Shavlik Technologies, LLC, the market leader in simplifying complex enterprise network configuration, compliance and security, today announced that Rocco Donnino has been hired as vice president of worldwide business development. Donnino, a security industry veteran of over 20 years, will lead Shavlik's global business development team as the company expands its portfolio of technologies and strategic partnerships in 2008. Donnino reports directly to Chris Schwartzbauer, Shavlik's vice president of worldwide field operations.
Donnino comes to Shavlik from SurfControl PLC, where he was responsible for all global business development, and strategic initiatives for SurfControl's OEM and web filter billings through platform and OEM partnerships such as Microsoft, Juniper, Sophos, Blue Coat, Novell, Cisco and Check Point. Before joining SurfControl, Donnino was with Microsoft as part of the executive team from the Sybari Software acquisition where he was instrumental in helping Microsoft's Enterprise Access and Security Products Division establish a new worldwide security product offering and security sales force surrounding the technologies and assets from the Sybari Software acquisition now called the Microsoft Forefront.
Through his combined expertise in sales, strategic business planning, corporate and OEM development, partner and relationship management, he has consistently delivered strong and sustainable revenue gains. At Shavlik, Donnino will be responsible for increasing corporate revenue by developing and growing the company's OEM channel and strategic initiatives with partners such as Symantec, BMC Software, Microsoft, Juniper, VMware, and Sophos as well as creating new global system integrator partnerships for Shavlik's vulnerability management, security policy compliance, and configuration management solutions.
"Shavlik has built an impressive portfolio of security technologies that are easy to integrate, deploy and manage. Their global reputation for being the market leader in network patch management, vulnerability assessment and policy management is unparalleled in the industry, said Donnino. "Shavlik continues to meet the growing demands of enterprise network security and compliance. I am delighted to be joining the company at such a critical point in Shavlik's successful growth and partner strategy.
"Over the last year, Shavlik has dramatically expanded its product portfolio and technologies to offer a full range of solutions for our partners and our customers, said Schwartzbauer. "Rocco's depth of industry knowledge and successful track record in sales, corporate and business development make him a perfect fit for our long term strategy for the organization. We're thrilled to have Rocco as part of our executive management team and we look forward to his contributions to evolve Shavlik into an even greater company.
About Shavlik Technologies
Shavlik Technologies, LLC is the market leader in the simplification of complex enterprise network configuration, compliance and security. Shavlik's solutions support an organization's need for Active Vulnerability Management®- the automated and continual process for preventing, detecting, and removing critical security threats from corporate networks while maintaining policy-driven security configurations.
Founded in 1993, Shavlik Technologies is the de facto industry standard for patch management solutions. With more than 10,000 customers worldwide, Shavlik is trusted to provide the most up-to-date security patch data and the most comprehensive discovery capability to maintain a customer's overall network security integrity. Company CEO Mark Shavlik is a founder of the patch management industry as he teamed with Microsoft in 1999 to create the patch engine for Microsoft Base Security Analyzer (MBSA). This technology is still used by an installed base of millions of users across the globe. Shavlik also licenses its technology to more than 20 leading security companies such as IBM, BMC, Symantec and iPass. Shavlik's products have won multiple awards from leading industry trade journals. For more information, contact Shavlik at www.shavlik.com or call 1-800-690-6911 or +1- 612-331-6737.
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