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CREDANT Technologies Names Darryll E. Dewan Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations

Posted on: Monday, 25 June 2007, 09:05 CDT

DALLAS, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- CREDANT Technologies(R), the market leader in mobile data protection solutions, today announced it has appointed Darryll E. Dewan as executive vice president of worldwide sales and field operations. In his role, Dewan will guide CREDANT technologies' global sales force and all field operations. He will be responsible for the development and support of direct and partner sales strategies and building customer value.

Dewan brings more than 27 years experience providing technology solutions to global enterprises and government agencies. He was most recently President and executive officer of SourceForge Enterprise Software, a division of VA Software. Dewan has been successful in developing high growth organizations demonstrated most recently at SourceForge, a leading open source media and software company, where he grew the business 500% over 3 years. He has an excellent track record in helping customers achieve tremendous value from the use of leading edge technology.

During his career, Dewan served as the Executive VP and President of strategic accounts and channels at i2 Technologies and was general manager of North America for Amdahl Corporation. He also held sales management positions with Oracle and Legent Corporation. Darryll began his career with IBM upon graduation from the University of Notre Dame. While at IBM he held sales and sales management positions for multiple industry segments.

"Darryll is an invaluable addition to CREDANT and an important new team member as we accelerate our growth to fulfill growing customer demand," said Bob Heard, CREDANT founder and CEO. "Darryll brings executive management expertise obtained from some of the leading firms in the software industry and I'm happy that he has joined the CREDANT Technologies' team."

"CREDANT Mobile Guardian provides a unique state of the art approach to managing and protecting data residing on all things mobile, an ever-growing need as the workforce becomes more mobilized, said Darryll Dewan, CREDANT executive vice president of worldwide sales and field operations. "I look forward to working closely with our customers and dedicated CREDANT team to accelerate the adoption and deployment of our technology within leading edge global companies who are rapidly addressing this important mobile security challenge."

About CREDANT Technologies

CREDANT(R) Technologies is the market leader in mobile data protection solutions. CREDANT's secure mobility solutions preserve customer brand and reduce the cost of compliance, enabling business processes to quickly and safely "go mobile." CREDANT Mobile Guardian is the only centrally managed mobile data protection solution that provides strong authentication, intelligent encryption, usage controls, and key management that guarantees data recovery. By aligning security to the type of user, device and location, CREDANT ensures the audit and enforcement of security policies across all mobile end-points. Strategic partners and customers include leaders in finance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology, and services. CREDANT was selected by Red Herring as one of the top 100 privately held companies and top 100 Innovators for 2004, and was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2005. Austin Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, Intel Capital and Cisco Systems are investors in CREDANT Technologies. For more information, visit http://www.credant.com/.

CREDANT Technologies

CONTACT: Mary Van Zandt, CREDANT Technologies, +1-972-458-5408,mvanzandt@Credant.com, or Karin Taylor, Trainer for CREDANT Technologies,+1-408-979-0891, karint@trainercomm.com

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

Source: PRNewswire

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