AttachSTOR Inc. Announces the Hiring of Timothy A. Wudi as President and CEO; AttachSTOR Names Software-Industry Veteran to Lead Company Into Growth Phase.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 2003 AttachSTOR Inc., a leading provider of attachment management technology and e-mail resource management solutions, today announced that they have hired software industry veteran Timothy A. Wudi as the company's new president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . In joining AttachSTOR, Wudi brings to the company 22 years of sales, management, and executive leadership experience -- much of it focused in the enterprise software and messaging markets where AttachSTOR competes. Having lead companies and large divisions through periods of rapid growth and progress, Wudi has extensive sales channel, business development, and financial management experience. Prior to this appointment, Wudi was president and COO of Sound Advantage, a developer of voice-recognition software for communication and messaging. At Sound Advantage, Wudi was instrumental in migrating the company into new channels and market segments and focusing the organization on its core voice recognition and unified messaging strengths. Other highlights of Wudi's career include his position as president of the CTI (Computer Telephone Integration) Combining data with voice systems in order to enhance telephone services. For example, automatic number identification (ANI) allows a caller's records to be retrieved from the database while the call is routed to the appropriate party. Software Group of Captaris Inc. (formerly AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. Corp. (Nasdaq:CAPA CAPA California Alternate Performance Assessment CAPA Captaris, Inc (stock symbol) CAPA Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants CAPA Creative and Performing Arts (school) )). During his 10 years at Captaris, Wudi was responsible for much of the growth that the company experienced as it moved from a privately held voice messaging integrator to a global, unified communications leader with revenues that topped $130 million during his tenure. He oversaw the development of relationships with major industry players including Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), Fujitsu Business Systems, and IBM/Lotus Development Corp. (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) ). He also managed the company's expansion into new channels and markets. Prior to Captaris, Wudi held senior positions with VMX VMX Virtual Machine eXtensions VMX Vintage Motocross VMX Voice Message Exchange VMX Vme Memory Extension Bus Corp., Genesis Telecomm, and was the founder of Wolverine wolverine or glutton, largest member of the weasel family, Gulo gulo, found in the northern parts of North America and Eurasia, usually in high mountains near the timberline or in tundra. Telecom. Wudi is a certified public accountant Certified Public Accountant (CPA) An accountant who has met certain standards, including experience, age, and licensing, and passed exams in a particular state. and began his career with Coopers & Lybrand. Commenting on the hiring of Wudi, Pat Sullivan, creator of ACT!(R) Software and SalesLogix(R), and chairman of AttachSTOR's board of directors, stated, "In Tim, we have found a strong leader with highly related experienced to move AttachSTOR into its market growth and expansion stage. Tim's proven skills, sales channel experience, and successful track record in driving companies to significant market growth, makes him a great fit with our company." Commenting on his new position, Wudi stated, "I see AttachSTOR as a company that has solutions that will change the cost structure, security and management tenets of e-mail and corporate data storage. Our technology solves a major e-mail storage problem, it's easy to understand and implement, and the hard-dollar cost savings will be attractive to every CFO See Chief Financial Officer. . I am energized by the opportunity to join a company with such strong assets and such a bright future in the storage market. Near-term, I plan on building out the remainder of the management team and focusing our efforts on driving the company's recently released AttachSTOR(R) product into the market. Overall, I look forward to employing my abilities and experience to help fuel the company's growth." AttachSTOR co-founders Gary Legner and Jim Parker will remain with the company in senior positions as vice president of marketing and vice president of engineering, respectively. About AttachSTOR Inc. Founded in 2001, AttachSTOR is an enterprise-level software vendor that is first in attachment management and e-mail resource management solutions. The company has developed patent-pending technology that targets the No. 1 problem for e-mail systems -- attachments. The AttachSTOR solution can reduce the total cost of ownership for corporate e-mail systems by 25-40%, annually. AttachSTOR maintains a site on the World Wide Web at www.attachstor.com. AttachSTOR is a registered trademark of AttachSTOR Inc. 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