Protegrity Appoints Kyle Pond as Vice President of Market Development

Protegrity Appoints Kyle Pond as Vice President of Market
Development
Experienced Software Executive Joins Data and Storage Security Firm 


STAMFORD, Conn., Oct. 19  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Protegrity Corporation, the
leading technology innovator for enterprise-wide database and storage security,
has appointed Kyle Pond to vice president of market development. Pond, formerly
a research director at Gartner, Inc., has held key marketing and business
development positions at several software companies including Delano Technology
Corporation, a provider of customer relationship management software.  Before
joining Protegrity, he was vice president of corporate development at Conduit
Internet Technologies, Inc., a provider of channel management applications to
the middle market.

At Protegrity, Pond will be responsible for managing channel sales, lead
generation activities, and inside sales. He will also identify and develop new
markets for Protegrity through building strategic business alliances with
technology and implementation service providers, as well as market leaders.

"Kyle brings to Protegrity extensive technology marketing experience and a
broad understanding of business needs and technology markets.  His Gartner
experience gives him unique insight into enterprise-level security challenges
and will help us partner with key decision makers of Global 2000 companies,"
said Protegrity CEO Gordon Rapkin.  "He is exceptionally skilled at developing
strategic partnerships, which will help us move into new markets and
industries."

Companies implement Protegrity's solutions to centrally define and manage
enterprise data security policies and comply with current and emerging
regulations such as HIPAA, California SB 1386, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Visa's
Cardholder Information Security Program (Visa CISP).  Protegrity's flagship
software product, Secure.Data (TM), selectively encrypts sensitive data at the
data-item level both at rest and in-transit.  Secure.Data delivers a unique
combination of strong data protection and extensive auditing and reporting
capabilities, without impacting existing applications and IT infrastructure.

At Conduit, Pond managed both marketing and business development and instituted
highly effective programs to support customers, resellers, and technical
partnerships.  During his tenure, he was an instrumental player in generating a
four-fold increase in annual revenues.

"I am very excited to be joining this very experienced software team.  It is
clear that companies are in need of a product that can centralize the
management of security policy, regulatory compliance, auditing and reporting in
a single, platform-independent application. I've already seen substantial
channel interest from partners who are currently seeking more efficient and
effective ways of addressing data and storage security for their customers,"
said Pond.

About Protegrity

Protegrity Corporation is the leading innovator of enterprise-wide database and
storage security.  The company's flagship product Secure.Data enables companies
to deploy comprehensive security policies that empower management to
confidently take responsibility of their sensitive data.  With Secure.Data,
businesses can mitigate corporate risk and assure compliance with regulatory
obligations.  Protegrity's solutions are platform independent and are designed
to protect information wherever it resides in today's highly distributed
computing environments.

For more than eight years, Protegrity's award-winning technology has helped
more than 60 customers, including many of the Fortune 100, address and resolve
critical security challenges.  Protegrity invented the core technology used for
data-level encryption and owns the key patents for database intrusion
protection.  Protegrity is wholly owned by Xcelera Inc. (AMEX:XLA). For more
information, visit http://www.protegrity.com/.

Secure.Data is a trademark of Protegrity Corporation.  All other trademarks are
the property of their respective owners. 

DATASOURCE: Protegrity Corporation



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