News & Events: CEO Named Finalist in Stevie Awards
News & Events
Xceedium CEO Named Finalist in Stevie Awards for Women in Business
Seasoned Professional Honored as Best Entrepreneur
Jersey City, NJ – Oct. 20, 2008 – Xceedium, Inc., the premier provider of entitlement management solutions that control high-risk users, announced today that its president and CEO, Cheryl Traverse, has been named a finalist in the 5th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business, in the category of Best Entrepreneur in Computer Hardware and Software.
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business was created to honor and generate public recognition for women executives, entrepreneurs, and the companies they manage. The Stevie Awards has made a name for itself as one of the world’s most coveted awards. This year it received over 1200 entries competing in 50 categories.
"It is an honor to be recognized by the Stevie Awards as a top entrepreneur," said Cheryl Traverse, CEO at Xceedium. "Throughout my career I have been firmly committed to building world-class teams and bringing leading technologies to market that automate business processes and improve security, and I am very pleased to receive this highly-prestigious award."
Xceedium GateKeeper 620 has all the unique and patent-pending technologies of the original Xceedium GateKeeper currently deployed in critical enterprise and government IT infrastructures worldwide. Xceedium GateKeeper 620 compartmentalizes and contains high-risk users, then monitors, alerts, remediates, logs, records, and reports on all their activities.
Cheryl Traverse joined Xceedium in November 2005 as president and CEO. Since then, Cheryl has achieved triple digit growth rates and solidified Xceedium’s market position as a leading provider of entitlement management solutions. In addition, she has set the strategic direction, focused the company on delivering satisfied customers and hired a top notch team to continue its growth. The recognition as a finalist for the Stevie Awards exemplifies Cheryl’s exceptional leadership.
About Xceedium, Inc.
Xceedium is the premier provider of entitlement management solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of controlling high-risk users. Employing unique and patent-pending technologies, the Xceedium GateKeeper™ line of hardened appliances enables companies to actively manage high-risk users by automating compliance reporting, managing outsourcing risk, providing secure and efficient access to remote infrastructure and controlling vendor access.
Xceedium solutions have gained wide acceptance in both the private and public sector, due largely to leading technologies specifically developed to address increased outsourcing and strict compliance regulations. Xceedium GateKeeper is deployed in the largest enterprise and government IT environments, as well as in branch offices, SMBs, departments and managed service providers. An ever-expanding client base includes household names in financial services, retail, healthcare, managed IT services and other key verticals, as well as strong representation across a wide spectrum of U.S. government and military IT facilities.
Xceedium is headquartered in Jersey City, N.J. For more information, visit www.xceedium.com, or email to info@xceedium.com.
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