KEMP Technologies Expands Management Roles in Response to Rapid ADC Growth & Increased Sales

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Dec 3, 2013) - KEMP Technologies, the leading provider of application-centric load-balancer solutions, appointed Dieter Huber as VP of Engineering, Mark Housman as VP of Sales-Americas and Joshua Lee as director of Strategic Alliances. The new leadership appointments are in response to KEMP's rapid expansion and skyrocketing sales of its LoadMaster virtual, software and hardware-based load balancers.

Dieter Huber joins KEMP from Corel GmbH and brings to the company 22 years of IT experience. He will be responsible for leading worldwide engineering and knowledge management, and bolstering the global engineering team. Dieter will spearhead the architecture of KEMP's LoadMaster product family as he guides the development of KEMP's products to meet the evolving application performance demands of enterprises.

As VP of Sales-Americas, Mark Housman will manage KEMP's sales teams in North and South America, and strengthen KEMP's partner ecosystem. Mark will focus on channels of distribution and avenues to enterprise customers, including resellers and provide oversight to KEMP's sales infrastructure.

Joshua Lee joins KEMP to provide market development expertise to the company's strategic alliance partners. Joshua is a Microsoft Certified Professional and former program strategist/product manager at Cisco. His scope is to expand cooperation with partners so that KEMP ADCs will be better positioned to immediately support mutual synergies starting with partner applications that ensure customers benefit from KEMP's cutting-edge technology advancements.

Executive Quote
"As enterprises increasingly recognize the innovative value of KEMP's virtual ADCs, we are seeing explosive global sales growth for application-specific load balancing," said Ray Downes, CEO of KEMP. "KEMP's high sales velocity is making it possible to attract great talent like that we are bringing on board in Dieter, Mark and Joshua to continue our success in better serving customers and to further grow and scale the business."

About KEMP Technologies
KEMP Technologies is the #1 price/performance load balancer and application delivery controller, used by thousands of businesses who consider IT, e-commerce, web and business applications as mission-critical to their long-term success. KEMP helps companies rapidly grow their business by providing 24/7 infrastructure availability, better web performance and secure operations -- while streamlining IT costs.

KEMP's LoadMaster products include Layers 4-7 load balancing, content switching, server persistence, SSL offload/acceleration, and application front-end capabilities (caching, compression, intrusion prevention system), plus one full year of product support -- delivering industry leading price/performance.

The company is headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit www.KEMPtechnologies.com, or call at +1 646-374-0060.