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Edward Thompson
and Tom
Bevilacqua
Join InnoPath Board of Directors
Strengthened Board to Better Position Company for Future Growth
Sunnyvale, California, November
13, 2008 – InnoPath Software, the
leader in Mobile Device Management (MDM), today
announced the addition of Edward Thompson and
Tom Bevilacqua to the company’s board
of directors.
Edward Thompson will be Chairman of the Audit
Committee, a position he also holds on the boards
of ShoreTel, Inc., Harris Stratex Networks, Inc.
and SonicWALL, Inc. He has served as a senior
advisor to Fujitsu Limited and as a director
of several Fujitsu subsidiaries or portfolio
companies since 1995. From 1976 to 1994, Mr.
Thompson held a series of management positions
with Amdahl Corporation including Chief Financial
Officer and Secretary from August 1983 to June
1994, and Chief Executive Officer of Amdahl Capital
Corporation from October 1985 to June 1994. Mr.
Thompson is a member of the Advisory Board of
Santa Clara University’s Leavey School
of Business and holds a B.S. in aeronautical
engineering from the University of Illinois,
and an M.B.A. with an emphasis in operations
research from Santa Clara University.
Tom Bevilacqua joins the InnoPath board as
a representative of VantagePoint Venture Partners,
an InnoPath investor, replacing Eric Ver Ploeg.
Tom has more than 25 years of Silicon Valley
experience as an executive, venture investor
and advisor to technology driven companies. He
co-founded ArrowPath Venture Partners, a successful
early stage venture capital fund, and has served
as a Managing Partner of that firm for the past
seven years. Prior to ArrowPath, he served as
an Executive Vice President of E*TRADE Financial,
where he established E*TRADE’s acquisition
and investment strategies. He was previously
a Partner at two of Silicon Valley’s leading
law firms and has served as an advisor of more
than 200 public or private financings. He is
a graduate of the University of California at
Berkeley (BS) and the University of California,
Hastings College of the Law (JD).
“Ed Thompson and Tom Bevilacqua bring
years of operating and financial experience to
InnoPath, experience that we will leverage across
the management team as we continue to build InnoPath
into the category leader in Mobile DM,” said
John Fazio, President and CEO of InnoPath. With
the world’s first commercial FOTA deployment,
years of successful experience in global Tier
1 operators, 21 patents and eight consecutive
quarters of profitability, the company has been
received numerous awards including the Deloitte
Silicon Valley Fast 50 and AlwaysOn AO Global
250.
About InnoPath
InnoPath Software is the global leader in Mobile
Device Management, a technology that enables
wireless operators to better and more cost effectively
manage and deliver revenue-generating services
for consumers and enterprises. InnoPath’s
standards-based approach has proven successful
at the largest wireless operators in the world,
including AT&T, China Unicom, KDDI and Verizon
Wireless. The InnoPath client has been adopted
by leading handset manufacturers including Pantech,
Samsung, and LG. InnoPath was recently recognized
by AlwaysOn as an AO Global 250 Winner and by
the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
as one of the 50 fastest growing companies in
Silicon Valley. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California,
InnoPath is privately held with offices around
the world. For more information, visit www.innopath.com .
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