Actuate Appoints General Counsel and VP of Corporate Development; Former Senior Counsel for Sun Microsystems Joins Actuate.SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO South San Francisco, city (1990 pop. 54,312), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1908. South San Francisco has several industrial parks; its manufactures include medical supplies and equipment, foods, paint, paper products, consumer goods, and clothing. , Calif. -- Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ACTU ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions ACTU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri) ACTU Association of Catholic Trade Unionists ACTU Australian Capital Territory Union ), the world leader in Enterprise Reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. and Performance Management Applications that empower 100% of users to achieve breakthrough corporate performance, today announced that Thomas McKeever has joined the company as General Counsel and Vice President of Corporate Development. Mr. McKeever will report to Daniel Gaudreau, Senior Vice President, Operations and CFO See Chief Financial Officer. of Actuate, and will be responsible for evaluating corporate development opportunities and building partnerships and alliances in addition to providing legal counsel to the company. Mr. McKeever brings more than 12 years of corporate representation, negotiation and relationship management experience to Actuate. Most recently, he was Senior Counsel in the Products and Technology Law Group at Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc. where his responsibilities included participation in the acquisition of StorageTek and providing counseling on licensing and intellectual property arrangements including software licensing agreements, prototyping, operations and manufacturing agreements and open-source licensing. Prior to working at Sun, Mr. McKeever provided general corporate representation at Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol where his responsibilities included formation and governance of entities, and merger and asset purchase transactions including OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreements. Mr. McKeever has held other positions as an attorney at Bay Venture Counsel (now part of Reed Smith), Heller Ehrman Heller Ehrman LLP is an international law firm of more than 700 attorneys working across 13 offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia.[2] Heller Ehrman was founded in San Francisco in 1890 and has additional offices located in most of the major financial centers White & McAuliffe, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He also clerked for the Honorable Lawrence T. Lydick of the United States District Court United States District Court In the U.S., any of the 94 trial courts of general jurisdiction in the federal judicial system. Each state, as well as the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, has at least one federal district court. for the Central District of California. Mr. McKeever earned his Bachelor's degree in Political Economy from the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. and received his law degree from Stanford University Law School. "Tom has a unique blend of legal ability combined with an expertise in evaluating the benefits of new strategic partnerships and alliances," said Dan Gaudreau, Actuate's CFO and Vice President of Operations. "Actuate is currently well-positioned within the evolving Business Intelligence market. Tom's expertise will be invaluable to the company at a time when Business Intelligence and Performance Management technologies are converging and open source is gaining traction within large enterprises." "Actuate is an innovative company with impressive industry firsts such as Actuate BIRT, a commercial cousin to open-source Eclipse BIRT," said Mr. McKeever. "I look forward to contributing to Actuate's legacy and participating in catapulting the company forward into an accelerated pattern of growth during this exciting time when business intelligence tools and performance management tools are merging into the new provocative category of 'BI-PM'." About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation is the world leader in Enterprise Reporting and Performance Management Applications that empower 100% of users to achieve breakthrough corporate performance. Actuate provides the most scalable, reliable, flexible and high-performing reporting capabilities for every application in the enterprise. Customers use Actuate to deliver information in context to users inside and outside the firewall as Performance Management and Customer Self-Service applications, managed spreadsheet applications and Java reporting applications. Actuate has over 3,500 customers globally in a range of industries including banking, insurance, manufacturing, communications, and government. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, Calif., with offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol ACTU. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's Web site at www.actuate.com . Copyright(C) 2006 Actuate Corporation. All rights reserved. Actuate and the Actuate logo are registered trademarks of Actuate Corporation and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other countries. 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