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Sendmail Appoints Donald J. Massaro as President and CEO
Silicon Valley Veteran Drives Next Generation of Secure Messaging and Compliance Solutions
EMERYVILLE, Calif. – September 20, 2006 – Sendmail, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise solutions for secure, dependable and compliant messaging, today announced that Donald J. Massaro has joined the company as president and chief executive officer. In his new position, Mr. Massaro is responsible for strategic planning and execution, and corporate leadership to establish Sendmail as a market leader in the emerging content security market.
“Don is a rare breed of CEO,” said William Harding, lead investor and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Venture Partners. “As a Silicon Valley veteran, Don's experience and proven track record of building companies in fast-growing, emerging markets will be invaluable to Sendmail. We are excited to have him drive Sendmail’s next generation of secure messaging and compliance solutions."
Mr. Massaro brings to Sendmail more than 30 years of success building and managing both public and privately-held technology companies. Most recently, he held the position of CEO and co-founder at Reconnex Corporation, a provider of content-monitoring security appliances.
“Most of the world’s complex messaging infrastructures in operation today rely on Sendmail products and services,” said Massaro. “I am excited to join Sendmail at a time when these companies are beginning to experience more complex security and compliance issues in order to protect the content that is both entering and exiting their organizations. The next-generation of Sendmail secure messaging and compliance solutions will enable our customers to trust email again, while continuing to protect their brands and reputations.”
Mr. Massaro began his career at Shugart Associates, where as founder and CEO created the low cost disk drive market, initially with the floppy disk drive and then with the low cost hard disk drive. Xerox acquired Shugart Associates in 1978. In 1979 Mr. Massaro was appointed President of the Office Products Division of Xerox with the charter of making Xerox the leader in the emerging Office Automation Market. As head of the Office Products Division (XOPD), he created a business unit to develop and market products based on the technologies developed at Xerox’s famed Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). In 1981 XOPD announced Ethernet and the Star Information System that incorporated and introduced the world to a number of office technologies that have become standards: Ethernet, the Iconic Desktop, Client-Server Architecture, Electronic Printing, etc.
After Xerox, Mr. Massaro was a founder (1982) and CEO of Metaphor Computer System, which developed and marketed high-end client-server data-interpretation system to large corporations, primarily in consumer packaged goods. IBM acquired metaphor in 1991. He was also CEO of Silicon Gaming (SGIC), a company that developed an advanced multimedia gaming platform for the Casino Industry, MainStreet Networks and Array Networks.
Mr. Massaro graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He received a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University and was a PhD candidate at the University of California at Berkeley.
About Sendmail, Inc. Sendmail, Inc. is a global provider of enterprise solutions for secure, dependable, and compliant messaging. Based on the world’s first Internet mail server, sendmail, developed 25 years ago by Eric Allman, Sendmail solutions help organizations eliminate unwanted messages, effectively manage their mail stream, and address regulatory compliance and corporate governance requirements. Customers across 33 countries and the majority of the Fortune 1000, rely on Sendmail to manage their end-to-end email security an

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