Crossbeam Systems Announces New Vice President of Worldwide Customer Service
Posted on: Monday, 8 May 2006, 09:09 CDT
CONCORD, Mass., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Crossbeam Systems(R), Inc., the leader in unified threat management (UTM) for the world's largest networks, today announced that it has named Charles Young as vice president of worldwide customer service. Young will be responsible for expanding Crossbeam's worldwide customer service organization and setting the strategic direction to support the company's growing list of leading ISV partners.
"Charlie's proven track record in building world-class customer service and support operations for global companies is a perfect complement to the needs of Crossbeam's global 2,000 customers," said Peter George, president and CEO of Crossbeam Systems. "He is a valuable addition to our executive management team and will be pivotal in helping us maintain the high level of satisfaction our customers have come to expect, while enabling us to meet the growing demand for our UTM solutions among enterprise customers and service providers worldwide."
Young brings to Crossbeam more than 20 years of experience in senior executive positions providing strategic counsel, implementation and support of customer service organizations within the IT industry. Before joining Crossbeam, Young served as the regional solutions director at Dell Corporation, a high growth strategic business aimed at providing a combination of enterprise-class services and server/storage products to support the needs of larger customers. In this position, Young was responsible for managing eight countries and more than 100 people to develop a multi-million dollar business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Young also served two years as president and four years as the worldwide sales and marketing director for Nexpress USA, a distributor of Sun and HP authorized refurbished server products in the U.S. Prior to that, he held a number of senior management roles at Compaq/Digital Equipment Corporation, most recently as the worldwide strategic services director, overseeing the company's mission-critical services business to drive worldwide growth of its customer service division.
"Crossbeam presents the opportunity to work with the leader in UTM, redefining the network security space with a new kind of virtualized security architecture," said Young. "I'm excited to be a part of this team helping Crossbeam expand services and support for its ISV partners and a rapidly growing customer base."
Crossbeam Systems X-Series and C-Series equipment deliver flexible, high- scaling network security in perimeter, core and data center architectures. By consolidating up to 20 security devices down to a single, multi-function UTM platform, organizations have the flexibility to provision and layer security across their networks as needed to protect critical assets against the most sophisticated and blended attacks.
Through partnerships with companies including Check Point, Enterasys, Forum Systems, Imperva, Sourcefire, Trend Micro and Websense, Crossbeam offers best-of-breed applications to end-users that cater to their specific security needs, providing a new generation of virtualized services such as firewall, VPN and intrusion prevention from leading vendors.
About Crossbeam Systems
Crossbeam Systems secures the world's largest networks with its pioneering best-of-breed Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions. The company has tailored security solutions for global corporations, carrier networks and small to medium-sized enterprises. Founded in early 2000 and led by senior executives from Bay Networks, Cisco, Nortel/Wellfleet and Alcatel, Crossbeam is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts, USA, and has offices in Europe and Asia Pacific. The company is backed by top-tier investors, including Focus Ventures, Tudor Ventures, Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Commonwealth Capital Venture Partners, Intel Capital and Charles River Ventures. More information is available at http://www.crossbeamsystems.com/.
Crossbeam Systems and Crossbeam are registered trademarks of Crossbeam Systems, Inc. All other company, product or service names not owned by Crossbeam mentioned in this press release are the property of their respective owners.
Contact: Throop Wilder Brian Greehan Crossbeam Systems Davies Murphy Group, Inc. (978) 318-7524 (781) 418-2414 throop@crossbeamsystems.com bgreehan@daviesmurphy.com http://www.crossbeamsystems.com/ http://www.daviesmurphy.com/
Crossbeam Systems, Inc.
CONTACT: Throop Wilder of Crossbeam Systems, +1-978-318-7524,throop@crossbeamsystems.com; or Brian Greehan of Davies Murphy Group, Inc.,+1-781-418-2414, bgreehan@daviesmurphy.com
Web site: http://www.crossbeamsystems.com/
Source: PRNewswire
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