New Appointment Strengthens Narus’ Leadership Team and Helps Drive Continued Innovation
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—March 14, 2006—Narus, Inc. today announced the appointment of Murali Sitaram as vice president of world wide engineering. Sitaram brings extensive global experience successfully evolving and delivering innovative technologies to Narus’ engineering teams in Mountain View, Calif. and Bangalore, India.
Sitaram joins Narus most recently from Aspect Communications, where he managed an extended team of engineers and was responsible for many of the company’s core product lines. During his tenure there, Sitaram was a key contributor in forming Aspect’s vision and strategy. One of his key contributions at Aspect was to architect the company’s offshore development strategy.
Prior to Aspect, Sitaram held positions including vice president of Research and Development for CRM at Avaya, and as senior vice president of engineering at Quintus Corporation. During his tenure at Avaya, Sitaram was responsible for all engineering and technology-related activities for the company’s CRM products and managed a team of nearly 500 engineers at various locations world wide. Under his leadership, the team surpassed their goals in product delivery and customer satisfaction.
“Murali is a first-rate leader with a proven track record of converting ideas into profitable business opportunities,” said Greg Oslan, CEO of Narus. “Murali will be a tremendous asset to Narus as we continue on our company’s dramatic growth path.”
“Joining Narus just as Services over IP achieves prominence in the telecommunications industry, is an incredible opportunity,” said Sitaram. “Narus brings unique vision to the IP marketplace with an unparalleled system that has demonstrated financial and technical benefits to their carrier and government customers. This role will allow me to contribute to an outstanding executive management team as we continue to push the limits of innovation.”
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.
Kathleen Shanahan
Boca Communications
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