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Former HP ProCurve and Digital China executive joins Fortinet
SYDNEY, Australia, June 5, 2007
- Fortinet® - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -
today announced the appointment of Zou WenSheng as Sales Director for China. Mr Zou will be responsible for channel management and enterprise sales for Fortinet in the People's Republic of China, with the goal of improving market penetration and operational efficiency.
Mr Zou has been involved in the IT industry since 1997, holding senior positions in leading companies in the industry. Mr Zou was previously channel manager of Hewlett Packard (China), managing solutions and services for HP's ProCurve Enterprise division. Prior to this, he was China's channel manager for Digital China, responsible for multiple enterprise product lines, including Juniper/NetScreen and Trend Micro and had aggressively developed channel vendors in his territory.
"Wensheng's valuable mix of experience, both on the distribution side at Digital China and on the vendor side with HP ProCurve, can benefit Fortinet as we seek to increase our penetration in the Greater China market," said Jens Andreassen, Fortinet's vice president of APAC. "He's a seasoned executive and we're please to have him on board."
Mr Zou will be based in Beijing. For more information about Fortinet, please visit: www.fortinet.com
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the pioneer and market-leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web content filtering, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam--providing customers a way to protect multiple threats as well as blended threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified eight times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection, cleaning and antispyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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