WebTrends Appoints Hamid Bahadori as Vice President of Product Development and Hosted Operations.

19-year software industry veteran VP brings deep strategic, technical and managerial skills to award-winning WebTrends team

PORTLAND, Ore. -- WebTrends Inc., the market leader for web analytics and Marketing Performance Management solutions, today announced the appointment of Hamid Bahadori to vice president of product development and hosted operations. Reporting directly to Greg Drew, WebTrends CEO, Bahadori is responsible for leading the team in product development and hosted operations for WebTrends.

With over 19 years of engineering and leadership experience at high-tech and software companies, Bahadori brings extensive expertise at defining, architecting, and developing highly scalable, enterprise-class solutions for leading organizations.

"WebTrends is in the unique position to expand its long-standing market share leadership of web analytics to the broader category of Marketing Performance Management," said Hamid Bahadori, vice president of product development and hosted operations, WebTrends, Inc. "I'm particularly excited about building on the long history of award-winning solutions at WebTrends, and to continue developing comprehensive software and on demand solutions that meet the needs of enterprise organizations as they face the ever-evolving challenges of online marketing."

Prior to WebTrends, Bahadori served as vice president of engineering at Coremetrics, senior vice president of engineering at Actuate, Inc. and vice president of engineering at Envive. Bahadori also held the position of senior director of development at Oracle, project lead at Sun Microsystems and senior systems engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Bahadori holds a doctorate degree in computer science and a master's degree in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a bachelor's degrees in applied math and EECS from Purdue University.

"We are very excited to have Hamid on our team. The appointment of an individual of Hamid's caliber is a clear indication of the current strength of our company and a strong sign of our future market opportunity," said Greg Drew, WebTrends CEO and president. "Hamid's leadership and experience will continue to grow our world-class engineering team. He will be a great asset as we continue to develop the market-leading solutions our customers depend on to continually prove and improve their business results."

About WebTrends Inc.

As the acknowledged global web analytics market leader for more than twelve years, WebTrends is now leading the category into Marketing Performance Management. With an uncompromising focus on delivering the most accurate and actionable metrics, WebTrends enables thousands of web-smart organizations to easily improve campaign performance and web site conversion as well as build stronger relationships with their customers. With WebTrends Marketing Lab, the company stands alone in offering comprehensive, flexible and scalable web analytics as well as sophisticated, on-the-fly data exploration and customer targeting solutions for relationship marketing. Companies such as Microsoft, Ticketmaster, IKEA, Reuters, General Mills, US Bank and more than half of the Fortune and Global 500 rely on WebTrends as their trusted standard, not only for the award-winning technology, but also for a full range of consulting services and unmatched industry expertise across the broadest range of vertical markets. Through software and on-demand options and a full range of data collection methods, WebTrends is unique in its ability to meet any analysis objective with leading data integrity, privacy and security best practices. For more information, visit www.webtrends.com.

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