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Paul Judd Joins UTM Market Leader to Drive Next Phase of Success; Heads Growing Team Committed to High-End Opportunities Through Channel Partners
LONDON, UK - September 10 2007
- Fortinet® - a pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -
today announced the appointment of Paul Judd as its new UK and Ireland Regional Director. Judd brings a wealth of experience to the role, where he will oversee the next phase of the company's aggressive growth, targeting a threefold increase in sales and headcount over the next 12 months.
"I've watched Fortinet for some time and I really believe that the company has a fantastic opportunity to extend the extraordinary success gained in other markets, into the UK - and pull away from other vendors in our space," said Judd. "That's why it's such an exciting time to join the team. The marketplace is extremely competitive, so I'm looking forward to the challenges of keeping ahead of Juniper, Cisco and Checkpoint in UTM market penetration."
Judd possesses more than 20 years of sales and management experience gained at organisations including Azzurri Data, Nortel, Extreme and most recently as UK & Ireland Country Manager at Redline/Juniper Networks where he was responsible for sales in of the company's range of application acceleration solutions. He brings to Fortinet enormous 'direct touch' experience in all the major vertical markets, along with extensive knowledge and understanding of the UK IT networking and security channels.
"Paul Judd has all of the skills, energy and leadership we require in the UK marketplace to push on and grow the success that our channel partners and customers expect," said Andre Stewart, VP EMEA for Fortinet.
"He will be responsible for meeting targets for accelerated growth and to drive our UK and Ireland market penetration successfully into a exciting new phase. His appointment is just part of a major investment we are making in this region."
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management, or UTM, security 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, VPN, spyware prevention and anti-spam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level 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 in six programs by ICSA Labs: (Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec, SSL, Network IPS, and Anti-Spyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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