Qovia Names David A. Collins Vice President of Sales for North America.

FREDERICK, Md. -- Former Cisco Sales Executive to Discuss Enterprise IP Telephony Management at Cisco IP Telecommunications User Group Conference

Qovia, Inc., the technology and market leader in enterprise IP telephony management, today announced that David A. Collins joined the company as vice president of sales for North America. The 20-year sales and business development veteran is responsible for developing and growing Qovia's direct, channel and OEM revenue streams and increasing awareness of Qovia's solutions throughout the United States and Canada.

Collins will discuss the merits of real-time monitoring and management of live enterprise IP telephony calls in a workshop at Cisco's IP Telecommunications User Group Conference. CIPTUG will be held in Las Vegas from November 28 to December 1, 2005.

"David's track record selling to fast-growing start-ups and worldwide enterprises, as well as his knowledge of and success in the IP telephony market, made him the ideal candidate to lead Qovia's North American sales," said David Woodall, CEO of Qovia. "He will play an instrumental role in Qovia's ability to meet the increasing demand for enterprise IP telephony management solutions."

"Too often the promise of IP telephony is not fulfilled after it has been deployed," said David Collins. "The only way to meet end-user expectations and deliver results is to analyze live calls in real time as they occur. I look forward to educating Cisco's users that minute-by-minute monitoring and management of IP telephony calls increases the reliability and utilization of IP telephony investments, increases end-user satisfaction and better manages the bottom line."

Prior to joining Qovia, Mr. Collins spent eight years in sales management roles at Cisco Systems where he pioneered Cisco's Advanced Technology program. He also developed a sales model that was adopted across the United States, providing more than $3B in revenue from technologies such as VoIP, security, optical and wireless. Prior to Cisco, Mr. Collins served as a principal in Advanced Graphical Applications, vice president of sales at The SOFTA Group (acquired by Aegon) and national indirect sales manager at Interleaf, which ranked seventh on Inc.'s list of fastest growing public companies during his tenure.

Mr. Collins has served as a thought leader for Information Security and has spoken at more than 40 industry events in the past three years. He has also served on the Chicago Council of Technology Advisors, Metropolitan Planning Council's Technology Committee and Network21, an association that focuses on delivering technology to disadvantaged students via policy changes. Mr. Collins earned a B.A. in political science from Brandeis University.

About Qovia, Inc.

Qovia(R) significantly eases the complexity of planning, monitoring and managing enterprise Internet phone networks. Providing dynamic discovery of VoIP resources and unmatched, minute-by-minute visibility into how IP telephony networks are performing, the Qovia IP Telephony Manager aggregates and analyzes IP telephony information to deliver timely call-by-call quality. Its intuitive dashboard shows a VoIP-centric view of critical IP telephony resources, allowing IT organizations to meet business objectives. Customers can use Qovia to increase the reliability and utilization of their IP telephony investments, increase end-user satisfaction and better manage the bottom line. Qovia was founded in 2002 and is backed by Canaan Partners; BlueRun Ventures (formerly Nokia Venture Partners); Anthem Capital; and the State of Maryland. The company, which has earned nearly two dozen industry awards, can be found online at www.qovia.com.