SEPATON Names Mike Thompson as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing

MARLBOROUGH, MA – August 31, 2010 – SEPATON, Inc., the leader in enterprise-class disk-based data protection solutions, today announced the appointment of Mike Thompson to the company's executive management team as executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. In this capacity, Thompson will oversee all aspects of SEPATON's sales and marketing efforts as well as professional services. He will report directly to SEPATON President and CEO, Mike Worhach.
 
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"Mike is well respected in the industry, has exceptional credentials and the experience and leadership skills necessary to take our company to the next level," said Worhach. “I am extremely confident in his ability to grow revenue and to build a highly effective sales and marketing team.”
 
Reporting to Thompson will be worldwide sales, channel sales, sales operations, professional services and marketing functions. He brings to this position more than 25 years of sales and marketing experience in technology companies.  “This is an exciting time to be joining the company,” said Thompson.   “SEPATON recognized early on that enterprise customers need more than just disk-based backup. The company has invested significant engineering resources to create a “category killing” solution that provides the high performance, grid scalability, and content aware deduplication that are essential in an enterprise backup environment.  I look forward to helping SEPATON reach its full potential as we continue to bring this powerful technology to market.”
 
Thompson comes to SEPATON after serving as president, chief executive officer and chairman at Egenera Corporation. Before joining Egenera, Thompson was senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing and a member of the board of directors at Stratus Technologies, where he managed a 400-person operation that generated more than $700 million in annual revenues through direct and indirect channels.
 
Prior to Stratus, Thompson served as director of U.S. sales operations for the financial line of business at Tandem Computers.
 
Thompson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Southern Connecticut University.
 
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About SEPATON, Inc.
SEPATON’s data protection appliances deliver high performance solutions for backup, restore, deduplication, replication and disaster recovery that enable enterprises to ensure the right data is in the right place at the right time. SEPATON designed its unique DeltaScale™ architecture to enable all of its products to deliver grid scalability and unparalleled performance. SEPATON’s next-generation ContentAware™ approach provides advanced deduplication as well as intelligent monitoring and management of data throughout the complete data protection lifecycle. As a result, companies around the world rely on SEPATON products to provide the data asset protection and dynamic access to data that are critical to their business success and continuity. The company has offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia and partnerships with leading resellers and OEMs worldwide. For additional information call 866-SEPATON or visit http://www.sepaton.com.
 
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SEPATON, S2100, DeltaStor, and DeltaRemote are registered trademarks and ContentAware, DeltaView, DeltaScale, Secure Erasure, DeltaView Manager, and DeltaCache Recovery are trademarks of SEPATON, Inc. All other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.

 
Contact:
Beth Winkowski
SEPATON, Inc.
978-649-7189
bwinkowski@sepaton.com