Cloverleaf Appoints President, Vice President of Sales to Escalate Sales, Marketing and Business Development Efforts.

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. -- Seasoned Executives to Manage the Company's Global Expansion, Aggressively Expanding Customer and Partner Activities in North America 

Cloverleaf Communications today announced the appointments of Richard Bauer to the position of President and Bob Wilson as Vice President, Sales, the Americas. With over 50 years' combined experience in strategic sales and marketing of technology solutions, Bauer and Wilson will focus on increasing the company's presence in the storage networking marketplace with its proven Intelligent Storage Networking(TM) (iSN(TM)) system.

"We've built a solid corporate foundation and have made great strides in developing key customer and partner relationships," said Avi Weiss, CEO of Cloverleaf. "Growing industry interest in the iSN dictates we become much more aggressive in our sales and marketing activities. Both Richard and Bob come to Cloverleaf with the experience and expertise to take us to the next level, their addition puts us in a much stronger position to grow the business and achieve our long-term goals."

With effective team building and leadership skills, Bauer has a proven history of success taking companies from start-up to IPO, and has key global marketing, engineering, operations and sales experience while managing multi-national companies. He joins Cloverleaf from Expand Networks where he served as President. Prior to Expand, he served as President and Business Unit Manager of PowerDsine, Inc. where he was responsible for all global business functions and provided leadership in developing missions and strategic plans for the company. Bauer successfully started the company's U.S. operations from the ground up, and was instrumental in leading the company to a successful public offering. Under his sales and marketing leadership, PowerDsine became the number one global provider of Power over Ethernet solutions. He has also held marketing, product manager and engineer positions with Lambda Electronics and EBASCO Services.

A storage industry veteran, Wilson brings to Cloverleaf extensive experience in sales, marketing, customer service, product development, technical and management. Before joining Cloverleaf, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Channels for Xiotech Corporation where he launched a new global channel program and grew their channel to $43MM in his first year. Prior to Xiotech he was Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Business Development for Tricord Systems, a pioneer in clustered NAS solutions. Bob was VP, Sales and Marketing for new ventures of Western Digital -- Connex and SANavigator -- where he developed the sales and marketing teams from scratch. He was also SVP, Marketing and Business Development at Intelliguard Software where he developed the company's first strategic plan, product messaging/strategies, launched NDMP, and helped pioneer serverless backup on a SAN.

"Cloverleaf has spent significant time and energy organizing its operations with solid management and development teams in place," said Bauer. "Combined with a proven system that delivers capabilities that no other vendor currently provides, we're prepared to aggressively grow our business and feel uniquely positioned to make a solid impact in the industry."

Wilson stated, "I was very impressed with Cloverleaf's iSN system. I know the storage networking industry and the major problem facing enterprises today is the need to do more with fewer resources. The iSN addresses this by providing a comprehensive solution for virtualization/consolidation, heterogeneous multi-tiered storage and thin provisioning. Cloverleaf is also leading the way with its business continuity capabilities, including advanced data protection and disaster recovery, and non-disruptive data migration regardless of the equipment resident in the data center. Our partners and customers see this business and operational flexibility as an opportunity to leverage the adoption of best of breed technologies regardless of what exists in the data center today."

Bauer agreed, "I believe Cloverleaf's iSN is revolutionary for the storage networking industry and we are already seeing this resonate in our discussions with new prospective customers and partners."

Cloverleaf's iSN

Cloverleaf has developed a unique and proven Intelligent Storage Networking(TM) (iSN(TM)) system offering end users an unmatched combination of advanced business continuity and data protection services, the ability to implement tiered storage in a heterogeneous environment and a comprehensive suite of intelligent, policy based, storage management functions.

The Cloverleaf iSN is a utility-class system that treats the data center as a single integrated entity from arrays to filers to provide application servers with File (NAS) and Block (SAN) services over both Fiber Channel and GbE networks. Cloverleaf's iSN is a powerful solution that provides thin provisioning, advanced data protection and business continuance applications at an affordable price, simplifying storage management and providing a very compelling ROI.

About Cloverleaf Communications Inc.

Cloverleaf has developed a unique and proven Intelligent Storage Networking(TM) (iSN(TM)) system. Based on technology acquired from Elta Systems, a large technology powerhouse affiliated with Israel Aircraft Industries, Cloverleaf's core technology has already been tested and proven with very-high performance and secure communications systems in mission critical defense and commercial applications. Cloverleaf is privately held. For more information contact Cloverleaf at 2 Willow Street, Southborough, MA 01745, 508-624-9500 or visit www.cllf.com.