Anti-Tamper Software Security Firm also Names Joshua Pincus as Sales Engineer
SAN JOSE, Calif. , Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Metaforic, a leading provider of anti-tamper solutions today announced the appointment of Steven Goodison as U.S. vice president of sales. Goodison is responsible for leading the company's U.S. sales organization, forging new market opportunities and creating synergies across all distribution channels. Goodison brings 20 years of experience in enterprise technology sales, where he focused on building national sales teams, selling new technology solutions direct to early adopters and managing major accounts.
"Steve possesses a highly successful track record in high-value sales both directly and indirectly through strategic partnerships," said Andrew McLennan , CEO, Metaforic. "His unique experience in both direct sales and management is invaluable to us as we build out our sales and marketing effort. We look forward to his contributions as we work to extend our reach in the U.S. and further execute on our aggressive business plan."
Prior to Metaforic, Goodison has held numerous sales and management positions with several leading technology companies including Tivoli Systems, Network Physics, SupportSoft, IBM and HP. He's been an integral part of developing a number of early stage technology start-ups to successful acquisitions or IPOs. During his career, he has consistently delivered some of the largest sales deals and customer contracts to emerging companies.
"It's great to join a company with an innovative approach to the long-standing issue of security," said Goodison. "It is clearer than ever that safeguarding your application will continue to be among the most important, mission-critical applications in the market. Being able to bring the benefits of MetaFortress to the U.S. market is an exciting opportunity because of the strength and unique capabilities of the product. Both Josh and I look forward to working with enterprise-class customers on their security needs."
Metaforic is also announcing the appointment of Joshua Pincus to the positions of sales engineer and senior developer. He will be responsible for providing technical expertise related to new and existing customer security requirements with a research emphasis on secure computing for virtual environments. Pincus' start-up experience focuses on product architecture for both embedded and user-facing application products for the inventory management and surveillance markets.
Prior to joining Metaforic, Pincus was a systems architect consultant. He worked for eight years at Sun Microsystems, specializing in the design and development of SPARC hypervisor firmware and Solaris device drivers. He was also at Voltage Security, where he helped the company port its innovative email security solution from Linux to Solaris and from ia32 to SPARC.
"We are delighted that we have two very experienced professionals to lead our sales effort in the U.S.," said McLennan. "With the current state of the economy, security solutions are more important than ever and our efforts to bring a comprehensive anti-tampering solution to the U.S. will be well served with this experienced team."
Both Pincus and Goodison will be located in Metaforic's San Jose office.
About Metaforic's Solution
Metaforic's first commercially available product, MetaFortress, is a software anti-tamper solution that protects applications from piracy and illegal use by utilizing a network of thousands of cross-referenced checks, which can take years of painstaking work to remove. MetaFortress is the result of a five-year research project funded by the Scottish government to combat the staggering problem of software piracy that contributes to an estimated
About Metaforic
Headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland , with offices in San Jose, Calif. , Metaforic develops anti-tamper products to protect all types of software application, including DRM Systems, Endpoint Security Systems, Open Source Software, Client Applications and License Management Systems. Metaforic was recently named by Network World as one of 2008's top ten IT security companies to watch. MetaFortress armors applications from the inside out, preventing and protecting against all forms of tampering, piracy and the most sophisticated hacking attacks. Metaforic's revolutionary software is easy to use and offers extreme protection with near zero performance impact. Further information is available at Metaforic's website www.metaforic.com.
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