Courion Names Tom Rose as Vice President of Marketing.Business/Technology Editors FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2000 Proven track record in launching infrastructure management software will help Courion shape emerging market for self-service identity management solutions Courion(R) Corporation, a leading developer of self-service identity management software, today announced the appointment of Thomas Rose Thomas Ginnever Rose (16 March 1901–8 August 1979) was an English cricketer who played six first-class matches, all for Worcestershire in 1922. Rose made his debut in an innings defeat against Sussex at Hove in late May 1922; he scored 4 and 15, and bowled five as Vice President of Marketing. Mr. Rose will be responsible for all of Courion's marketing initiatives worldwide, including marketing communications Marketing communications (or marcom) are messages and related media used to communicate with a market. Those who practice advertising, branding, direct marketing, graphic design, marketing, packaging, promotion, publicity, sponsorship, public relations, sales, sales , product management, channel marketing, and product marketing. "Tom's rich knowledge of e-business infrastructure management spans many different segments, making him perfectly equipped to spearhead our worldwide marketing initiatives," said Chris Zannetos, 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 Courion. "His experience evangelizing emerging technologies, developing successful marketing programs, and packaging e-business software products will help Courion shape the fast-growing market for self-service identity management solutions." Mr. Rose previously served as Vice President of Marketing at HighGround Systems. During his four-year tenure there, his team established the storage resource management software category for monitoring the capacity, performance, and health of enterprise storage networks; defined and launched the first versions of HighGround's market-leading Storage Resource Manager (SRM (1) (Storage Resource Management) The management of the storage resources in an organization in order to avoid duplication of files and to determine space utilization across all servers. ) product family; secured the company's first major customers; and helped raise more than $35 million in funding. Prior to HighGround, Mr. Rose was Director of Product Marketing at HyperDesk Corp., an early groupware pioneer, where he led the company's turnaround and subsequent acquisition by FTP Software FTP Software was a software company incorporated in 1986 by James van Bokkelen, John Romkey (author of the MIT PC/IP package), Nancy Connor, Roxanne van Bokkelen (nee Ritchie), Dave Bridgham and several other founding shareholders. in 1995. He also spent six years at Digital Equipment Corp. in a variety of software engineering management, design, and development positions. Mr. Rose holds a B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics, from Clarkson University Clarkson participates in student exchange programs with many schools in Europe and Australia. One example is the University of Leicester in the UK where students who are studying engineering come to Clarkson for a year as part of one of the exchange programs. and a M.B.A from Rivier College Rivier College is a Catholic liberal arts college located in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. History Rivier College was founded in 1933 by the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary, and is named in honor of the blessed Anne Marie Rivier, foundress of the Sisters of . "User identities are the cornerstone for accessing every computing resource, from mainframe and distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. applications to business-to-business and business-to-consumer portals," said Rose, the new Vice President of Marketing at Courion. "Courion has all the right ingredients to dominate the market for software that enables users to securely and efficiently manage their own identity data: proven products, marquee customers, key strategic partnerships, strong distribution channels, and solid financial backing. I'm excited to join the management team and help build this rapidly growing market." About Courion Courion Corporation develops self-service identity management software that makes scalable, efficient service possible as e-business networks are opened to employees, customers, and business partners around the world. By replacing manual, costly, and unsecured user administration with automated, instantaneous, secure identity provisioning, Courion's solutions speed access to computing resources, increase customer retention, enhance information security, and protect user privacy while reducing service desk call volumes and costs. Courion's products include PasswordCourier(R), a self-service solution that enables employees and e-business customers to securely reset their own forgotten or expired passwords on virtually any system without having to contact support centers, and ProfileBuilder(TM) a self-service solution that enables employees and e-business customers to securely manage their own personal authentication information within any directory, support application, database, or human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. system. Courion's customers include numerous Fortune 1000 companies such as Boeing, Cummins Engine, Firstar Bank, Guardian Life Insurance Company, Penn Mutual Penn Mutual traces its beginning to 1847 when it became the seventh mutual life insurance company chartered in the United States. At the time of its organization there was a general distrust of stockholder-owned corporations so it was established as a mutual owned by its , and Raymond James. Courion was founded in 1996 and is backed by leading venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] and private investors. Courion is based in Framingham, MA and can be reached by calling 508-879-8400, sending e-mail to info@courion.com, or visiting http://www.courion.com. Courion and PasswordCourier are registered trademarks and the Courion logo and ProfileBuilder are trademarks of Courion Corporation. |
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