She started her marketing career in the California wine industry.

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Veracode, the leading provider of on-demand application security testing solutions, named Seksom Suriyapa as Vice President of Business Development. Most recently, Mr. Suriyapa served as Acting President and COO at Elemental Security. Prior to Elemental, he held the position of Senior Vice President of Business Development at Webroot Software and was the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at McAfee, Inc. Veracode is funded by .406 Ventures, Atlas Ventures, Polaris Venture Partners.

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Red 5 Studios, an independent developer of massively multiplayer online entertainment appointed former Oracle executive, Mike Weingartner as VP Engineering, leading all worldwide platform engineering and development initiatives.

Mr. Weingartner joins RED 5 with over 20 years experience in software development and engineering. Weingartner most recently served as VP Server Technology at Oracle where he led the worldwide engineering efforts for the SOA Suite product set. Prior to Oracle, Weingartner served as VP Engineering at Talking Blocks through it's acquisition by HP, where he stayed on to lead the worldwide R&D Enablement team, a 500+ person organization. Before this, Weingartner spent 3 years as VP Engineering at Siebel systems, a CRM solutions leader acquired by Oracle in 2005.

RED 5 STUDIOS is based in Aliso Viejo, CA., and backed by Benchmark Capital and Sierra Ventures.

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Citrix Systems Appoints Director of Inside Sales to support recent acquisition of Xensource
Ryan Thomas, Former Scriptlogic VP, Will lead the expansion of inside sales for Citrix’s new Virtualization Server Business Unit which will be lead by Xensource CEO, Peter Levine.

Executive Search firm Daversa Partners have recruited Ryan Thomas as the new director of inside sales at Citrix Systems. In his new role, Thomas will oversee growth of the company’s inside sales and channel organizations for the Americas region to support the new sales build out supporting the Xen product line. Ryan has a vast amount of experience in inside sales playing a crucial role at Seagate Software and Veritas based in Florida.

The search was lead by Senior Associate, Peter Baiocco. Citrix Systems, Inc. designs, develops and markets technology solutions that enable applications to be delivered, supported and shared on demand. Its Application Delivery Infrastructure products are designed to offer solutions across all dimensions of application delivery. It packages and markets application delivery solutions, and it has organized its products into five principal product groupings: Application Virtualization, Application Networking, Management Systems, Online Services and Advanced Solutions. The Company markets and licenses its products through multiple channels, such as value-added resellers, channel distributors, system integrators (Sis), independent software vendors (ISVs), its Websites and original equipment manufacturers. In January 2007, the Company acquired Ardence Inc. In March 2007, the Company acquired thinGenius, Ltd. In September 2007, it acquired QuickTree, a software technology provider. In October 2007, Citrix Systems, Inc. acquired XenSource, Inc.

Daversa Partners; located in Stamford, San Francisco, and Austin, recruits C-level executives exclusively for venture backed companies in the BPO, enterprise software and consumer spaces.

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Founding Partner Jason Slattery recently placed Patrick Morley as Chief Executive Officer of Bit9. Patrick most recently served as the COO of Corel Corporation as well as the first CEO of Boston-based Imprivata.

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LifeSize, the high definition video communications company, announced Colin Buechler as Vice President of Marketing. Most recently, Colin served in a number of senior executive positions at Dell including Vice President of Americas Marketing, VP Sales and VP Corporate Strategy. Prior to Dell, Colin was a Principal with Evolution Global Partners.  LifeSize is funded by Austin Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Lehman Brothers, Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Pinnacle Ventures.

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Camiant, the leading provider of policy control and application assurance technology for service providers worldwide,appointed veteran telecommunications executive Steve Slattery to the post of president and chief executive officer of the company. Slattery, who most recently led Nortel Networks' (NYSE: NT) Enterprise Solutions organization, will utilize his operational and business development expertise to continue Camiant's momentum in the policy server market for service providers worldwise.

Slattery's appointment signals an intensifying focus at Camiant to support next-generation broadband Internet protocol networks, and emerging wireless platforms which demand unparalleled performance in the delivery of multimedia content and applications. The company's policy management solutions portfolio enables broadband network providers to assure exacting allocations of network resources that support the flawless delivery of a wide array of applications.

"Steve's appointment underscores Camiant's commitment to serving top-tier customers around the world, and accelerating the growth of the compmany as multimedia applications and mobile convergence plays a critical role across market segments," said Ed Anderson, managing partner of North Bridge Venture Partners, and a member of the Camiant board of directors. " His prominence in the field of mobility, and his demonstrated ability to translate technology innovation into large-scale business, dovetails perfectly with Camiant's rising profile in the broadband sector. We are thrilled to have an executive of Steve's caliber lead Camiant into its next growth phase,"

Slattery is a well known telecommunications executive with a reputation for advancing large, growing businesses that depend on innovative technologies. Most recently, he was president of Nortel's Enterprise Solutions business unit, where he established strategic partnerships with Microsoft and changed the trajectory of the division to its current 20% year-over-year quarterly revenue growth. Previously, Slattery served as president of Nortel's Carrier Packet Networks organization, which encompassed the company's Ethernet, optical, and wireline voice and data portfolios. He is also widely recognized as the driver of Nortel's successes in the mobile market, and for establishing Nortel as a key vendor at Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other mobile operators for rollouts of their respective 3G infrastructures.

Slattery holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and a MBA from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.

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CCP Games, the developer of cutting-edge massively multiplayer games has announced the addition of Ryan Dancey as CMO.  Dancey is a long time gamer - online and off.  He is known for leading the team that created the 3rd Edition of Dungeons & Dragons, creating a successful marketing consultancy, co-founding an ISP celebrating it's 19th year of operations and establishing a 96.5% in stock rate as the buyer at MacZone.  Before joining CCP Games, Dancey was co-founder of Isomedia and a Vice President at Wizards of the Coast, the maker of Dungeons and Dragons, and with Hasbro after they acquired the company.  Dancey will be based out of Iceland and Atlanta.

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Founding Partner Jason Slattery recently placed Gijo Mathew as Vice President of Data Loss Prevention at Orchestria. Gijo comes to Orchestria from Computer Associates/CA, Inc. where he was the Vice President of Security Solutions globally.

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MarketLive, the leading provider of e-commerce retail technology and services for selling online, today announced the appointment of Angela Bandlow as Vice President Product Management. Angela brings over 16 years of experience in enterprise software specializing in product strategy, product marketing and product management. Most recently Angela was Vice President of Product Marketing, SAP CRM at SAP Labs where she played a critical role in SAP’s product marketing leadership team for SAP applications and suite responsible for product portfolio planning and investment recommendations, including collaboration with industries, platform and emerging solutions groups. Prior to SAP Angela held executive management positions at Allegis Corporation, Calico Commerce, and IBM. Marketlive is funded by Sequoia Capital and Sigma Partners.

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EqualLogic, maker of data storage systems that radically simplify the way mid-size to large businesses store and protect information, today announced Tim Yeaton as Chief Marketing Officer. Tim comes to Equallogic after recently serving as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing & General Manager, Products Division at Red Hat where he was responsible for all worldwide marketing functions including Partner, Product and Programs Marketing and Communications. Yeaton, who most recently held the position of President and CEO of Avaki Corporation (acquired by Sybase), has over 25 years of experience as part of the management team at companies such as Macromedia and Compaq. Prior to leading the team at Avaki, Yeaton held the position of Senior Vice President & General Manager, Server Products at Macromedia where he was responsible for complete general management and P&L for all of Macromedia's server-side products. At Compaq Yeaton was Vice President & General Manager, UNIX/Linux Systems Division with responsibility for the general management for Compaq's UNIX systems business, including all UNIX and Linux-related activities across Compaq divisions. Yeaton holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration with Concentrations in Marketing and Finance from Babson College and a Bachelors of Science Degree in management from Roger Williams University. EqualLogic is funded by Charles River Ventures, Focus Ventures, Sigma Partners, and TD Capital Ventures.

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Founding Partner Jason Slattery recently placed Tom Karrat as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Mimeo.com, the innovator of online, on-demand digital printing for business documents and marketing materials.

Karrat most recently served as the Senior Vice President of Sales for Yahoo HotJobs, where he managed a team of 300 people during his 4 years with the company. He joins Mimeo.com with more than 15 years of experience in sales and marketing.

Karrat, the newest member on the Mimeo.com executive team, will lead the rapidly growing sales and marketing team as it expands domestically and internationally.

In commenting on today’s announcement, Adam Slutsky, Chief Executive Officer of Mimeo.com, stated, "Hiring someone of Tom’s caliber and experience is a real coup for Mimeo.com and indicates the emergence and attraction of our brand to high profile senior executives nationwide. Tom’s energy, experience, and know-how will accelerate Mimeo.com’s growth in the online, on-demand market nationally while helping us expand into key international markets."

Mimeo.com executes this key hire directly on the heels of several company achievements and milestones, including being named to the Deloitte Fast 50 and 500 lists, the Inc. 5,000 and the recent round of funding led by Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies Group.

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Mark Logic, a provider of the industry's leading XML content server, today announced Andy Feit as Vice President of Marketing. Andy most recently was the Chief Marketing Officer for Knova. His focus was on expanding Knova's presence in the customer service and support markets while extending the company's reach across new markets. Knova was recently acquired by M2M Holdings. Mr. Feit's 20 years of technology marketing and sales expertise includes his most recent post as senior vice president of marketing at Adomo, a pioneer in the IP telephony applications market. Prior to Adomo Mr. Feit played a leading role in the definition, development, and marketing of knowledge management and search solutions for nearly 10 years. Mr. Feit held the position of senior vice president of marketing at Verity, Inc. where he was responsible for the company's full range of search, categorization, and business process management solutions. His credentials also include time at Inktomi, where he was vice president of enterprise search solutions, and at Infoseek, where he served as vice president and general manager of the enterprise software business unit. Mr. Feit has consistently focused on sales and marketing for the duration of his career, which includes time as a director and principal analyst for the market research firm Gartner/Dataquest and more than 10 years with Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. Feit holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Tufts University. Mark Logic is funded by Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers.

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Vendavo, the leader in pricing and margin management software, today announced Neil Lustig as Senior Vice President of WW Sales. Most recently, Lustig served as Vice President of WW Sales for Ariba, responsible for leading the Global sales initiative for Ariba. Prior to taking over Worldwide responsibility at Ariba, Lusting served as the EMEA GM for the same company. Lustig brings considerable expertise in Internet commerce and in customer sales and servicing. Prior to joining Ariba, Lustig was chief operating officer of Freelance.com, where he helped launch that European services company's North American operation. Mr. Lustig also was chief operating officer of Christie's Internet Auctions - Christie's high-end independent Internet art auction business. In addition to managing all aspects of the company's operations and finance, he engineered the end-to-end e-commerce technology to leverage the Company's core auction business on the Internet, with dramatic reduction in cycle times and operating costs. Before Christie's, Mr. Lustig was director, e-Commerce Solution Sales, IBM Americas. Under his direction, IBM's e-commerce team generated dramatic revenue growth. He worked with numerous clients to ensure that IBM solutions helped them achieve their business objectives in their e-commerce initiatives. He also held senior-level client management positions for IBM. Mr. Lustig holds a BA degree, magna cum laude, in computer science and applied mathematics from SUNY, Albany. While he maintains a residence in New York City with his wife, 2 young daughters and his new born son, during his tenure at Ariba EMEA GM he resides in the United Kingdom. Vendavo is funded by Doll Capital Management, Interwest Partners and Sigma Partners.

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Jasper Wireless, the world's only global GSM M2M mobile operator for wireless M2M applications, today announced Cindy Patterson as Executive Vice President of International Sales. Cindy comes to Jasper with 20 years of experience in the wireless industry. Most recently, she built and led the Enterprise Data direct and indirect sales channels at Verizon Wireless, responsible for deploying business applications at Fortune 1000, Global 500 and Federal Government customers in the United States. Previously, Cindy was President of the Central Texas market for Verizon Wireless where she launched the Verizon Wireless brand and the 3G data network and led all sales channels including retail, indirect and business-to-business. Cindy’s mobile network operator experience started with GTE-TSI (now Syniverse) where she led market entry into EMEA and Latin America. She also served as the Marketing Director for GTE Wireless in San Diego. Cindy started her wireless career with Motorola where she built and deployed a wide range of hardware, software and services to customers throughout North America, EMEA, Latin America and APAC. Patterson earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Michigan State University and an MBA from DePaul University - Kellstadt Graduate School of Business. Jasper Wireless is funded by Benchmark Capital, Sequoia Capital, Bridgescale Partners, and Duff Ackerman & Goodrich.

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PSS Systems, the leader in enterprise retention policy management, today announced Katie Nittler as Vice President of Business Development and Alliances. Katie comes to PSS with 20 years of business development, alliances and marketing experience. Prior to PSS, she was VP Alliances & Channels for the Communications Global Business Unit at Oracle having joined Oracle via the Portal acquisition. Katie has also held marketing and senior alliances and business development positions at Commerce One, NEON, PeopleSoft and Hewlett-Packard in the US and Europe. Katie has received sales awards and industry accolades including being recognized as one of the most influential people by B2B magazine. Katie holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from DeMontfort University and a Marketing Diploma from The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) PSS Systems is funded by Lightspeed Ventures, Adobe Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, Granite Ventures, and Cipio Partners.

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Scalent Stystems, a provider of datacenter virtualization software, today announced Ali Zadeh as Chief Operating Officer. Before joining Scalent, Ali most recently served as COO of NeoPath Networks, and Vice President of Intercontinental Sales at Network Appliance, where he was responsible for 40 percent of NetApp's revenue, and managed a global team of 500 employees as well as 200 resellers in 50 countries. Prior to Network Appliance, Ali was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Initio Corp., where he created a global sales force that included distribution, reseller and OEM representatives. Prior to Initio, Mr. Zadeh was at Adaptec where he managed OEMs, distributors and representatives for the Asia/Pacific region. Mr. Zadeh received his degree in marketing from California State University, San Jose and holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Shiraz University in Iran. Scalent Systems is funded by Hummer Winblad, JK & B Capital, Pequot Capital, and Credit Suisse.

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Orchestria, whose technology helps organizations eliminate the risks in uncontrolled electronic actions by helping to secure confidential data, ensure message compliance, institute proper legal hold, and ensure robust records management, today announced David Coman as vice president of marketing. Most recently, Coman served as Vice President of Global Marketing for Dendrite, responsible for the company’s global positioning, branding, lead generation and marketing campaign initiatives. Before joining Dendrite in 2003, Mr. Coman was Vice President of Marketing and Brand Management for Talk America (formerly AOL Long Distance), where he launched the Talk America brand, lead-generation website and all channel marketing support. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Coman was Executive Director and General Manager of the Wireless Products Division at Excel Communications, where he had complete P&L, operational and marketing responsibility. During his tenure at Excel, the company’s customer base increased by 200,000, yielding $50 million in annual revenue across all product lines. Orchestria is funded by Benchmark Capital, RRE Ventures, Cross Bridge Venture Partners, Constellation Ventures, Goldman Sachs, and Paladin Capital Group.

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Crossbeam Systems^®, Inc., the leader in enterprise- and carrier-class Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions for the world’s largest networks, today announced the appointment of Pete Fiore as its new president and chief executive officer (CEO). Fiore joins Crossbeam from IBM where he was a member of the company’s extended senior leadership team. While at IBM, Fiore led the integration of Ascential Software Corporation into IBM and established a new business segment, generating more than $500 million in annual revenue. Previously, he served as president of Ascential Software, where he led the company through its transition to an independent public company with nearly $300 million in annual revenue and an eventual $1.1 billion acquisition by IBM. Under his leadership, Ascential also emerged as the revenue and market share leader in enterprise data integration. Crossbeam is funded by Charles River Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Focus Ventures, Intel Capital, Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Tudor Ventures.

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Kazeon, industry leader in unstructured information management, today announced Ellis Ishaya as vice president of professional services. Most recently, Ishaya lead EVault’s Professional Services and was responsible for launching several new consulting practices including: Implementation Services, Education Services, Business Continuity Consulting, and EVault's Managed Services group. Prior to joining EVault, Ellis spent several years at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was responsible for managing the west, Pacific northwest, and Rocky Mountain regions for its IAS consulting group. In addition, he has led professional services organizations for ePeople, Primus, and Imparto Software Corporation. Kazeon is backed by Redpoint Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Focus Ventures, Goldman Sachs, and Clearstone Venture Partners.

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Data Robotics, a leading developer of storage technologies based on virtualization and cybernetics, today announced Dan Stevenson as President. Stevenson brings over 16 years of experience in the development, marketing and selling of award-winning and market-leading products. Most recently, Dan held a variety of positions at Gateway Computer including the vice president of direct sales and product marketing. Prior to Gateway, Dan held senior management positions at Apple Computer, AltaVista, and Compaq Computer. Data Robotics is funded by Greylock Partners, RRE Ventures, and Sutter Hill Ventures.

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Agiliance, a leading provider of IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC) solutions, today announced the appointment of Patrick Conte as president and chief executive officer. Conte, a 20-year veteran of the high technology industry has been selected to drive Agiliance’s market leadership as it continues to execute on the market opportunity presented by the emerging IT-GRC space. With a proven track record of successfully growing companies, Conte joins Agiliance from Teneros, a leading producer of zero-downtime, non-intrusive, plug-and-go Application Continuity Appliances, where he was executive vice president and general manager of field operations. Before Teneros, Conte was at Topspin Communications, which was acquired by Cisco in 2005. At Topspin, he led their go-to-market strategy for its industry-leading line of switch-based server virtualization solutions, and formed key OEM partnerships with the industry’s top system vendors. Prior to Topspin, Conte was VP of sales & marketing for Cobalt Networks, one of the top IPOs of 1999, and which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2000. Agiliance is backed by Walden International, Intel Capital, SVIC, and Red Rock Ventures

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KSR, leading Managed Risk Services Provider, today announced James Mobley as chief executive officer. Mobley, a proven corporate and early stage executive with over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, was most recently CEO of Intrusic. Prior to Intrusic, Mobley served as vice president of professional services in the Americas for Symantac. Prior to Symantec, Mobley was the president and chief executive officer of @stake, Inc., an industry leading digital security consulting and products company, which was acquired by Symantec Corporation in October 2004. Prior to @stake, Mobley honed his skills in major technology companies, including IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation (HP) and Compaq Computer Corporation (HP). While at IBM, he held key sales and services leadership positions and was nationally recognized for his accomplishments as a Business Unit Executive. During his time at Digital Equipment/Compaq Computer Corporation, he held a number of key executive positions, including Vice President of North America Professional Services Sales, Regional Vice President of Network and Systems Integration Services and Vice President and General Manager of the Southeast Major Accounts Region. KSR is backed by Trident Capital and Paladin Capital Group.

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Pentaho, the leader in Open Source Business Intelligence, today announced that Matthew Vitale has joined the company as executive vice president of worldwide sales. Mr. Vitale brings more than 25 years of sales and marketing experience to Pentaho; he was most recently senior vice president or the Americas at Ingres Corporation where he was responsible for field sales operations for Ingres’ open source database software products for North and South America. Mr. Vitale also spent 8 years with VERITAS Software, where he served as a regional vice president of the South Central Region and Eastern Region and was responsible for the largest sales organization in the Americas-generating $232 million in revenue. Previously, he held sales management and technical marketing positions at IBM for more than ten years in the areas of UNIX and high performance systems and lead sales teams in aerospace, manufacturing, telecommunications and public sector verticals. Pentaho is funded by New Enterprise Associates, Index Ventures and Larry Augustin, founder of VA Software and major investor behind JBoss & SugarCRM.

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LifeSize^®, the high definition video communications company, today announced Adam Taylor as executive vice president of worldwide sales and services. Over the past 15 years Adam Taylor has been a key contributor in helping to guide Avid Technology from a $7 million per year venture-backed startup company to an over $900 million publicly-traded corporation.  Taylor has great experience building high performance teams, managing significant financial responsibility, growing diverse distribution and hybrid sales models, and creating field marketing programs that drive awareness and demand.  Prior to Avid Technology, Taylor held senior sales and sales management positions at Xerox Business Systems, AM International and Lanier Business Products. LifeSize is funded by Austin Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Lehman Brothers, Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Pinnacle Ventures.

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EqualLogic, maker of data storage systems that radically simplify the way mid-size to large businesses store and protect information, today announced John True as vice president of sales for the Americas. True brings to EqualLogic a vast experience in sales having worked as executive vice president of worldwide sales at Ariba, and in various sales roles at Parametric Technology Corp. (PTC) such as senior vice president of major accounts. EqualLogic is funded by Charles River Ventures, Focus Ventures, Sigma Partners, and TD Capital Ventures.

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SenSage, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise event data management solutions, today announced the appointments of Ed Chopskie as vice president of corporate marketing. Chopskie’s career spans more than 15 years of experience in worldwide marketing, sales and product development. Before joining SenSage, he served as vice president of marketing for Creekpath, which was acquired by Opsware in August 2006. Prior to Creekpath, Chopskie was vice president of marketing at asset management visionary BDNA Corporation. He was with Peregrine Systems for nine years in marketing and development leadership roles, which led to a successful IPO for the company in 1997.  Chopskie was also with BMC Software as part of the Patrol product line launch team, and gained real-world IT experience from working for transportation conglomerate CSX, which deployed one of the largest computing environments on the East Coast. SenSage is backed by Sierra Ventures, Battery Ventures, Canaan Partners, and Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners.

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Equal Logic, leader in data storage systems that radically simplify the way mid-size and large businesses store and protect information, today have announced Kirk Bowman as executive vice president of worldwide field operations. A high technology veteran, Bowman brings more than 19 years sales leadership experience, including serving as executive vice president of worldwide field operations at VMware and COO at ModelN. Prior to this, Bowman served as senior vice president and general manager of worldwide field operations at Inktomi Corp. He also held the position of senior vice president and general manager at Object Design’s ObjectStore division. Bowman started his career at Parametric Technology Corp., where in seven years he rose from sales representative to senior vice president of business development and vice president of Asia Pacific and European operations. EqualLogic is funded by Charles River Ventures, Focus Ventures, Sigma Partners, and TD Capital Ventures.

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Amalgamated Insight, leading provider of zero-latency business intelligence solutions, has announced Boyd Pearce as the new chief executive officer. Boyd Pearce brings to Amalgamated Insight over 30 years of experience and success as a leader in both large and small companies.  He has a strong sales and marketing background, excellent contacts and has successfully managed sales, marketing, technical and product development teams for numerous organizations. Recently, as CEO of ANTs Software, he launched their first product and redirected product development to ease migration from the large database players while raising $24 million in the first 18 months.  Prior to joining ANTs, Boyd was, vice president and general manager of Hitachi Data Systems, where he transformed the North American Sales organization from mainframe-centric to storage and services, and vice president of Pyramid Technology where he was instrumental in the creation of the company's BI and data warehousing offering and in guiding the company's acquisition by Siemens. Amalgamated Insight is funded by ONSET Ventures, Diamondhead Ventures, and UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund.

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Tumbleweed Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: TMWD), the industry's leading pure play messaging security vendor, today announced that Nicholas Hulse has joined the company as executive vice president of worldwide field operations. In his role at Tumbleweed, Mr. Hulse will have global responsibility for overseeing sales, channel development and customer support for Tumbleweed's messaging security product lines. Mr. Hulse brings more than 20 years of IT leadership experience to Tumbleweed. Previously, Mr. Hulse was senior vice president of sales, marketing & channel development at FrontBridge Technologies, where he drove 141 percent revenue growth in 2005 prior to Microsoft’s acquisition of the company in August, 2005.  At Frontbridge he built the industry’s largest distribution partner network and grew indirect sales to more than 86 percent of revenues.  Prior to FrontBridge, Mr. Hulse was general manager/senior vice president of Cybertek Holdings/Secos, Inc. where he led the company’s U.S. operations.  He also served as vice president of marketing, products & channel sales at Epoch Internet where he was the principal architect of the channel sales program.

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Bit9, Inc., the leading provider of desktop lockdown and application control solutions, today named Doug Cahill as vice president of business development. Cahill brings more than two decades of working with technology companies with partner-centric business models to establish leadership and expand distribution. These companies include AppIQ, HighGround, Shiva, and Progress Software. Cahill will manage Bit9's strategic partnering initiatives including distribution and licensing programs. The company has worked to bolster its channel programs significantly over the past year and will continue to expand its relationships with resellers, technology partners, and systems integrators under Cahill's leadership. Cahill comes to Bit9 from Hewlett-Packard, which he joined when the company acquired AppIQ, a storage management vendor, in 2005. At AppIQ, Cahill was the company's vice president of business development and strategy, where he led much of the company's go-to-market activities by executing the company's highly successful OEM distribution model and managing all other facets of AppIQ's partner initiatives . After the acquisition, he retained 100 percent of AppIQ's OEMs, including HP competitors such as EMC. Bit9 is backed by Atlas Ventures, Highland Venture Capital, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

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SAP America, division of the world’s largest business software maker, today announced Tom Cooper as senior vice president of enterprise sales for the southwest. Mr. Cooper formerly served as senior vice president of International and worldwide channels for JBOSS (acquired by Red Hat in 2006) as well as president of the Americas at i2 Corporation.

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MessageOne, the fastest growing business continuity company, today announced Susan Marshall as vice president of corporate sales. Prior, she joined HyPerformix, an early stage company backed by Austin Ventures, in 2004 as vice president of sales and marketing.  Prior to HyPerformix, Ms. Marshall served as vice president of sales for the western US, Canada, and Latin America regions of BroadVision, vice president sales and marketing for Realm Business Solutions, and area vice president for Mercury Interactive. Throughout her career she has consistently met and exceeded sales goals, grown new accounts, and established new markets, while building exceptional sales teams. MessageOne is funded by Venrock Associates, Blue Chip Venture Company, Impact Venture Partners, QuestMark Partners, RRE Ventures, and Starvest Partners.

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Global 360, a leading provider of business process management (BPM), intelligence and optimization solutions, today announced John Pierson as its new senior vice president of worldwide field operations. Bringing more than 25 years experience in sales and marketing management, Pierson will lead the company’s customer-facing strategies and operations. Pierson comes to Global 360 from Hyperion, where he served as the vice president of the Americas for three years. In this role he was responsible for driving sales, services and field marketing strategies in the North and Latin American markets. Pierson joined Hyperion in 2001 as vice president of the company’s channel organization. In this position, Pierson strengthened Hyperion’s partnering strategy and relationships with top global system integrators. From 1996 to 2001, Pierson held positions at Intermac Technologies, a provider of wireless mobile computing products, including vice president of Global indirect sales, vice president and general manager of North American and Latin American indirect sales and vice president of Northern American indirect sales. Global 360 raised $200 million through the private equity firms TA Associates and Technology Crossover Ventures.

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OnForce, the only online marketplace for on-site technology services, rings in 2007 with new leadership and a focus on accelerating the growth of its platform. Peter Cannone joins OnForce as chief executive officer, responsible for the strategic direction of the company, as well as providing leadership and support to the product development, operations, sales and marketing of the company. Cannone joins OnForce from PC Connection, where he was senior vice president of sales operations, responsible for the company's IT solution provider base across a variety of customer sectors including small- to medium-sized business, higher education, government and Fortune 1000. Cannone will focus on building OnForce into the most robust IT service exchange and standard in the industry. OnForce is backed by General Catalyst.

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Akorri, provider of sophisticated analytics software unifying the management of siloed infrastructure components, has announced Thomas Joyce as the new vice president of marketing. Joyce has 20 years of experience in product marketing, product management and sales. Before joining Akorri, Tom worked at EMC Corporation for eight years where he was vice president and general manager of the IP Storage business unit. As vice president of Platforms Marketing, Tom was responsible for EMC's flagship storage platform products, including Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Celerra, and Connectrix. Prior to that Tom also executed mergers and acquisitions as part of EMC's New Business Development group, and was instrumental in the acquisition of Data General and many other companies. Akorri is backed by Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Globespan Capital Partners, and BlueStream Ventures.

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Fonality^® a leader in open source, Asterisk^®-based IP telephony systems, today announced that marketing and branding leader, Arnold Waldstein, has the joined the company as senior vice president of marketing. Waldstein brings more than 20 years of consumer and business-to-business (B2B) technology industry strategic marketing and business development leadership to Fonality. He is responsible for the overall marketing and branding strategies of Fonality, its PBXtra^TM and trixbox^® product lines and the trixbox open source community. Waldstein began his career in computer gaming and multimedia entertainment at the new Atari, where he was responsible for publishing hundreds of games and taking the company public. He was also one of the original executives at Creative Labs, where he built the Sound Blaster brand over four years from $5M in sales to $1.2B, developed it into a household name, sold 80 million units and executed an extremely successful public offering. Fonality is funded by Azure Capital Partners and Intel Capital.

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Fonality, a leader in open source, Asterisk-based IP telephony systems, today announced the addition Chris Vuillaume as vice president of business and channel development. Vuillaume brings 15 years of telecommunications industry experience. Previously, he was vice president for the IP telephony product marketing group at Alcatel (NYSE: ALA), where he was responsible for marketing and business development for the company's North American IP telephony practice, including distribution channels. He also has a rich entrepreneurial history, notably co-founding Santa Clara-based NetManSys, a developer of software to manage devices that transmit voice and data traffic over telecommunications networks, where he served as vice president of marketing, grew the company from inception to 80 employees and ultimately sold it to a private acquirer. Fonality is funded by Azure Capital Partners and Intel Capital.

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ColdSpark, the leader in next-generation enterprise messaging infrastructure, today announced Henry Rodriguez III as vice president of engineering. Mr. Rodriguez will be responsible for managing the company's enterprise messaging product development. He brings more than 24 years of engineering and product development experience to the fast growing company. Prior to joining ColdSpark, Mr. Rodriguez led the product development team at Webroot Software, Inc., provider of the widely deployed Spy Sweeper™ line of anti-spyware products for consumers, small businesses and enterprises. Prior to his position at Webroot, he served as chief technology officer at Dynix, a global provider of automation technologies for libraries that merged with Sirsi, developer of integrated library technologies, in 2005. In his role at Dynix, Mr. Rodriguez streamlined the company's product lines, instituted product development strategy and led a team of more than 125 employees. Mr. Rodriguez has also held executive engineering positions at Raindance Communications, Xtra-Online and Borealis Technology. Coldspark is backed by JK&B Capital.

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ColdSpark, the leader in next-generation enterprise messaging infrastructure, today announced that Mike Puterbaugh has joined the company as vice president of marketing. Mr. Puterbaugh is a technology industry veteran with a strong track record of accelerating market awareness and growth for enterprise software solutions. Mr. Puterbaugh will oversee all aspects of ColdSpark’s marketing activities, including analyst and media relations, demand generation, marketing programs and brand strategy to further increase the visibility and awareness of the company's portfolio of solutions. He was most recently with eEye Digital Security as vice president of marketing, where he helped establish eEye as one of the industry's fastest growing network security software companies. Under his supervision, eEye's products were lauded by numerous publications, including Network World, PC Magazine, eWeek, SC Magazine and Windows ITPro. Mr. Puterbaugh was also critical in establishing eEye as the foremost educator on security software in publications such as Red Herring, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, as well as being named Frost & Sullivan's Entrepreneurial Company of the Year for 2005. Coldspark is funded by JK&B Capital.

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PostPath, creator of better e-mail and collaboration infrastructure, today announced Steve Erbst as vice president of sales. Steve Erbst brings more than 17 years of senior management experience in the high technology and enterprise security software industry. With extensive experience in domestic and international sales management, Steve has planned, developed, and implemented effective and profitable strategic sales programs for a variety of enterprise software companies such as RSA Security, Network Chemistry, and Sana Security where he held position of executive vice president of worldwide sales and alliances. Steve has a proven track record of success in providing market acceleration of over 300% in revenue and over 60% in customer adoption at all of his ventures dating back to RSA where the company grew from less than $15 million to more than $250 million during his tenure. Most recently he was executive vice president of sales and business development at Network Chemistry. PostPath is funded by Matrix Partners, JAFCO Ventures, and Worldview Technology Partners.

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Transparency Software, provider of information policy management solutions for security, auditing and compliance, today announced Linda Giampa as chief executive officer. Linda Giampa is a proven leader in enterprise software, with executive experience in sales, marketing and business development at leading database, networking and application monitoring companies. Prior to joining Transparency, Linda was an officer and VP of Worldwide Field Operations for Versata, a provider of software automation and management solutions for data-intensive applications. She ran her own executive consulting business helping companies bring emerging technologies to market. Her clients included TIBCO Software, Keynote Systems, Interwoven and Ejasent Software (purchased by Veritas). Linda also served as vice president of worldwide sales and services for Optimal Networks (purchased by Compuware). She ran North America sales for Pure Software from initial startup to IPO. Transparency Software is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Pitango Venture Capital.

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Tizor, the leading provider of data auditing and protection solutions, today announced that Joel Rosen has been named president and CEO. A technology industry veteran who has grown two previous companies to over $100 million in revenue, Rosen will lead the continued expansion of Tizor. Rosen previously served as president and CEO of Navisite, where he led the company through an initial public offering, grew revenue tenfold to $100 million, and oversaw the delivery of services which were backed by industry-leading service level agreements. Previously, Rosen spent 10 years at Aspen Technology, where he played a key role in defining and executing the strategy that grew revenues profitably from $6 million to $250 million, and that led to Aspen’s becoming the clear market leader in its space. Rosen was also part of the core executive team that brought Aspen public. Most recently, he was a venture partner with Charles River Ventures. Tizor is funded by Hummer Winblad, Masthead Ventures, Longworth Venture Partners, Navigator Technology Ventures, and Common Angels.

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Tumbleweed Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), a leading provider of email security, managed file transfer, and identity validation appliance and software products , announced today the appointment of Jim Flatley as executive vice president of worldwide sales. Mr. Flatley most recently served as the executive vice president of sales, services & marketing at Network General Corporation. He has held executive sales positions at Aspect Communications, Plumtree Software, Siebel, and AT&T, after starting his career at IBM.

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Adaptive Planning, the industry leader in collaborative performance management solutions, today named Neil Thomas as Vice President of Sales. Having most recently served as a sales executive for Cognos, Thomas brings more than two decades of sales and management experience to his new role, as well as deep domain expertise in business intelligence, budgeting and forecasting, and financial management. At Cognos, Thomas led the region that generated the company's strongest sales growth, delivering nine successive quarters of year-on-year growth. Prior to his tenure at Cognos, Thomas held Area Vice President of Sales, Area Vice President of Channels, and General Manager positions at Adaytum, a market-creating budgeting and planning vendor that was acquired by Cognos in 2003. He joined Adaytum as one of the original team in 1996 and played a key role in driving the company's growth from $1 million to $61 million in revenue. Adaptive Planning is backed by Cardinal Venture Capital, ONSET Ventures, and Monitor Ventures.

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Bridgestream, Inc., the leading provider of business roles automation solutions, today announced the appointment of Ed Jackowiak as vice president of sales. Jackowiak is a seasoned sales executive with over 17 years of experience building successful sales organizations in the identity management market. Most recently, he served as vice president of worldwide sales at Avatier where he was instrumental in building the company's U.S., EMEA and Asia Pacific sales and distribution channels. As vice president of worldwide sales at Kavado (now Protegrity), he increased revenue by 100 percent and signed up global customers. Jackowiak also served as Netegrity's vice president of sales responsible for commercial and channel sales, engineering and consulting, totaling more than 45 employees. Within three years, he grew revenue from less than $250,000 to $35 million and helped establish Netegrity as a dominant player in the fast-growing Internet security space. Bridgestream is funded by ArrowPath Venture Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, and Outlook Ventures.

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SpikeSource, a provider of business-ready open source solutions, announces today that David Cassady joins the company as the executive vice president of operations. In this role, Cassady will head up worldwide sales and field operations. As the executive vice president of operations, Cassady will manage SpikeSource's worldwide sales teams and all customer-facing operations. SpikeSource has operations on three continents and a steadily-growing channel sales organization specialized in sales and services for open source solutions. Prior to joining SpikeSource, Cassady was the senior vice president of Global Operations for Virsa Inc. While with Virsa, Cassady was instrumental in creating the phenomenal sales growth that resulted in the recent and successful acquisition of Virsa by SAP. SpikeSource is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Fidelity Ventures, and Intel Capital.

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XenSource, the world's leading provider of Open Source server virtualization, today announced that Tony Tyson has joined the company as Vice President of Strategic Business Development. Tony joined XenSource from virtualization market leader, VMWare, where he served as the Director of Worldwide Enterprise Desktop Sales.

Prior to joining VMWare in 2005, Tyson spent time at F5 Networks, Netscape, Lotus Development and IBM in OEM sales, Business Development, Security Sales. Prior to kicking off his sales career, Tony also served as the 1st employee and principal engineer at Intuit, where he personally developed Quicken 1.0 for the company.

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Arcot Systems, provider of secure e-payment, credential management, strong authentication, and digital signing software solutions for financial services, bio-pharmaceutical, and other security-conscious enterprises, today announced Carol Stone as vice president of marketing. Ms. Stone has several years experience in the security industry including five years as vice president worldwide marketing with Check Point Software Technologies. Among Arcot’s investors are Accel Partners, Adobe Ventures, Goldman Sachs, INVESCO Private Capital, Onset Ventures, Raza Ventures, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), Wachovia, and VISA International.

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Kalido, a leading provider of information management solutions, has named William M. Hewitt president and chief executive officer. Hewitt, 46, will lead the strategic direction and operations of Kalido worldwide. Hewitt, who was most recently president, Asia Pacific for Novell, brings more than 20 years of experience in management and leadership roles at some of the most respected software, hardware and services companies. Hewitt will also join Kalido's board of directors and is based at Kalido headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts. Prior to Novell, Hewitt served in executive positions at market leading companies, including group vice president of industry solutions at PeopleSoft, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Brigade Corporation, and senior vice president of marketing for ProBusiness Services. Kalido is funded by Atlas Ventures, Benchmark Capital, and Matrix Partners.

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Intacct, provider of on-demand financial management system applications for more than 2,000 small and midsize businesses, today announced Bert Rankin as vice president of marketing. NEED BIO. Intacct is backed by Deloitte and Touche, Emergence Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs, Hummer Winblad Venture Parters, and JK&B Capital.

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Astoria Software, leading developer of content management systems for dynamic product product documentation, today announced Dan Ortega as vice president of marketing. Dan brings over 22 years of technology marketing experience to this position, having previously served as VP of Marketing for a series of successful start-ups, including content management companies such as Metacode Technologies (acquired by Interwoven). Dan has also held senior level international marketing positions with expansion stage companies such as Centigram Communications, and Fortune 500 companies including Sun Microsystems and Wang Labs. Astoria Software is funded by Prism Ventures, The Goldman Sachs Group, Blueprint Ventures, Asia Pacific Technology Partners, Crystal Ventures, and Ticonderoga Capital.

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Ketera, the leading provider of On Demand Spend Management solutions, today named industry veteran, Burton M. Goldfield, as the company's new chief executive officer. Goldfield, 50, was appointed to the executive leadership role in an effort to scale the company's business leadership to match its explosive growth momentum. Goldfield brings to Ketera more than 25 years of sales and operational leadership experience and technology management, most recently serving as senior vice president, worldwide field operations at Hyperion Solutions Corporation. Prior to Hyperion, Goldfield came from IBM Corporation where he was vice president of worldwide sales for the Rational software brand, leading the global direct and indirect sales, consulting and field operations organizations. Prior to Rational being acquired by IBM, Goldfield led the growth from a $25 million dollar company to one generating more than $700 million in annual revenues. Ketera is funded by American Express, Emergence Capital Partners, Foundation Capital, Integral Capital Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers.

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Tumbleweed Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), a leading provider of email security, managed file transfer, and identity validation appliance and software products , announced today that Daniel Greenberg has joined the company as chief marketing officer. In his new role, Greenberg will be responsible for leading Tumbleweed’s global marketing efforts. Greenberg brings nearly two decades of leadership experience in branding, marketing, and delivering world class products to market. Prior to joining Tumbleweed, Greenberg was vice president of worldwide marketing and product management at Macrovision’s software technology group. Before Macrovision, Greenberg was a founder and vice president of marketing and product management at Active Decisions and before that he was vice president global marketing for ACNielsen.

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Permabit Inc., whose software preserves data for compliance with government regulations and for medical records, has added Jeff Edwards as their new vice president of worldwide sales. Edwards will be responsible for expanding and managing the company's domestic and international channel sales force and developing reseller partnerships. Previously, Edwards was vice president of sales for Copan Systems Inc. and vice president of worldwide sales at Nishan Systems Inc. Permabit is backed by Baker Capital and Global Strategic Investment Fund.

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Data Domain Inc., a provider of enterprise data protection hardware and software, has named Beth White vice president of marketing. In her new role, White will direct corporate, product and channel marketing as well as marketing communications. Prior to joining Data Domain, White served as vice president of corporate marketing at Aarohi Communications Inc., an intelligent storage component provider. Before that she was vice president of worldwide marketing at Vixel Corp., a storage switch company, which was later acquired by Emulex Corp. Among Data Domain’s investors are Greylock Partners, New Enterprise Associates, and Sutter Hill Ventures.

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MessageOne, the fastest growing business continuity company, today announced that Tod Klubnik has joined the firm as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations. In his new role, Mr. Klubnik leads MessageOne’s sales, channels, pre-sales, business development, and account management teams, including overseeing its North American and European operations. Mr. Klubnik brings 18 years of industry experience in executive sales, channels and operations management. Prior to MessageOne, Mr. Klubnik was Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development for PlanView, a leading provider of IT Portfolio Management software. During his tenure, he expanded substantially the sales organization, grew revenues significantly, and forged strategic partnerships with EMC, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, BMC-Remedy, and Keane. He previously served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development for Zilliant, where he built the company’s direct and channel sales teams and established the company as the revenue and customer leader in the pricing optimization software space. Before Zilliant, Mr. Klubnik spent six years with PTC, during which the company grew from $130 million to over $1 billion in annual revenues. Messageone is funded by Venrock Associates, Blue Chip Venture Company, Impact Venture Partners, QuestMark Partners, RRE Ventures, and Starvest Partners.

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Blazent, the leader in IT business intelligence (BI), today announced Ed Forker as their new senior vice president of worldwide sales. Forker will lead the expansion and execution of Blazent's global sales strategy, including channel development and segment penetration. Ed Forker joins Blazent from EMC, as the senior vice president of worldwide sales for the SMARTS division, which sold and supported over 300 Fortune 500 enterprise and service provider customers. In four years, he grew SMARTS revenue from $15 million to $71 million, achieving 16 consecutive profitable quarters. Prior to SMARTS, he held executive leadership positions at Metromedia Fiber Network, Lucent Technologies, Cidco, BayNetworks, Digital Equipment Corporation, Citibank and AT&T. Blazent is backed by Bain Capital, Benchmark Capital, Keynote Ventures, Pequot Capital, and StarVest Partners.

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SANRAD, provider of SAN connectivity and management, today announced Dave Dupont as vice president of marketing. Before joining SANRAD, Dave was senior vice president of sales and marketing at Plasmon, the leader in professional optical storage. In this role he completely revamped the organization's sales strategy and organization, successfully establishing Plasmon's blue laser-based Ultra Density Optical technology as the new professional optical storage standard.  Dave has also served as vice president, marketing and business development at Lefthand Networks, a provider of clustered iSCSI array solutions, and led Dell Computer Corporation's North American Precision Workstation business.  Earlier in his career, Dave was with the Hewlett-Packard Company, where he served in a variety of increasingly responsible marketing management roles in the company's PC and UNIX systems businesses. SANRAD is backed by Sequoia Capital and Foundation Capital.

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OutlookSoft Corp., a provider of enterprise performance management software, named Ben Plummer to the newly created position of chief marketing officer. Plummer previously worked at Cognos for the past 13 years, most recently as vice president of global partner operations. He has also held positions as senior vice president of marketing for Convera, a search and content management technology provider, and executive vice president and co-founder at Clareos, a high volume OLAP engine software company. OutlookSoft is backed by Greylock Partners, Battery Ventures, and Pequot Capital.

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Adaptive Planning, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand budgeting, forecasting and reporting applications, today announced it has named William A. Soward as chief executive officer. Soward brings 25 years of experience in management at technology companies and in operational finance roles. Most recently, Soward was general manager of FRS, a business unit of S1 Corporation providing financial institutions worldwide with enterprise risk and regulatory compliance solutions. At S1, Soward transformed FRS into S1's most successful business unit, more than doubling revenues while building profitable and sustainable customer relationships with global financial institutions. Additionally, as a member of S1's executive team, Soward spearheaded the build-out of S1's European operations and served as interim CEO of S1 Europe as well as S1's Edify business unit. He also held a variety of management roles at Edify Corporation prior to its acquisition by S1, and played an instrumental role in that company's acquisition by S1. Adaptive Planning is funded by Cardinal Venture Capital, ONSET Ventures, and Monitor Ventures.

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Verid, a leading provider of Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA) services announced today the appointment of Iain Kerr as its Senior Vice President of Sales. Kerr has more than 25 years experience in sales, marketing and general management, both with start-up and public companies in the application and security software. Prior to joining Verid, he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Sygate Technologies, a security software company acquired by Symantec in October 2005. Iain previously served as President and CEO of Vista Software Solutions (VSS), COO for Norkom Technologies and spent 14 years at Hyperion Solutions, where he held numerous senior sales management positions, including that of group vice president for its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) division. Verid is funded by C/max Capital, CIBC Capital Partners, EMC Corporation, and Fidelity Ventures.

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Voyence^TM, the leading provider of Automated Change and Configuration Management (ACCM) solutions, today announced the appointment of Darren Orzechowski as vice president of marketing. Orzechowski will manage worldwide marketing activities, including product marketing and management, marketing communications, sales support, demand generation, channel marketing and public relations. Prior to Voyence, Orzechowski was vice president of marketing at Smarts, a leading provider of automated service assurance solutions, where his marketing efforts contributed to significant revenue growth, several new product launches, partner and channel marketing programs, and new customer accounts. As vice president of marketing, he was instrumental in creating marketing programs that differentiated the company in an extremely competitive and consolidating market. Smarts was sold to EMC earlier this year. Prior to joining Smarts, Orzechowski served as vice president of marketing for Aprisma Management Technologies, where he successfully branded and launched the Cabletron Systems spinout. Voyence is funded by CenterPoint, Canaan Partners, Interwest, and Sevin Rosen Funds.

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ArcSight, Inc., the global leader in Enterprise Security Management (ESM) software, today announced the expansion of its executive team with the appointment of Haiyan Song as vice president of engineering. Haiyan Song brings strong enterprise software and security experience to her role as vice president of engineering at ArcSight. Song joins ArcSight after having served as vice president of engineering at SenSage, where she oversaw product and solution development. Previous to that, she served as vice president of engineering and support at Omniva Policy Systems, a leading provider of secure messaging solution, now part of Liquid Machines. She has led engineering organizations at various enterprise software and service providers including Allegis, Ketera Technology and Informix, where she served as executive director for the company's system management product division and led the development of trusted RDBMS server products. . ArcSight is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, New Enterprise Associates, Silicon Valley Internet Capital, Presidio, Institutional Venture Partners, and Integral Capital Partners.

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Mendocino Software, the recovery management company, today announced it has appointed Mike Heald to the position of vice president, worldwide sales and support. In this newly created position, Heald will be responsible for the success of Mendocino’s network of trusted supplier distribution partners as well as its service and support infrastructure. Heald joins Mendocino from high-performance computing file system vendor Panasas, Inc., where he was vice president of worldwide sales and support. Heald will report directly to Steve Colman, president and CEO of Mendocino Software. Mendocino Software is backed by Accel Partners, Advent International, Foundation Capital, and Mayfield.

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Savvion, leader and pioneer in business process management (BPM) software and services, today announced Patrick Morrissey as vice president of marketing. Morrissey will be responsible for all aspects of marketing at Savvion including the development of the company's brand and marketing strategy, corporate communications, product, field and customer marketing. With over 15 years experience in marketing, Morrissey most recently served as vice president of marketing for planning and enterprise performance management (EPM) at Business Objects. Durin