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San Jose, CA Nov. 28, 2007 Engate Technology Corporation, a leading anti-spamsupplier and pioneer of next generation network profiling and connection managementsecurity solutions, today announced the appointment of Jim Lawson to its board ofdirectors. With more than 35 years of experience in the technology industry, JimLawson s extensive background in sales, marketing, and business development willprovide strategic depth to Engate s Board of Directors.
We are extremely pleased to welcome Jim Lawson to Engate s Board of Directors, said Wil Cochran, President and CEO, Engate Technology Corporation. Jim sexperience in enterprise and service provider markets, as well as, his leadershipskills and governance acumen will greatly assist the next phase of Engate sstrategic growth.
Jim Lawson is a nationally recognized executive consultant and has previously servedas an advisor of many growing companies, including Agile Software, LatitudeCommunications, Alacritech, One Touch Systems and Alteon Systems. Jim has a longhistory of executive management and entrepreneurial roles in the technologyindustry, including Vice President Sales at Auspex Systems, Vice President Sales atAgile Software, Vice President and General Manager at Stratus Computer IndirectSales Division, Vice President Sales at McDonnell Douglas Computer Systems, VicePresident OEM Sales at SCI Systems, and Vice President Sales at Honeywell Non-ImpactPrinter Division.
This is an exciting time for me to join Engate s Board of Directors. Engate sinnovative technology is delivering a large and lasting impact on themultibillion-dollar email security industry, said Jim Lawson. First generationsecurity products have stagnated as security threats like botnet attacks continue toevolve and become more progressive. Spam and malicious threats are at an all timehigh making the security industry ripe for disruption by Engate s second generationsolution. I look forward to working with Engate and building on the momentum thecompany has today, and positioning the company for long-term growth andprofitability.
About Engate Technology CorporationEngate Technology Corporation is a leading anti-spam supplier and pioneer of nextgeneration network profiling and connection management security solutions forservice providers and enterprises, and can be licensed to anti-spam software,security appliance, router, firewall, and unified threat management vendors. Thecompany s flagship product, Engate MailSentinel , delivers preemptive SMTPconnection level protection against all messaging threats. Engate s NetworkProfiling Connection Management technology may be extensible to other protocols,such as Instant Messaging and Internet Telephony, delivering the best safeguard fortoday s and tomorrow s threats. For more information, contact Engate at775.745.7151, info@engate.com, or visit the company s website at www.engate.com.
