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FireEye Appoints David Butler As Vice President of Sales and Business Development

Posted on: Tuesday, 7 November 2006, 06:01 CST

MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- FireEye, Inc., the leader in network malware control solutions, today announced that it has appointed David Butler as vice president of sales and business development. In this position, Butler will oversee FireEye's sales efforts as the company continues to expand its reach geographically and penetrate new vertical markets.

Butler brings more than 20 years of experience to his new role, including senior management positions with Aruba Networks, FORE Systems, IBM, Inktomi, and Network Systems Corporation. Prior to joining FireEye, Butler served as vice president of worldwide sales and business development for Aruba Networks, where he was responsible for sales growth from zero to well over $100 million per year, and contributed to tripling the company's valuation annually, in less than three years.

Prior to Aruba, Butler was vice president of media sales and channel sales at Inktomi (acquired by Yahoo!) and was responsible for the company's outbound strategy in Internet streaming. At Fore Systems, Butler served as vice president of international sales, where he was responsible for all aspects of international sales operations, growing international revenues from $13 million to more than $120 million in a two-year period. At FORE, Butler also headed the company's federal business division growing sales 600 percent.

"Dave has extensive experience and demonstrable success in building high- growth sales organizations and value-added worldwide channels for technology companies," said Ashar Aziz, founder and CEO of FireEye. "We are fortunate to have him on our team as we look ahead toward accelerating our growth and market penetration."

"FireEye is uniquely positioned to help organizations eradicate malware from company networks with a solution that is simple to deploy and manage," said Butler. "I'm excited to become an integral part of the company's future growth."

Butler has a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.

About FireEye, Inc.

FireEye, Inc. is a pioneer in network malware control, leveraging patent- pending virtualization technology within a network appliance to definitively confirm malicious network traffic in an instrumented virtual environment. The result is an appliance-based approach that provides the most accurate, effortless malware detection and containment solution available. FireEye's advanced technology provides impregnable and streamlined security operations by stopping known and targeted malware seeking to compromise customer data, steal intellectual property, and exploit your network resources. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, FireEye is funded by Norwest Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. For more information, call (650) 543-1600, email info@fireeye.com or visit the FireEye Web site at http://www.fireeye.com/.

NOTE: FireEye is a trademark of FireEye, Inc. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

Contact Agency: Contact Company: Marc Gendron Elizabeth Hernandez-Jones Trainer Communications FireEye, Inc. 559-228-8424 650-543-1863 fe@trainercomm.com elizabeth@fireeye.com

FireEye, Inc.

CONTACT: Marc Gendron of Trainer Communications, +1-559-228-8424, orfe@trainercomm.com, for FireEye, Inc.; or Elizabeth Hernandez-Jones ofFireEye, Inc., +1-650-543-1863, or elizabeth@fireeye.com

Web site: http://www.fireeye.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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