Extreme Networks Appoints Paul Rath to Vice President of Sales for Asia-Pacific and Japan

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Extreme Networks, Inc. today announced that it has appointed Paul Rath to vice president of sales for Asia-Pacific and Japan. Rath brings to Extreme Networks(R) more than twenty five years of sales and executive management experience with leading high technology companies, McData and EMC.

Mr. Rath will lead Extreme Networks sales organization in Asia Pacific and Japan. He has worked extensively throughout Asia with demonstrated successes building sales teams and channel organizations and achieving revenue growth goals in Singapore, China, South Korea and Australia. Extreme Networks provides innovations with network solutions that promote increased intelligence and reliability for both enterprise and service provider customers that are deploying converged voice, video and data.

“Extreme Networks has a long history in Asia-Pacific with enterprise and service provider customers and a well established channel partner infrastructure in the region,” said Helmut Wilke, senior vice president of worldwide sales for Extreme Networks. “Paul Rath brings to Extreme a wide breadth of sales and executive management experience with a track record of positive results throughout Asia, where his unique qualifications will help us to achieve our ambitious growth objectives for the region.”

Mr. Rath will be based in Singapore for Extreme Networks. He previously served as Vice President in Asia-Pacific for McData, a leader in storage networks. During his tenure with McData, Rath consistently led his organization to meet and exceed sales goals, tripling revenue during a three- year period, and also excelled in establishing multiple independent partners in the region. Prior to McData, Mr. Rath served in the position of Managing Director for EMC Asia, where he led direct and indirect sales in Southeast Asia and grew the company’s sales revenue for the region at a rate of 50 percent annually.

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Extreme Networks designs, builds, and installs Ethernet infrastructure solutions that help solve the toughest business communications challenges. The company’s commitment to open networking sets us apart from the alternatives by delivering meaningful insight and unprecedented control to applications and services. Extreme Networks believes that openness is the best foundation for growth, freedom, flexibility and choice. The company’s focus is on enterprises and service providers who demand high performance, converged networks that support voice, video and data over a wired and wireless infrastructure.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including without limitation statements as to fit of products to the marketplace and sales performance are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date. Because such statements deal with future events, they are subject to risks and uncertainties, including network design and actual results of use of the product in different environments. We undertake no obligation to update the forward-looking information in this release. Other important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially are contained in the Company’s 10-Qs and 10-Ks which are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (http://www.sec.gov/).

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