Exinda Inc. Expands Product Strategy and Delivery Leadership with Two Key Additions to its Executive Team

) April 17, 2009 -- Exinda Inc., a leading global provider of WAN optimization and application acceleration solutions, today announced two key appointments to its Product and Development teams. Edward Ryan has joined Exinda as Vice President, Products and Cheryl Davis as Director of Development. "Having Ed and Cheryl onboard strengthens Exinda's leadership team by adding two professionals experienced in designing and delivering high quality products to market," said Michael Sharma, Chief Executive Officer. "These key additions demonstrate our continued focus and commitment to defining, developing and delivering user-centric products to the marketplace. This is also the first of what I expect to be a number of exciting developments which we will be communicating to our customers and partners in the coming months."


As Vice President of Products, Ed Ryan is responsible for Exinda's Product Management, Development and Support organizations. Ed brings 20 years of experience in leading product strategy and development teams to successfully build and deliver products to market that drive profitable growth. Prior to joining Exinda, Ed was responsible for Product Management and Product Marketing at Control4 Inc, a home automation provider where he focused on the development of new products while driving product quality. His demonstrated achievements span small start-up organizations to billion dollar companies, including Citrix Systems Inc, Novell Inc, and Platform Computing.

Having Ed and Cheryl onboard strengthens Exinda's leadership team by adding two professionals experienced in designing and delivering high quality products to market

These key additions demonstrate our continued focus and commitment to defining, developing and delivering user-centric products to the marketplace. This is also the first of what I expect to be a number of exciting developments which we will be communicating to our customers and partners in the coming months.

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Cheryl Davis oversees the design, development, and quality testing of Exinda products. Cheryl brings 20 years of experience spanning all areas of the software development lifecycle. Most recently with Quest Software, Cheryl spent 8 years overseeing the development of multiple products as the Senior Development Manager, where she was responsible for product revenue growth as well as sustaining the popularity of flagship products.


About Exinda:
Exinda is a global provider of WAN optimization and application acceleration products. Exinda has helped over 2,000 organizations worldwide reduce network operating costs and ensure consistent application performance over the WAN. Exinda's unified performance management (UPM) solution encompasses application visibility, control, optimization and intelligent acceleration - all within a single network appliance that is affordable and easy to manage.

Founded in 2002, Exinda is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with regional offices in Canada and the United Kingdom. Research and Development is centralized in Melbourne, Australia. To learn more about Exinda's award-winning solutions for enterprise, education and service provider clients, contact your local reseller or visit www.exinda.com.


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