zvelo Hires John Tennant as VP of Business Development

PRLog (Press Release) - Nov. 16, 2011 - Greenwood Village, Colo. – zvelo, Inc., a leading provider of website categorization, URL database (zveloDB™) and zero-hour malicious website detection solutions for the OEM market, has hired John Tennant as its Vice President of Business Development.  Mr. Tennant will be responsible for fostering new technology partnerships with OEMs that offer web content filtering, spam filtering, enterprise and SMB network security, desktop and mobile anti-virus software, parental controls products, advertising inventory vetting, web analytics and other emerging services.

"John has a solid understanding of the URL database and web content categorization industry," said Jeff Finn, CEO of zvelo.  "His proven track record and success in selling highly specialized content categorization technologies to the OEM markets align nicely with zvelo’s business growth plan, and we look forward to his contributions."

Mr. Tennant boasts over 20 years of experience within executive sales roles at SurfControl (acquired by Websense), Brighcloud, Commtouch and Netsweeper, where he led efforts to license URL database offerings to OEM Partners with each of these companies.

About zvelo, Inc.
zvelo is a leading provider of website categorization, URL database (zveloDB), malicious website detection and reputation blocklist solutions. zvelo licenses its zveloDB exclusively through OEM Partnerships with service providers (ISP/MSSP, mobile, etc.), endpoint security and anti-virus vendors, UTM and gateway appliance vendors, content and URL filtering vendors, advertising network providers, and other high growth market segments where accuracy, coverage, malicious website detection and instant protection, and fast URL query performance are required. To learn more, visit https://zvelo.com.