Cemaphore chooses John Rafter, VP Operations and John Sutherland, VP Engineering
San Mateo, California - December 13, 2004
Cemaphore Systems™, a leading provider of Messaging Services Management (MSM) solutions, today announced the appointment of John Rafter as vice president, operations and John Sutherland as vice president, engineering. Rafter will direct customer support, manufacturing and fulfillment, and corporate information technology. Sutherland will lead product development and quality assurance.
“These appointments form the foundation for building solid software solutions and highly responsive customer support as Cemaphore now delivers MailShadow™ to customers,” says Tyrone Pike, president & CEO. “In addition, three new sales people have joined our sales team to drive revenue growth.”
John Rafter was a co-founder and COO of Black Pearl, Inc., an enterprise software company focused on the automation of complex decisions. During his five years at Black Pearl, he raised $24 million in venture capital and oversaw all financial, information technology and human resources operations. Prior to that, Rafter held a variety of management roles at Sun Microsystems, including managing operations for Sun’s IT Operations Services group. He also spent five years as a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco.
Prior to joining Cemaphore, John Sutherland was the managing director of IT development at Brigham Young University. Previously he held the position of operations vice president at LANDesk Software, Inc, where he oversaw the internal operations of the company including the transition of the LANDesk business from Intel. Sutherland served as general manager of the Intel Software Products and Services Division, helping to grow the LANDesk product line and increase its worldwide reach. Prior to Intel, he was a founder of Cericor, held management positions at HP, and worked at Evans & Sutherland designing computer graphics hardware.
About Cemaphore Systems, Inc.
Founded in April 2002, Cemaphore Systems, Inc., is a leading provider of messaging services management (MSM) solutions. The company is based in San Mateo, California, with development in Provo, Utah. Cemaphore has raised $19.4 million from Mayfield, Worldview Technology Partners, vSpring Capital, and individual investors. Cemaphore is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. For additional information, please call 650-227-5400 or visit the company’s Web site at www.cemaphore.com.
About MailShadow™
MailShadow eases the pain of Microsoft Exchange Server centralization by restoring LAN-speed messaging to remote offices. MailShadow intelligently replicates all Exchange content, including calendars, contacts, public folders and remote user mailboxes. Messages and other Exchange content can then be retrieved at LAN speeds by Outlook users who work at that remote location.
MailShadow is deployed on a Windows server at each remote site. Pricing is based on an annual fee for each Outlook client using the Exchange transaction cache.
For more information, contact:
Marty Hollander
650-227-5453
mhollander@cemaphore.com
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