News & Events: Peter Ballas Named VP of Sales
News & Events
Xceedium Strengthens Senior Management Team - Names Peter H. Ballas Vice President Of Sales
Brings Strong Relationships & Successful Track Record Working with Financial and Government Sectors’ Leaders
Jersey City, NJ – March 20, 2007 – Xceedium Inc., the established market-maker in vendor access control solutions that enable companies to cost-effectively and remotely secure manage, control and contain "Untrusted Users" mission-critical infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Peter H. Ballas to Vice President of Sales. Ballas will leverage his twenty-plus years of experience selling to large financial services, government, telecommunications and other large enterprise organizations to sell Xceedium’s advanced solutions that incorporate patent-pending technology.
"Peter is an experienced professional in our industry and in our target markets with a proven track record," said Cheryl Traverse, President and Chief Executive Officer of Xceedium. "His years of experience in both domestic and global markets will be a tremendous asset to Xceedium, as he leads our sales team into the next stage of growth."
Ballas will be responsible for building on Xceedium's success in its core target markets, while expanding the company into new industry sectors and channels. He also will spearhead vertical sales efforts as Xceedium releases new products.
"As the reliance on outsourcing business models to save costs escalates, so does the need for centralized access solutions that mitigate risk, protect critical infrastructure and deliver tracking for audit and compliance," said Ballas. "I look forward to helping Xceedium build on its position as the premier solutions provider for vendor access control and secure centralized management of IT operations." He built a high performance sales team and grew revenues to more than $20 Million in the security and networking spaces. Prior to joining Xceedium, Ballas was Vice President-Northeast Region of Configuresoft, where he was responsible for building a sales team and growing revenues, and he was instrumental in closing major accounts in the financial services and retail industries.
Over the span of his nearly twenty five year career, Ballas worked for an extensive list of technology companies, including Prime Computer, Epoch Systems, Raptor Systems, Aventail, Q1 Labs and most recently Configuresoft.
About Xceedium Inc.
Xceedium, Inc. is the market maker in vendor access control solutions. Top US Government agencies and Fortune 200 global corporations have deployed Xceedium's GateKeeper to centrally manage, control and contain access to mission critical resources by "Untrusted Users". Their IT departments confidently bridge the gap between security entitlement policies and security practices while still allowing these users the ability to work with the tools they use today. Any company gains the ability to contain this difficult to manage user group, increases overall security while improving operational efficiency for line level administrators. GateKeeper’s centralized management platform provides all inclusive compartmentalized access down to the socket layer for command line and graphical interfaces. Users benefit from real time alerts, leapfrogging prevention to unauthorized areas and comprehensive session logging for audit and compliance. The GateKeeper is a virtual operations center that adds flexibility, increases efficiency and lowers cost. It provides a centralized end-to-end infrastructure view, plus places all the necessary access tools and methods at the IT operators’ fingertips. Using patent pending technology, Xceedium provides a comprehensive security envelope that limits entrants solely to authorized areas. The GateKeeper tracks all activities in the data center. Xceedium is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ. Please visit www.Xceedium.com or email info@Xceedium.com for information.
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Media Contact:
Michael Vallone
Xceedium
877-636-5803, x149
mvallone@Xceedium.com