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CFO David L. Thompson to Remain at Entrust Technologies Inc.


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PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2000

Entrust Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTU), the global leader in solutions that bring trust to e-business, announced today that its Board of Directors has accepted David L. Thompson's request to withdraw his resignation.

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 will remain as the company's senior vice president and chief financial officer.

"We're delighted that Dave has chosen to stay with Entrust," said John Ryan John Ryan can refer to:
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, 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.  of Entrust Technologies. "He has been a key member of our management team and we're pleased that we will continue to benefit from his skills, experience and leadership."

On November 10, Entrust announced that Thompson was resigning to become chief financial officer of a private company. The resignation was to have been effective on November 30, 2000.

"I was offered a great opportunity at an excellent company, but, frankly, the closer I came to actually leaving Entrust, the more I realized that I wanted to continue to be part of this dynamic organization," Thompson said. "Entrust is a world-class corporation, serving rapidly growing markets with a comprehensive suite of award-winning PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of  and authorization solutions. I wish to continue as a key member of the leadership team, working to realize this company's full potential. I'm grateful that John Ryan and the Entrust Board of Directors were supportive of my decision to remain."

About Entrust Technologies Inc.

Entrust Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) is the global leader in solutions that bring trust to e-business relationships by securing and managing the transactions that constitute e-business. Through the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of trusted e-business infrastructure solutions, Entrust Technologies enables customers to secure their B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G.

B2B - business to business
, B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B.  and internal enterprise transactions and communications, as well as to manage the e-business portals through which these transactions take place. Today, Entrust serves more than 1,500 customers worldwide. Entrust Technologies pioneered the public-key infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificate solutions that provide security for business transactions and communications over the Internet. Entrust Technologies is located in Silicon Valley, Ottawa, Canada and Plano, Texas Plano (IPA: /ˈpleɪnoʊ/) is a wealthy suburb of Dallas, Texas, located to the north, mainly within Collin County, but also extending into Denton County. According to the 2000 U.S.  and has offices around the world. For additional company information please visit www.entrust.com.

Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust Technologies Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  and other countries. In Canada, Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust Technologies Limited. All Entrust product names are trademarks of Entrust Technologies. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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