FORT LEE, N.J., June 2, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Whale Communications, the leading SSL VPN solutions vendor, today announced that Gamiel Gran has joined the company as Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances.
Most recently, Gran was Vice President of Strategic Alliance Sales at BEA Systems, a leading application infrastructure software company. While at BEA Systems, Gran oversaw the development of a global partner plan and was responsible for establishing and executing strategic partnerships. He also managed more than 200 alliance and channel team members worldwide. Previously, Gran was Vice President of Business Development at Asera Inc., a Kleiner-Perkins founded ecommerce infrastructure software company. While at Asera Inc., he helped extend the company's global market reach by developing and executing strategic partnerships with channels, alliances and integrators. Prior to this Gran was at Oracle where he developed Oracle's mid-market channel strategy known as the All Indirect Model. He began his career in sales and business development at IBM where he spent nearly a decade.
"We are pleased to have someone with Gamiel's track record of success in building partnerships join our executive team," said Whale CEO Elad Baron. "Gamiel's vast experience developing successful large-scale enterprise relationships will serve to accelerate our plans to be the dominant provider in the SSL VPN space. His more than two decades of experience in business and strategic alliance development will benefit us as we continue to expand our leadership in the market through a network of partnerships.
"The significant growth in this market provides one of the most intriguing partnering opportunities in the information technology market today," said Gran. "With its highly secure e-Gap(r) technology Whale is setting the standard for SSL VPN solutions in the enterprise remote access market. I look forward to help bolstering Whale's strategic partnerships to maintain its lead as the most secure and robust solution in the SSL VPN sector," said Gran.
Enterprises worldwide are using Whale's award-winning SSL VPN products to deliver remote access to corporate applications without jeopardizing the network's security or compromising the information being accessed. Whale's e-Gap products are cost-effective and easy to manage alternatives to traditional IPSec VPNs. Unlike an IPSec VPN, the e-Gap Remote Access Appliance is a clientless solution, enabling access from any browser.
About Whale Communications:
Whale Communications, the leading SSL VPN vendor, is enabling enterprises to provide employees and partners secure access to corporate data and applications from any web browser. Its award-winning solutions have been securing enterprises worldwide since it was founded in 1998. Privately held, Whale is funded by prominent venture firms and industry leaders, including Goldman Sachs, Soros Private Equity Partners and the BRM Group, the founding investor of Check Point Software Technologies. The company is headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey and has international offices in Israel and Germany.
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