FOSTER CITY, Calif., December 6, 2004 -
Furthering its leadership as the premier provider of solutions that
secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer
(P2P) applications, FaceTime Communications today announced four
key appointments that add more than 50 years of IT and enterprise
security experience to FaceTime's ranks. To help FaceTime
consolidate its market and technological leadership in IM and P2P
security, Michael Lock was named vice president of Sales, Paul
Emery was brought on as vice president of Engineering and Client
Services, Daniel Schrader was appointed director of Product
Marketing, and Scott Kelly assumed the role of senior security
architect. As vice president of Sales, Michael Lock will lead the
sales effort for all of FaceTime's products and services. Mr. Lock
is a 20 year veteran of the technology industry, serving most
recently as senior vice president of Field Operations for Virage,
Inc., an enterprise software company focused on the rich media
management and applications space. During his tenure when he was
responsible for all sales, marketing and professional services
operations for the publicly listed NASDAQ company, which tripled
revenues during his tenure before its successful sale to Autonomy
Corporation. Mr. Lock was previously vice president of Sales and
Marketing for a $300 million dollar unit of Oracle Corporation and
has also held key sales management positions at IBM and Dun &
Bradstreet Software. He is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University
in Waterloo, Ontario where he received a Bachelors degree in
Business Administration. Paul Emery joins FaceTime as vice
president of Engineering and Client Services. With 14 years of
software development and technology management experience, Mr.
Emery will be responsible for leading global product development,
professional services, and customer support activities for FaceTime
Communications. Mr. Emery was most recently vice president of
Engineering at Vignette, where he oversaw all functional
specification, product architecture, and software development
activities for the company's content management and portal products
- running a 300-person engineering organization distributed across
North America, Australia and India. At Epicentric, later acquired
by Vignette, he grew the engineering organization from 20 to 120
employees over an 18-month period. Previously, he served as vice
president and chief technical officer at Webster Management Group,
a financial derivatives investment firm, after founding Automated
Trading Consultants, a provider of portfolio management software.
Prior to his vice president and chief technology officer post at
Perfect Scents, Inc., he held key research and software development
positions at MBZ Corporation and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Emery
holds a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University.
Daniel Schrader brings more than 17 years of software and hardware
product management and marketing experience to the director of
Product Marketing role at FaceTime, particularly in the
security-related fields. Prior to joining FaceTime, Mr. Schrader
was with SafeNet where he built the company's first product
marketing organization and was responsible for marketing secure
communications and digital identity products that generated over
$90 million in annual revenue. Prior to his work at SafeNet, Mr.
Schrader was director of Product Management at Gillian Technology,
a Web site security company. Further enhancing Mr. Schrader's
security expertise is his previous role as chief security analyst
at Trend Micro, where he was responsible for identifying new
security threats and was instrumental in positioning the company as
one of the leaders in the anti-virus and Internet security market.
Prior to TrendMicro, Mr. Schrader was with Computer Associates,
where he managed the company's anti-virus product line, including
InocuLAN and the anti-virus options for ARCserve, Exchange, Notes
and Unicenter. He holds a BA in Economics and History from Columbia
University and an MBA in Marketing from NYU. In the newly created
role of senior security architect, Scott Kelly fills the role of
ensuring that FaceTime's product suite adheres to the strictest
architectural standards for enterprise security. As a principal
engineer at Airespace Inc, Mr. Kelly drove security design and
development for the company's award winning wireless LAN product
suite. As a distinguished engineer at SonicWALL, he was responsible
for architectural analysis of the business' existing firmware
implementation, and for integrating new enterprise security
technologies into the company's product line to allow successful
expansion into the enterprise security market. Additional
experience includes other key engineering roles at RedCreek
Communications, Furukawa Electric Technologies and Forest Computer.
He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Michigan State
University. "Michael Lock and Paul Emery each bring tremendous
talent and experience to the FaceTime team. We are also pleased to
benefit from the deep security expertise brought to the table by
Dan Schrader and Scott Kelly. I warmly welcome each of them," said
FaceTime CEO Kailash Ambwani. "As FaceTime continues to grow and
build on its leadership role in IM and P2P security, we'll continue
to add experienced talent that can help take us to the next
level."
About Actiance, Inc. (Formerly FaceTime Communications, Inc.)
FaceTime Communications became Actiance, Inc on January 11, 2011 following an agreement to
transfer the FaceTime trademark to Apple.
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of Unified Communications and Web 2.0,
including instant messaging, blogs and social networking. Ranked number one by IDC for five consecutive
years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by more than 1,500 customers for the security,
management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships
with all leading IM, unified communications providers and social networks including AOL, Google, Yahoo!,
Skype, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-3223.
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