Actiance Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of Two Key Executives

Oct. 18, 2011 - PRLog -- BELMONT, Calif – October 18, 2011 – Actiance, enablers of the safe and compliant use of unified communications, collaboration and Web 2.0, today announced the addition of two key executives to further propel Actiance as a leader in social media and real-time communications enablement and compliance, and extend the company’s international reach. The company has named Allan Peters as senior vice president of worldwide sales, and Scott Whitney as vice president, product management

Peters will drive the expansion of Actiance’s global sales program to increase its reach through international, indirect and direct channel expansion. He brings over 18 years of national and international senior sales and leadership experience, and has held executive management roles at start-up companies and established technology market leaders. Prior to joining Actiance, Peters led worldwide sales for systems and security endpoint management provider, BigFix, acquired by IBM in July 2010. Previously, Peters was CEO of Gamma Enterprise Technologies which was acquired by Applimation, and senior vice president of sales at SecurityFocus which was acquired by Symantec.  Peters has led enterprise sales teams for Symantec and Computer Associates.

Whitney brings a wealth of product management experience, serving as general manager for hosted archiving services at Iron Mountain, before joining Actiance. Prior to Iron Mountain, he led marketing and product management for on-premises email archive vendors, Mimosa Systems and Symantec. He will be responsible for guiding Actiance’s overall product and positioning strategy, ensuring the company continues to deliver market-leading solutions.

“We are proud to have Allan, and Scott join our executive team,” said Kailash Ambwani, CEO, Actiance. “Their unique skill sets, international industry experience and individual track records of success make each a natural fit as Actiance builds on the 60 percent year on year growth that we’ve seen from 2009 to 2010 – as we cement our leadership position in security, management and compliance of unified communications, collaboration and social media.”

For more information on Actiance or its products, please visit http://www.actiance.com/. Actiance is on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/actiance. To read the company’s blog, please visit: http://blog.actiance.com/.

About Actiance
Actiance enables the safe and productive use of Unified Communications, collaboration and Web 2.0, including blogs and social networking sites. Formerly FaceTime Communications, Actiance’s award-winning platforms are used by 9 of the top 10 US banks and more than 1600 organizations globally for the security, management and compliance of unified communications, Web 2.0 and social media channels. Actiance supports all leading social networks, unified communications providers and IM platforms, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter AOL, Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Microsoft, IBM and Cisco.

Actiance is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit http://www.actiance.com or call 888-349-3223.

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