Asigra Appoints Seasoned Management Team

Asigra Inc. announced key executive appointments to its sales, business development, government and channel operations. Joining Asigra’s executive team are Chief Sales Officer, Joseph Jeter; Vice President of Global Alliances, Shannon White; Vice President of North American Channels, Don Phillips and Vice President of Government Systems, Jim Powers. Asigra’s veteran management team will lead the company as the market demand for service-oriented backup and recovery continues to expand.

With more than 22 years in the business and the first to focus on the entire data protection ecosystem, Asigra has established itself as a leader in enterprise information recovery management. Recognized as a Gartner “Cool Vendor”, the Company’s industry milestones are extensive and include delivery of the first and only agentless information recovery platform without the cost, performance, interoperability, security and compliance issues associated with agent-based backup and recovery solutions. Asigra was also the first to deliver comprehensive VMware recovery, data de-duplication, WAN-optimized recovery, AES 256 encryption in-flight and at-rest, Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM), support for agentless 64-bit backup/recovery and grid-based enterprise scalability for enterprise-wide information recovery. With the appointment of its new executive team members, Asigra is positioned to capitalize on the growing demand for comprehensive enterprise information recovery.

“Asigra will continue to steer the course as more global service providers and the enterprises they support leverage the Televaulting agentless information recovery platform.” said Asigra CEO, David Farajun. “We are executing on excellence with today’s announcement of senior executives whose proven track records define them as industry leaders. We are proud to have them on-board to drive sales and marketing initiatives as Asigra lengthens its lead in the space.”

Leading Asigra’s sales and marketing organization is Joseph C. Jeter Jr., Asigra’s new Chief Sales Officer. Jeter is a visionary leader with decades of experience in outsourcing, managed services, and IT security.  Prior to Asigra, Jeter was vice president of infrastructure transformation services for Unisys Corporation where he was responsible for doubling the size of this multi-million dollar business unit in IT outsourcing over a three year period. During his tenure, he managed sales and delivery of solutions targeted at high-growth markets. Before Unisys, Jeter held executive sales and marketing positions with Verizon Communications where he managed Fortune 500 accounts and grew the company’s Network Integration unit from zero to $100 million in revenue in under two years.

Shannon E. White joins Asigra as Vice President of Global Alliances and brings more than 14 years of sales, sales management and marketing experience to the organization. Prior to Asigra, White held executive positions with Unisys, HP, Compaq and Texas Instruments. While at Unisys, White managed a multi-million dollar account portfolio and grew the company’s sales pipeline 75% in just nine months. White brings experience in distributed infrastructure outsourcing and is chartered with driving and sustaining partner-based revenue growth for the company.

Spearheading Asigra’s direction in the channel is Daniel P. Phillips, Asigra’s new Vice President of Channels. Leading up to Asigra, Phillips was a Director at Alcatel-Lucent where he created and implemented a three year program delivering $100 million in revenue. Before Alcatel-Lucent, Phillips was Director of Enterprise Channel Marketing at Nortel Networks where he created and implemented the first global wireless channel sales strategy to drive $425 million in enterprise revenue annually.

Asigra has also appointed Jim A. Powers as Asigra’s Vice President of Government Systems to lead the company’s efforts in the federal market. Having garnered more than $1 billion in federal contracts, Powers brings proven experience in building profitable government sales organizations. Prior to Asigra, Powers was Managing Principal of EMC’s Microsoft Practice where he managed a team of over 60 professionals in delivering consulting services to the U.S. government. Before EMC, Powers led the regular capture of multi-million dollar government contracts for Science Applications International Corporation, Alcatel-Lucent, Government Micro Resources (GMR) and AT&T.

“With several factors driving demand for Asigra’s enterprise information recovery platform including growth in IT outsourcing, Asigra sees tremendous opportunity to expand existing operations worldwide,” said Joseph Jeter. “As a leader in information recovery management, Asigra is capitalizing on its technological superiority to aggressively expand market share in this growing area of information technology.”

As Asigra asserts its position, its business direction will center on growth of the Company’s global sales organization. Currently, Asigra maintains offices in the United States and Germany, and has extended its reach to Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim through channel partners. Asigra will leverage the experience and contacts of its newly enhanced management team to continue expansion in these regions which have demonstrated significant opportunities for growth over the past 12 months.

According to Tim Stammers, Storage Analyst for OVUM, a leading market research advisory services firm, "2008 promises to be breakout year for enterprise-class information recovery services as a growing number of enterprises outsource their backup processes. Beneficiaries of this will include the service providers, integrators and service oriented backup platform vendors that specialize in the upper end of this market."

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