SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group and the Southern African Enterprise Partner for eEye Digital Security, today announced multiple changes in the latter's executive management team in order to position the company for future growth. Ross Brown, who joined eEye in September as the company's COO, moved into the CEO role in June, while co-founder and chief hacking officer Marc Maiffret has added the CTO title. Former CEO and CTO Firas Bushnaq, who assumes the role of chairman for eEye's board of directors, will remain deeply involved with the company he co-founded.
Brown is also announcing the appointment of Kamal Arafeh as senior VP of worldwide sales and marketing, who will be responsible for eEye's global sales and marketing operations and expanding the company's channel programme, while maintaining the exceptional service levels eEye's customers currently enjoy.
"Kamal brings years of solid experience in sales and channel activities and is an ideal complement to our strong management team," commented Brown. "We have aggressive growth plans and his expertise will be invaluable as we continue to set new standards in enterprise security innovation for our partners and our customers."
Arafeh brings more than 18 years of extensive experience in building sales distribution channels and developing business partnerships, and has built a reputation for leading high-growth sales organisations into new markets in the software, hardware and services industries. He most recently was with Astaro, a network security company, where he was responsible for all aspects of operations in the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions. In addition, Kamal was responsible for reconfiguring the company's sales and marketing strategy, attracting and managing a first class sales team, directly resulting in over 200% growth annually.
He has also served as VP of worldwide sales at Vernier Networks, a wireless security company. Prior to his role at Vernier, Arafeh held an executive position in sales and marketing at McAfee/Network Associates, where he grew its channel sales operations 200% over a four-year period. He has also held management positions at Roxio, Netcentives and Texas Instruments.
"eEye is in an excellent position as the security industry's leading risk management company," added Arafeh. "Its world-class research, which complements its award-winning product line, addresses today's most pressing needs in enterprise security. I look forward to working with eEye's extensive list of Fortune 500 customers and channel partners to assist the company's increasing global presence and market momentum."
Brown, who has led the company's day-to-day operations over the last year, has sharpened eEye's focus on the channel and has expanded the company's global sales and field operations to accelerate eEye's already considerable momentum in both new and established markets. Maiffret, who co-founded eEye and originally coined the title chief hacking officer, is adding the CTO designation to formalize his role in leading eEye's product development and vulnerability research efforts.
"Ross has shown over and over again that he possesses the attributes needed to successfully capitalise on the increasing momentum eEye has built globally, as well as to position our solutions in the market as customer needs have changed with the evolving threat landscape," Bushnaq said of Brown, while adding, "Marc and I have worked together for years to grow our vision of securing enterprise networks and his genius in leveraging research toward product innovation is what makes our company a proven success."
For further information, please contact Willem Barnard at tel. (011) 257 8600; fax (011) 257 8699; e-mail willemb@securedata.co.za
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eEye Digital Security is a leading developer of network security software, and the foremost contributor to security research and education. eEye's award-winning software products provide a complete vulnerability management solution that addresses the full lifecycle of security threats: before, during and after attacks. eEye protects the networks and digital assets of more than 8 400 corporate and government deployments worldwide, including Avon, Citigroup, Continental Airlines, The US Department of Defense, Dow Jones, Prudential, University of Miami, Viacom, Vodafone, Warner Music and Wyeth. Founded in 1998, eEye Digital Security is a privately held, venture-backed firm with headquarters in Orange County, California. For more information, please go to www.eEye.com.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's Premier IT Security Solution Provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate Antivirus and Content Security, Endpoint Security, Network Security, Intrusion Prevention and Authentication & Identity Management. SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, vulnerability assessment, out sourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs. As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the Sub-Saharan African distributor for USA-based TippingPoint Technologies as well as for AirDefense, Application Security, eEye, Network Engines, Precise Biometrics, Rocket Software, RSA Security, St Bernard and Websense. For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment. For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za
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