CipherMax Appoints VP of Sales to Capitalize on Growing Storage Security Market Opportunity
Jack LeWinter to Expand Channel Sales and OEM Efforts
San Jose, Calif., – July 25, 2007 – CipherMax®, Inc., the technology leader of enterprise-class storage security solutions, today announced that Jack LeWinter has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. LeWinter will leverage over two decades of experience in the storage industry to broaden CipherMax’s share of the rapidly growing storage security market. LeWinter will drive the company’s direct sales, OEM and reseller strategies as well as oversee the execution of sales teams in North America.
“We have reached the nexus between the storage and security markets,” said Ray Kao, chairman & CEO of CipherMax. “Security is fast becoming a requirement for every storage product, which is heating up market demand and strategic alliances for storage security solutions. Jack’s extensive background in storage coupled with his proven business experience in sales and strategic partnerships will enable us to capture this fast emerging market opportunity effectively.”
“CipherMax is uniquely positioned to address the difficult solution requirements inherent in the convergence of storage, security and networking,” said Jack LeWinter. “Most companies want to implement storage security, but they need a solution that offers a viable migration path to encryption while minimizing the impact on IT. CipherMax offers the only product line that enables companies to migrate from unencrypted storage environments to secure storage environments by using CM products as storage encryption appliances, or encryption SAN fabrics, or encryption modules of storage systems. This offers the customers the ultimate flexibility to deploy storage security within any network environment.”
LeWinter brings 27 years of storage experience to CipherMax. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Business Development and Sales for InMage Systems, a leader in the continuous data protection software market. At InMage, LeWinter built and directed a team of sales and system engineers, growing revenues through expanded end user sales, OEM sales, and reseller and integrator strategic relationships.
LeWinter’s background also includes sales management positions at AMCC, QLogic and Sony Electronics, where he focused on driving both domestic and international OEM and value added reseller programs. At QLogic, LeWinter led a team of 17 people responsible for the company’s largest OEM customer, with annual revenues of $92 million. LeWinter has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Colorado and Bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Speech Communication from the State University College in New York.
About CipherMax, Inc.
CipherMax, Inc. is the technology leader of enterprise-class storage security solutions. The CM product line has been designed to protect medium to large volumes of data on tape and disk from unauthorized viewing or tampering and address information regulatory compliance relative to information confidentiality. The company has developed the only Storage Security solution that offers the flexibility of deploying encryption in switching mode, transparent controller mode or discovery mode. The CM product family can scale from 16 to hundreds of encrypting ports, which are centrally managed through a single graphical interface. The unique CM solution also provides the convenience of remote key management and cost-effectively scales to meet the requirements of medium to large, distributed storage networks. Founded in 2000, CipherMax is headquartered in San Jose, California. CipherMax business and technical teams are from Cisco, EMC, HP, McData, NetApp and Symantec.
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