Reconnex Names Gary Taggart as Vice President of Sales
and Support
Industry Veteran Will Spearhead Company’s Rapid Growth Among Fortune 1000 Customers, Government Agencies, and Educational Institutions
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., November 7, 2006
CORE NEWS FACTS
- Gary Taggart has been appointed vice president of sales and support for Reconnex.
- Taggart will be responsible for increasing the company’s already strong sales momentum in the U.S and for bringing Reconnex 5.0 to markets worldwide. Reconnex customers include Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and educational institutions.
- In addition Taggart will lead the growth of Reconnex’s support and professional services organization to exceed customer expectations.
- Taggart’s ability to plan and execute at both the strategic and tactical levels, his dynamic and motivational leadership, and his experience selling into Fortune 1000 accounts, combined with Reconnex’s early success, will help lead Reconnex to market leadership.
- According to a security spending survey by Goldman Sachs, internal threats are the second largest driver of security spending, at 68 percent. To combat these internal threats, 72 percent of those surveyed will look to deploy technology to prevent data leakage.
- Reconnex’s iGuard appliance is the most complete solution on the market, defending valuable intellectual property and confidential data against threats before, during, and after exposure.
- The iGuard secures sensitive data at rest, before a threat becomes real; protects it during transmission, when the risk of abuse or misuse is highest; and helps IT identify and address unforeseen threats after they occur.
- To extend the utility of its content-aware iGuard appliance, Reconnex partners with such leading companies as PostX (email encryption appliance), Extreme Networks (Ethernet switching solutions), ArcSight (security information management platform), and EMC (enterprise content management). The company has taken a standards-based approach to email gateway integration by partnering with Barracuda, IronPort, and SendMail.
About Taggart
- Taggart was most recently the senior vice president of sales and marketing at Cyberguard Corp., which was acquired by Secure Computing. He led the company to five quarters of consecutive growth, and helped grow revenues 38 percent from FY2005 to FY2006, to $66.1 million.
- As general manager, the Americas, for Webwasher AG, Taggart established a $6 million run rate business within 18 months while revitalizing the company’s strategic worldwide relationship with Network Appliance.
- Taggart has also held senior executive positions at Solid Data Systems, Inc.; Amplify.net, Inc.; Secure Computing, Inc.; Eicon Technology, Inc.; and Storage Dimensions, Inc.
- He holds an MBA in marketing and finance and a BA in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
COMMENTARY
- John K. Peters, President and CEO, Reconnex –“Gary has not only in-depth experience in the security market but also a proven track record of scaling companies of our size to the next stage of growth. Reconnex is looking to continue to accelerate our already rapid growth in sales, and Gary’s experience in all stages of a company’s development, from start-up to market leadership, is exactly what we need.”
- Gary Taggart, Vice President of Sales, Reconnex – “I was attracted to Reconnex because I see a huge opportunity in protecting information through data loss prevention, and the company takes a far broader and more complete approach to data protection than its competitors. No other solution is able to protect valuable intellectual property as well as fixed-format data such as Social Security numbers. Increasingly, enterprises are realizing they need to protect their IP assets, so the market is ripe for Reconnex.”
About Reconnex
Reconnex is the leader in information monitoring and protection appliances designed for any organization – including enterprises, government agencies or educational institutions – that wants to protect its brand, maintain compliance, or secure sensitive information. Reconnex’s simple-to-deploy appliance delivers accurate detection while protecting an enterprise before, during, and after any threat to corporate privacy or intellectual property. A privately held company based in Silicon Valley, Calif., Reconnex protects information for over one million users today. For more information about Reconnex, please visit www.reconnex.net or call 866-940-4590.
For more information about Reconnex, please visit www.reconnex.net or call 866-940-4590.
