WebLayers Announces Passing of CEO Irwin Wallach; Late CEO's Career Spanned More Than 30 Years Leading Development and Operations of Large IT organizations; Interim CEO Named.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- WebLayers, the leading provider of policy-based governance solutions for strategic IT initiatives, today announced with deep regret the untimely passing of WebLayers' 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. , Mr. Irwin Wallach. Mr. Wallach passed away on Monday, May 22, 2006 near his home in Long Island, NY. Irwin served as WebLayers' CEO since August 2005. Prior to taking WebLayers' leadership reins he served as General Manager and VP for Application Delivery in Mercury Interactive For another company with a similar name, see Mercury Computer Systems. HP Mercury (formerly Mercury Interactive) is a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard that is a market leader in automated software quality assurance and offers products in other areas such as diagnostics, following Mercury's acquisition of Appilog, Inc., a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of based software company that Mr. Wallach headed as its CEO from inception. Prior to Appilog, Irwin built GENOSYS Technology Management, a leading IT services outsourcing and hosting firm into a global provider to Fortune 2000 organizations who were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a cost-effective way to manage their it infrastructures. The vision behind GENOSYS was developed by Irwin over his 20 year experience as a Managing Director of IT Services for Bankers Trust The Bankers Trust is a historic American banking organisation that was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1998. It was originally set up when banks could not perform trust company services. Company. While at Bankers Trust, Irwin was responsible for all elements of the Bank's global Telecommunications networks and large projects including the Engineering, Implementation and Operations functions for all of the Bank's offices worldwide. "Irwin's death is a tragic loss for his family, as well as for everyone at WebLayers," stated Gregg Bjork, Sr. VP of Field Operations. "Irwin had a genuine passion for life and love for his family that was contagious to everyone around him and his legacy to me, the Board and his employees is substantial." "With Irwin at the helm, WebLayers grew to be a strong company with solid financial footing and increased opportunities in our space," said Guy Loewy, Founder and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of WebLayers. "Irwin was one of those rare individuals who was an excellent leader as well as a true visionary in this industry. I will miss him greatly, as I know all who knew him will." On an interim basis Gregg Bjork will serve as WebLayers' CEO, working with Founder and CTO Guy Loewy. About WebLayers WebLayers (www.weblayers.com) is leading the market for policy-driven Governance for strategic IT initiatives including SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. , Outsourcing, and Enterprise System Integration. A private company founded in 2002 with venture capital backing, WebLayers is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. WebLayers Center(TM), the company's flagship product, is deployed within Fortune 500 companies and government agencies who are using it to define their enterprise policies, detect, analyze, and ensure conformance and to govern their most strategic IT initiatives. WebLayers Center's overall design is based on WebLayers' groundbreaking, patent-pending technology for policy-based Governance for the enterprise in a Service Oriented Architecture. For more information about WebLayers, please visit www.weblayers.com. WebLayers is the founder and coordinator of The SOA Forum. The SOA Forum is comprised of senior IT executives and enterprise architects from Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Current members include over 500 senior IT executives and enterprise architects. WebLayers is also a member of AFEI AFEI Association For Enterprise Integration (Association for Enterprise Integration), WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization, www.ws-i.org) A consortium founded by Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and Intel that is dedicated to the development of Web services. Its goals are to provide guidance and education, to promote interoperability and to ensure that Web services (Web Services Interoperability The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is an industry consortium chartered to promote interoperability amongst the stack of web services specifications. Organization), and OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). Copyright 2006 WebLayers, Inc. All rights reserved. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. WebLayers Center, WebLayers Center for SOA, WebLayers Center for Outsourcing and WebLayers Center for Enterprise Services Integration are trademarks of WebLayers, Inc. 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