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PHD Virtual Names Thomas Charlton Chairman and CEO

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PHD Virtual Technologies, provider of esXpress VM Backup, a multi-VM backup and restore solution, today announced that Thomas Charlton has been appointed Chairman and CEO by the PHD Virtual board of directors.

Prior to joining PHD Virtual, Charlton was the CEO of multiple software companies, including Shunra Software (network emulation and appliances), VoiceGenie Technologies (Voice XML speech platform) and Trailblazer Systems (eCommerce EDI software).

Responsible for each company’s strategic direction, revenue growth, profitability and global expansion, Charlton led Shunra and VoiceGenie to profitability, and led VoiceGenie and Trailblazer Sytems to successful acquisitions by Alcatel and Nu Bridges respectively. Charlton also served as CEO at Tidal Software (enterprise job scheduling) which was recently acquired by Cisco Systems.

Phoenix Technologies Loses, Replaces CFO

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Phoenix Technologies today announced the appointment of Robert Andersen as Interim Chief Financial Officer, effective March 5, 2010.

Mr. Andersen replaces Mr. Richard Arnold, who resigned from Phoenix to pursue other opportunities.

Mr. Andersen joined the Company in 2008 as Vice President of Finance responsible for controllership, financial planning, external reporting, and tax. He has more than 17 years of corporate finance experience. Prior to joining Phoenix, Mr. Andersen spent six years in senior financial roles at Wind River Systems, Inc., a leading embedded systems software company. He began his finance career at Hewlett-Packard Company, where he served in various controller, treasury, and technology finance management roles.

Brocade Appoints John McHugh As VP, Chief Marketing Officer

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Brocade today announced that it named John McHugh as vice president and chief marketing officer (CMO), responsible for the company’s global marketing and strategic alliance strategies.

McHugh will report directly to CEO, Michael Klayko.

McHugh has almost 30 years of expertise and experience in the networking industry, driving innovation and profitability for a number of large companies. As part of his 26-year career at HP, McHugh held a variety of executive management positions including vice president and worldwide general manager of HP ProCurve Networking, building it from a start-up to a $1 billion plus business.

During his tenure, he was responsible for global operations, strategic and tactical planning and business development. In 2005 the editors at Network World named McHugh as one of the “Top 50 Most Powerful People”. Network World praised McHugh for a number of accomplishments, most notably “for his well-rounded enterprise strategy, which encompasses convergence, wireless LANs, WAN access and more.”

More recently, McHugh was vice president and general manager of Nortel Networks’ Enterprise Network Solutions business unit, where he was responsible for the technology vision, R&D and business operations. McHugh drove the successful divesture of this business unit as an intact and profitable asset. Prior to Nortel, McHugh was with SilverLake Partners where he worked on M&A activity, and technology and company evaluations.

McHugh holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana.

Accenture Veteran Terry Breen Joins EMC As Head Strategic Alliances

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EMC Corporation today announced that 26-year Accenture veteran Terry Breen has joined EMC as Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances.

Reporting to Bill Teuber, EMC’s Vice Chairman, Breen will be responsible for enhancing and extending EMC’s strategic go-to-market relationships with the world’s leading systems integrators, outsourcers and service providers. In this role, Breen will align closely with EMC’s technology integration and channel distribution alliance teams to ensure a holistic and unified EMC relationship model across its entire partner ecosystem.

Breen (50) most recently served as Global Managing Partner of Accenture’s Electronics and High Tech Industry Practice and was a member of the Accenture Global Leadership Council.

He previously held the position of Global Managing Partner of the Management Consulting Group for the company’s $5 billion Communication and High Tech Operating Group. Promoted to Partner in 1993, Breen served many clients around the world including EMC, Sony, Ericsson, Nokia, Cisco, HP, Ingram Micro, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Siemens, and Samsung. Breen holds a master of business administration from George Washington University and a bachelor of arts from Amherst College.

Phoenix Technologies Appoints Tom Lacey President and CEO

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Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: PTEC), a global leader in core systems software, today announced that its Board of Directors has named Tom Lacey as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, effective as of February 25, 2010. Additionally, Mr. Lacey has been appointed to serve as a member of the company’s Board of Directors.
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“We are delighted that Tom has joined Phoenix,” said Jeffrey Smith, Chairman of the Board. “Tom brings three decades of engineering, marketing, sales and operational leadership experience to Phoenix, and has a record of driving profitability and growth in his prior roles at leading technology companies. Tom brings an extensive knowledge of Phoenix’s key customers and partners and we are confident that his leadership skills and industry relationships will drive shareholder value at Phoenix.”
Prior to joining Phoenix, Mr. Lacey served as corporate Vice President and General Manager of Applied Materials’ SunFab Thin Film Solar Products since 2009, where he was responsible for all aspects of the turnkey solar thin-film production business.  Prior to Applied Materials, from 2006 to 2007, Mr. Lacey was President of Flextronics International’s Components Group, an 8,000 employee division that designs and sells display, power system and camera cell phone modules. Mr. Lacey joined Flextronics in connection with the successful $300 million sale to Flextronics of International Display Works (IDW), a developer of LCD displays, where he served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from 2004 to 2006. While at IDW, Mr. Lacey drove significant revenue and profitability growth and increased the market capitalization of IDW by approximately 6 times following a successful listing on NASDAQ.
Prior to IDW, Mr. Lacey had a distinguished 13 year career at Intel Corporation, where he held various management and executive positions of increasing responsibility, including Vice President Sales and Marketing, President of Intel Americas, where he was responsible for over $12 billion in sales and managed Dell, IBM, HP, Cisco Systems, Motorola and other critical accounts. In his last year at Intel, as Vice President and General Manager, Flash Products, Mr. Lacey grew revenues by $500 million to $2.3 billion with customers such as Samsung, Sony, Nokia, Motorola and others.
“I am very excited to join Phoenix. Phoenix has been at the core of the PC ecosystem for over 30 years and has developed valuable intellectual property assets and technology, long-standing relationships with all of the major OEMs, ODMs and silicon vendors in the industry, and unique firmware expertise and engineering competencies with extremely talented employees,” said Lacey. “The immediate focus for me at Phoenix is to ensure that the Company’s core business returns to its full potential so that Phoenix can continue to provide the most innovative solutions and services to its customers. I am confident in the prospects for Phoenix and look forward to working with the rest of the management team and Board of Directors to maximize value for all shareholders.”
Mr. Lacey succeeds Woodson Hobbs, who has served as Phoenix’s President and Chief Executive Officer since 2006. The Company also announced that Mr. Hobbs has resigned from the company’s Board of Directors.
In connection with his appointment, and as an incentive to his joining, Mr. Lacey was granted a non-qualified inducement stock option to purchase 400,000 shares of common stock of Phoenix, par value $0.001 per share, with an exercise price equal to $2.70 (USD), the closing sale price of the Company’s stock on February 25, 2010, the grant date. Assuming Mr. Lacey remains actively employed by Phoenix, the option will vest and become exercisable with respect to 1/48th of the total number of shares underlying the option each month after the grant date so that all of the shares will be fully vested on the four (4) year anniversary of the grant date. The vesting of the options will accelerate if Mr. Lacey’s employment is terminated without cause or for good reason after a change of control. Additionally, Mr. Lacey received an inducement grant of 425,000 shares of restricted stock on the grant date. The restricted stock vests as follows: 25,000 shares vested on the grant date, and 1/48th of the remaining shares vest monthly so that all of the shares of restricted stock will be fully vested on the four (4) year anniversary of the grant date. The vesting of all unvested restricted stock will accelerate if Mr. Lacey’s employment is terminated without cause or for good reason following a change of control. The inducement options and restricted shares were granted outside of the terms of any existing Phoenix equity incentive plan and without shareholder approval pursuant to NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 4350(i)(1)(A)(iv).

Phoenix Technologies today announced that its Board of Directors has named Tom Lacey as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, effective as of February 25, 2010.

Additionally, Mr. Lacey has been appointed to serve as a member of the company’s Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Phoenix, Mr. Lacey served as corporate Vice President and General Manager of Applied Materials’ SunFab Thin Film Solar Products since 2009, where he was responsible for all aspects of the turnkey solar thin-film production business.  Prior to Applied Materials, from 2006 to 2007, Mr. Lacey was President of Flextronics International’s Components Group, an 8,000 employee division that designs and sells display, power system and camera cell phone modules.

Mr. Lacey joined Flextronics in connection with the successful $300 million sale to Flextronics of International Display Works (IDW), a developer of LCD displays, where he served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from 2004 to 2006. While at IDW, Mr. Lacey drove significant revenue and profitability growth and increased the market capitalization of IDW by approximately 6 times following a successful listing on NASDAQ.

Prior to IDW, Mr. Lacey had a distinguished 13 year career at Intel Corporation, where he held various management and executive positions of increasing responsibility, including Vice President Sales and Marketing, President of Intel Americas, where he was responsible for over $12 billion in sales and managed Dell, IBM, HP, Cisco Systems, Motorola and other critical accounts. In his last year at Intel, as Vice President and General Manager, Flash Products, Mr. Lacey grew revenues by $500 million to $2.3 billion with customers such as Samsung, Sony, Nokia, Motorola and others.

Mr. Lacey succeeds Woodson Hobbs, who has served as Phoenix’s President and Chief Executive Officer since 2006. The Company also announced that Mr. Hobbs has resigned from the company’s Board of Directors.

In connection with his appointment, and as an incentive to his joining, Mr. Lacey was granted a non-qualified inducement stock option to purchase 400,000 shares of common stock of Phoenix, par value $0.001 per share, with an exercise price equal to $2.70 (USD), the closing sale price of the Company’s stock on February 25, 2010, the grant date.

Assuming Mr. Lacey remains actively employed by Phoenix, the option will vest and become exercisable with respect to 1/48th of the total number of shares underlying the option each month after the grant date so that all of the shares will be fully vested on the four (4) year anniversary of the grant date. The vesting of the options will accelerate if Mr. Lacey’s employment is terminated without cause or for good reason after a change of control.

AutoVirt Names Thomas Fraser VP of Sales

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AutoVirt™, Inc., the leading provider of file virtualization solutions for Windows data migration and management, today announced that it has appointed Thomas Fraser to the newly created position of Vice President of Sales.  Reporting directly to AutoVirt’s President and CEO, Josh Klein, Fraser will be responsible for developing and executing the global sales and channel strategy, establishing and directing the external sales force, as well as growing and overseeing the inside sales team.
“I am excited to join AutoVirt during such a critical stage of the company’s evolution,” said Fraser.  “Its recent release of AutoVirt v3.0 with innovative enhancements in areas such as storage automation policies, independent namespaces and extended platform interoperability reinforced its position as the leading solution for helping customers to control the exponential growth of their unstructured file data.  With further significant developments soon to be released, it’s time to take the sales effort to the next level.  I am thrilled to have the opportunity to play a key role in that process.”
“We are delighted and count ourselves very fortunate to add a sales executive of Thom’s caliber to the management team,” said Klein.  “Thom’s extensive sales expertise – from both a strategic planning and execution standpoint, and wide-ranging industry relationships will prove invaluable as AutoVirt moves into the next significant stage of the company’s growth and development.”
With over 25 years of domestic and international IT industry experience, in both direct and channel sales management positions – across the enterprise messaging, knowledge management and security markets, Thomas Fraser enjoys a unique depth and breadth of expertise.  Prior to joining AutoVirt, Fraser served as Vice President of Sales at Panda Security, a leading provider of cloud-based security solutions with products available in more than 23 languages and millions of users located in 195 countries around the world.  In this position, Fraser increased total sales by 21% while growing channel sales by over 35% year-over-year.  Prior to Panda Security, Fraser held the position of Vice President of Sales at Kaspersky Lab, an innovative developer of information security solutions that protect customers from a wide range of IT threats and enable enterprises to better manage risk.  In this position, Fraser was responsible for building the channel sales team from the ground up, as well as the VAR channel strategy.  Results included year-over-year channel sales growth-rates ranging from 192% to 446%.  Previously, Fraser held senior domestic and international sales management positions with Entegrity Solutions – during which time he increased average sales productivity by 225%; Beyond Inc. – where he successfully established the company’s international sales channels across Europe, Asia and Latin America; and Lotus – where his regions consistently ranked #1 in both direct and reseller sales revenue.  Thom Fraser graduated with honors from The University of Edinburgh, having majored in Business and Psychology.

AutoVirt today announced that it has appointed Thomas Fraser to the newly created position of Vice President of Sales.  R

eporting directly to AutoVirt’s President and CEO, Josh Klein, Fraser will be responsible for developing and executing the global sales and channel strategy, establishing and directing the external sales force, as well as growing and overseeing the inside sales team.

With over 25 years of domestic and international IT industry experience, in both direct and channel sales management positions – across the enterprise messaging, knowledge management and security markets, Thomas Fraser enjoys a unique depth and breadth of expertise.

Prior to joining AutoVirt, Fraser served as Vice President of Sales at Panda Security, a leading provider of cloud-based security solutions with products available in more than 23 languages and millions of users located in 195 countries around the world.  In this position, Fraser increased total sales by 21% while growing channel sales by over 35% year-over-year.  Prior to Panda Security, Fraser held the position of Vice President of Sales at Kaspersky Lab, an innovative developer of information security solutions that protect customers from a wide range of IT threats and enable enterprises to better manage risk.

In this position, Fraser was responsible for building the channel sales team from the ground up, as well as the VAR channel strategy.  Results included year-over-year channel sales growth-rates ranging from 192% to 446%.  Previously, Fraser held senior domestic and international sales management positions with Entegrity Solutions – during which time he increased average sales productivity by 225%; Beyond Inc. – where he successfully established the company’s international sales channels across Europe, Asia and Latin America; and Lotus – where his regions consistently ranked #1 in both direct and reseller sales revenue.

Fraser graduated with honors from The University of Edinburgh, having majored in Business and Psychology.