AccuRev, Inc. Continues to Attract Key Executives from Market Leader Atria / Rational Software --NasdaqNM:RATL--.Business/Technology Editors BROOKLINE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 2002 AccuRev, Inc. today announced that David Leblang, the co-founder and former Chief Technical Officer of Atria Atria The heart has four chambers. The right and left atria are at the top of the heart and receive returning blood from the veins. The right and left ventricles are at the bottom of the heart and act as the body's main pumps. Software has joined AccuRev as Technical Advisor. Mr. Leblang brings considerable knowledge and pertinent industry experience to AccuRev. His technical leadership was instrumental in developing Atria's "ClearCase" product in the early 1990s and growing the company into the leading Configuration Management Software provider within two years. Mr. Leblang comments on his new role. "I am very pleased to join AccuRev and be at the forefront of Configuration Management product development again. AccuRev is uniquely solving the problems inherent in large-scale software projects while providing a powerful and easy to use interface and a conceptually simple development model. Competing products miss the mark either by not solving the hard problems or being too complex for effective use." Previously, Leblang worked for HP, Apollo Computer, and Digital Equipment Corp. He has degrees in computer science from MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and BU, holds five patents in Configuration Management Software related fields, and is a reviewer for IEEE Software. He also co-edits an international research report on the evolution of Configuration Management Software. In welcoming Leblang to the company, AccuRev's president, Semyon Dukach, said, "Dave combines enormous technical insight with experience in bringing several innovative Configuration Management products to market. Our product and company is getting excellent reception from customers as we continue to build momentum towards market leadership. Dave Leblang is a valued addition to the team that is making all of this possible." AccuRev has previously attracted several other key players from Rational Software (formerly Atria Software before being acquired by Rational). Norma McCluskey is AccuRev's Vice-President of Sales. A key member of the original ClearCase sales team, she was responsible for managing direct sales of ClearCase as it rapidly gained market share. She also served as Vice-President of North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Sales for Atria Software / Pure Atria. Prior to joining AccuRev, McCluskey was Director of North American Sales at The MathWorks. Bob Manning is AccuRev's Director of Product Management. He was the first member of the ClearCase Technical Marketing group at Atria Software and served as ClearCase Product Manager. He also provided ClearCase and Configuration Management Software consulting to dozens of customers as a member of the Atria / Rational (Nasdaq:RATL RATL Raising Achievement Transforming Learning (Specialist Schools and Academies Trust) RATL Renaldo and The Loaf (music duo) RATL Rapsyn-Associated Transmembrane Linker RATL Rockin' ATLanta ) sales organization. Before joining Atria, Manning worked for BBN (BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, www.bbn.com) A consulting firm that participated in the development of some of the most extensive networks in the world, including ARPANET, which evolved into the Internet. It was founded in 1948 as a consulting service in acoustics by Dr. Software Products and ATEX ATEX ATmosphere EXplosibles (French: Explosive Atmospheres) ATEX Anti-Terrorism Exercise ATEX ATM Tributary Extension (Tellabs) . John Posner is AccuRev's Director of Publications. He founded the Documentation Group at Atria Software and wrote much of the original documentation for the ClearCase, MultiSite, and ClearGuide products. Before joining Atria, Posner was on the startup teams at Lotus Development and Stellar Computer. He has also been a computer book editor for O'Reilly & Associates. Brad Hart is AccuRev's Director of Sales Engineering. At Rational Software he supported strategic ClearCase sales as a senior sales engineer and served as a high-end ClearCase administration and release-engineering consultant. About AccuRev, Inc. AccuRev is a rapidly growing privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Providing powerful new generation Configuration Management Software products that manage complexity simply and most cost effectively, AccuRev is well positioned to become a new market leader. Customers using AccuRev's Configuration Management products based on novel TimeSafe(tm) technology can now easily guarantee the integrity of their software throughout its lifecycle. Unlike other legacy products, AccuRev's Configuration Management products with integrated issue tracking are remarkably easy to use by developers, administrators and managers and don't require or rely on error prone and costly people intensive manual processes. AccuRev's customers include MCI/WorldCom (NasdaqNM:WCOM WCOM MCI/Worldcom (stock symbol) WCOM Windows Component Object Model WCOM Wireless Communication ), the Gartner Group, IBM/Lotus (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) ), Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT), and Mobile Data Solutions Inc. (NasdaqNM:MDSI MDSI Multiple (Destination) Digital Speech Interpolation MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc. MDSI Mountain Data Systems, Inc (Boise, Idaho) ). |
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