Edward Forker Joins Integrien as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales.

Former EMC SMARTS Executive Brings 28 Years Experience in Building Solid Business and Sales Teams While Surpassing Revenue Targets

IRVINE, Calif. -- Integrien Corporation, the leader in integrity management solutions, today announced the appointment of Edward Forker to senior vice president of worldwide sales. Forker will leverage his 28 years of sales and management experience to continue growing Integrien's customer base and extending the company's footprint within existing customers.

Prior to joining Integrien, Forker was the senior vice president of worldwide sales at SMARTS, now part of EMC, where he drove revenue growth from $15 million to $71 million in just three years, achieving 16 profitable quarters. Before that, he was senior vice president of enterprise sales at Metromedia where he achieved more than $250 million in contracted sales. Forker's extensive sales background also includes serving as vice president of sales at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, Bay Networks, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Prior to that, Forker had VP-level responsibility for network management at AT&T and for the credit card business at Citibank.

"Ed brings to Integrien a perfect combination of sales leadership, technology experience, and customer savvy as a former buyer of enterprise management products," said Al Eisaian, CEO and cofounder of Integrien. "With his conviction that Integrien and our partners must understand and serve the needs of our customers, we are confident that he will help Integrien exceed our business goals by increasing our customer base. We're confident Ed will continue the rapid expansion of our worldwide sales operation to meet the accelerating demand for our integrity management solutions."

"I was drawn to Integrien because of the company's innovative ability to predict and prevent problems through its integrity management solutions. No other company has been able to solve these crucial problems that are impeding IT operations worldwide," said Forker. "I look forward to taking Integrien to the next level of sales growth and am excited to extend the company's market reach and customer base globally."

About Integrien

Integrien Corporation is the leading provider of integrity management solutions. Integrien's products and services allow enterprise IT organizations to predict, prevent and heal problems in technology-based business systems, in order to ensure these systems maintain full operating integrity. As a result, Integrien customers experience higher-quality business operations that are more efficient and continuously available at required performance levels. Integrien Alive[TM] Integrity Manager uniquely isolates the elements of complex IT ecosystems that together deliver mission-critical business services. Alive detects early warnings of application slowdowns and outages that legacy solutions miss, avoiding post-mortem troubleshooting by recommending preventive action to significantly improve the service level of those mission-critical business services.