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Press Release
Narus Announces Steve Bannerman as Vice President of Marketing
Industry Veteran Lends Marketing Acumen to Drive Strategy and Continued Growth
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—November 29, 2005—Narus, Inc. today announced the appointment of industry veteran Steve Bannerman as vice president of marketing. With more than 20 years of experience in sales and marketing in the technology industry, Bannerman will drive Narus’ brand and global marketing programs.
Prior to joining Narus, Bannerman was the founder and chief executive officer of Caststream, Inc., developer of the award-winning cast:stream enterprise e-learning and presentation broadcasting software. He led the acquisition of Caststream by Tarantella, Inc. in 2003. Following the acquisition of Tarantella, Bannerman was appointed chief marketing officer and general manager. In this role, he architected a global product, brand and marketing strategy that resulted in an acquisition by Sun Microsystems.
Bannerman also spent 12 years at Apple in various senior marketing positions, including director of marketing for QuickTime TV (QTV). In this role, he developed a revenue-producing business model for Apple’s streaming media network, with more than 100 top-tier content providers, including Disney, CNN, MTV, BBC, ESPN and Warner Music.
“Steve’s experience and proven track record as a true marketing leader will drive and broaden our established footprint in global IP and government networks,” said Greg Oslan, president and CEO, Narus. “As Narus continues to assert itself as the leader in unified IP Management and Security, the expansion of our global marketing will ensure that our strengths and value are well positioned. We welcome Steve as a key member of the Narus team as we take our business to the next level.”
“Narus has the enviable combination of strong management, unique market opportunity and strategic customers that marketing executives look for in a company,” said Bannerman. “My focus will be on leveraging these strengths to continue to fuel our dramatic growth by extending the Narus brand and value proposition.”
About Narus, Inc.
Narus is the leader in real-time traffic intelligence for large IP networks, and is the only company that provides security, intercept and traffic management solutions within a single, flexible system. With Narus, service providers, governments and large enterprises around the world can immediately detect, analyze, mitigate and target any unwanted, unwarranted or malicious traffic. Narus provides its customers with complete, real-time insight into all of their IP traffic from the network to the applications. Combined with the ability to enable numerous actions, Narus customers have the ability to take the most appropriate actions quickly.
Narus’ system protects and manages the largest IP networks around the world including AT&T, KT (Korea), KDDI (Japan), Telecom Egypt, Reliance (India), Saudi Telecom, US Cellular and Pakistan Telecom Authority. Narus is headquartered in Mountain View, California with regional offices around the world. For more information, please visit www.narus.com.
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