WatchGuard Names David Ridout VP of Worldwide Sales
21 April 2006 - 11:33AM
Business Wire
WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:WGRD), a leading provider of
Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions, today named David Ridout
vice president of its worldwide sales organization. Ridout will
bring a wealth of experience selling and marketing high-tech
solutions to the small and mid-sized business (SMB) to his new
role. Prior to this appointment, Ridout was WatchGuard's vice
president of channel marketing. Before joining WatchGuard, Ridout
was vice president of business development and marketing at Primus
Knowledge Solutions, a Seattle software maker that was acquired by
ATG (Art Technology Group). His experience also includes both sales
and marketing positions at high-tech companies such as Novell,
Canon and Crystal Decisions. "With the experience David gained
leading our channel marketing efforts and his high-tech SMB sales
and marketing background, David is in a position to immediately
contribute to our worldwide sales efforts," said Ed Borey, CEO of
WatchGuard. "We believe his thorough understanding of our market
and SMB channel focus will help us drive revenue growth at or above
market rates." Ridout replaces WatchGuard's former Senior Vice
President of Worldwide Sales, Dale Bastian, who will be leaving the
Company to pursue other interests. About WatchGuard WatchGuard
provides network security. The company's Firebox X family of
upgradeable appliances delivers the performance, functionality and
security strength to meet the needs of organizations of any size.
WatchGuard's Intelligent Layered Security protects against emerging
threats and provides the platform to integrate additional services
offered by the company. All WatchGuard products include a
LiveSecurity Service subscription for vulnerability alerts,
software updates, expert security instruction, as well as
individualized and self-help customer care. WatchGuard is
headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with offices throughout
Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit
www.watchguard.com. Certain statements in this press release,
including statements about our ability to achieve revenue growth at
or above market rates and other statements about our plans,
objectives, intentions, and expectations are "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are based on the
opinions and estimates of management at the time the statements are
made and are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties
and inaccurate assumptions that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those expected or implied by the
forward-looking statements. Our actual results could differ
materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements
for many reasons, including the risk that we will be unable to
achieve or sustain revenue growth at or above market rates or at
all and the other risks described under "Risk Factors" in our
annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005,
and in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings from time to
time. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon these
forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this
release. WatchGuard, LiveSecurity and Firebox are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. in the
United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
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