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SenSage Strengthens Management Team with New Executive Appointments SAN FRANCISCO – March 20, 2007 – SenSage, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise event data management solutions, today announced the appointments of Rick Schultz as vice president of worldwide sales and Ed Chopskie as vice president of corporate marketing. The addition of these seasoned executives to the SenSage management team strengthens the company’s leadership and focus on driving technology innovation to meet the growing need for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions and other compliance offerings that allow companies to efficiently store and quickly find relevant data. “Rick and Ed bring leadership skills that were acquired through hands-on experience at emerging and large software companies,” said Jim Pflaging, president and CEO of SenSage. “They will play key roles as we ramp up global sales, marketing and support initiatives to address the increasing domestic and international opportunities for event data management solutions.” Schultz brings more than 25 years of experience managing global sales teams and executing successful direct and channel sales strategies. Before joining SenSage, he served as vice president of worldwide sales at Fox Technologies, a compliance controls software provider. Prior to that, he served as vice president of worldwide sales at Postini, where he built the enterprise sales team and was responsible for expanding sales growth in all channels. Schultz has also led major account and alliance sales teams at Cable & Wireless America, and served as vice president for worldwide sales and professional services at Digital Island before it was acquired by Cable & Wireless. He is a graduate of DePaul University in Chicago and holds an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco. Chopskie’s career spans more than 15 years of experience in worldwide marketing, sales and product development. Before joining SenSage, he served as vice president of marketing for Creekpath, which was acquired by Opsware in August 2006. Prior to Creekpath, Chopskie was vice president of marketing at asset management visionary BDNA Corporation. He was with Peregrine Systems for nine years in marketing and development leadership roles, which led to a successful IPO for the company in 1997. Chopskie was also with BMC Software as part of the Patrol product line launch team, and gained real-world IT experience from working for transportation conglomerate CSX, which deployed one of the largest computing environments on the East Coast. He holds a B.A. in economics from the University of North Florida, and he has completed graduate-level finance and marketing studies at Stanford Business School and Harvard Business School. Chopskie also holds an ITIL executive-level certification. About SenSage SenSage, Inc. offers the only patented solution for enterprise event management for log management, compliance auditing and security information management applications. Over 200 customers have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce the risks associated with insider threats, system downtime and failed audits by providing faster, more granular analysis of privileged user behavior and analyzing anomalies across network, system and application activity. Based in San Francisco, the company markets its solutions directly and through partners, including Cerner, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intec Billing Systems, Lockheed Martin, Network Appliance, Sendmail, and Tokyo Electron. For more information, please visit www.sensage.com. Media Contact Samantha Singh |
