MailWise Expands Management Team; Clyde Gillard Joins as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 24, 2003 MailWise, a provider of managed e-mail filtering Email filtering is the processing of e-mail to organize it according to specified criteria. Most often this refers to the automatic processing of incoming messages, but the term also applies to the intervention of human intelligence in addition to artificial intelligence, and to and protection services, today announced the expansion of its management team with the appointment of Clyde Gillard as vice president of sales and marketing. Gillard is responsible for sales and marketing, strategic alliances, channel partnerships and the management of the sales support organization for MailWise's services. He reports directly to MailWise 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. and founder David Strickler. "We are delighted to welcome Clyde to the MailWise management team," said Strickler. "Now more than ever, companies are realizing that the flood of unwanted e-mail and business-stopping viruses is having a daily impact on productivity and resource management. We have great confidence in Clyde's ability to help MailWise grow, expand into new markets, and launch new services." "I look forward to building on MailWise's success and expanding its strategic opportunities," said Gillard. "While most people are aware of the individual impact of spam and viruses on daily productivity, the full organizational impact is often overlooked. By offering our e-mail filtering solution as a service, we can immediately reduce the bandwidth and storage penalty organizations pay when high volumes of unwanted e-mail overwhelm their infrastructure. There are tremendous opportunities to help these organizations both combat spam and viruses and manage their e-mail without tying up internal human and technical resources." A resident of Gloucester, Massachusetts
Gloucester is a city on Cape Ann in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is part of Boston's North Shore. , Gillard joins MailWise with proven experience in sales and marketing for large and emerging technology organizations. Prior to MailWise, Gillard was vice president of sales and business development for mobile and remote business information solutions provider NowSpeed where he successfully launched the NowSpeed Mobile Office technology and licensed more than 14,000 seats in its first year. He also successfully transitioned the business model from an ASP to software licensing. Gillard also served as VP of strategic business alliances for SkillSet Software, marketing enterprise-level HR applications focused on the automation of staffing and hiring through Web and Internet technology. At SkillSet, Gillard introduced the company's flagship applications, EEX EEX European Energy Exchange EEX Enter Exponent and Desktop Recruiter, to the international marketplace and formed several key partnerships relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc SkillSet's innovative workflow concepts. Gillard was also the director of strategic alliances at Restrac, Inc., director of sales and marketing at Acknowledge, Inc., and held management positions at Bell Atlantic, NCR/ATT and Motorola. Gillard earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Framingham State College Framingham State College, at Framingham, Mass.; chartered 1838, opened 1839 at Lexington, moved to Framingham 1853, a normal school until 1930. Formerly known as the Massachusetts State Teachers College, it adopted its present name in 1960. and is pursuing an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration at Babson College Babson College, located in Wellesley, Massachusetts (zoned as "Babson Park," ZIP code 02457),[1] is a private business school that grants all undergraduates a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. The F. W. . MailWise Services MailWise offers its MailWise Filter(TM) solution as a hosted service that enables corporations to block SPAM, viruses, and unwanted content from ever reaching their e-mail systems. MailWise Filter is compatible with Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. , Novel GroupWise, Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. , and all other SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail. compatible e-mail systems. Customers can quickly and easily deploy the service within an hour, enabling employees to work more efficiently while simultaneously improving the organization's bandwidth, server, and storage utilization. About MailWise MailWise is the leader's choice for SPAM filtering and provides comprehensive e-mail protection services, delivering real-time Anti-SPAM, Anti-Virus and content filtering to hundreds of organizations worldwide. MailWise Filter(TM) is an ASP-based service that enables corporations to improve productivity, reduce legal and human resources issues, and eliminate downtime of critical systems. The company's solutions are compatible with GroupWise, Exchange, Notes and all other SMTP compatible e-mail systems. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, customers include International House of Pancakes, Vermont Teddy Bear, Ming East-West, VanWinkle, The Beddell Firm, and Wizard International. For more information, go to www.mailwise.com, or call (800) 999-5412. (C) 2003 MailWise LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . The MailWise logo and the marks related to MailWise products referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of MailWise, LLC. All other brand names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. NOTE TO EDITORS: PHOTO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST |
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