Clearswift Appoints Patrick Cassady as Vice President of Sales, Americas.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Clearswift today announced the appointment of Patrick Cassady as vice president of sales, Americas. Based out of Clearswift's headquarters in Redwood City, Cassady brings 14 years of experience in high-tech sales and executive leadership to Clearswift, most recently with Aspect Communications.

In the role of vice president, Cassady will expand and oversee the sales teams in the United States, Canada and South America. Cassady's leadership will help increase sales of Clearswift's flagship MIMEsweeper for SMTP software, its MIMEsweeper SMTP/HTTP Appliance offerings and recently released MIMEsweeper Email Managed Service.

Prior to joining Clearswift, Cassady served as Western area sales director for Aspect Communications where he hired and managed a team of sales people in the western United States and Canada. He has worked for Sybase Corp., where he hired and managed a new overlay sales team. Previous to Sybase, Cassady worked at GlobalSight as vice president of North American sales and helped form strategic partnerships around the world. Cassady has held various roles at Network Associates, Remedy Corp., Internet Security Systems and Insignia Solutions in sales and management.

Cassady holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in telecommunications, management and sales from Pepperdine University. He has completed the David Sandler Sales Program, Professional Sales Skills Training and the Science of Selling Institute Programs.

"We are excited to add Patrick to our expanding sales team here in the United States. Patrick is an experienced sales executive and we look forward to leveraging his vast knowledge and experience," said Greg Hampton, managing director of the Americas for Clearswift. "This market is exciting and fluid and Patrick's leadership will be key in this period of growth for Clearswift."

"I'm excited to work with this exceptional sales team at Clearswift. The products are world-class and the company is positioned nicely in a very hot market space," said Cassady. "I look forward to helping develop and grow this team while increasing Clearswift's market penetration in the Americas."

About Clearswift

Clearswift simplifies content security.

Our products help organizations enforce best-practice e-mail and Web use, ensuring all traffic complies with internal policy and external regulations. Our range of content filtering solutions makes it easy to deploy, manage and maintain no-compromise e-mail and Web security for both inbound and outbound traffic.

Clearswift is the only vendor to offer comprehensive, policy-based content security in all three deployment methods: as software, as an appliance and as a managed service.

All three platforms are designed to take the hassle out of securing Internet traffic, with a clear, intuitive management interface; automatic, 'zero-touch' updates; powerful reporting and common-sense policy management. Twenty years of experience across 15,000 organizations has helped us raise security standards while simplifying security management at the same time.

We've helped many of the world's most successful organizations use the Internet with confidence and are committed to staying ahead of the market and helping our customers defend against all emerging threats.