Privacy Networks provides enterprise-class unified messaging archive solutions that are simple, safe and affordable.

The solutions are designed to address the growing need for organizations to manage their electronically stored information being generated by unified messaging platforms that include email, instant messaging, voice, video and documents.

Privacy Networks solutions are available as rapid install appliances, hosted services or standalone software.

Privately held, Privacy Networks has offices in Louisville and Fort Collins, Colorado.

Companies and organizations of all types are being mandated to meet the new requirements for email driven by:

• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCPs)
• Open Records Requests for State & Local Governments
• Compliance with SEC Regulations 17a and b, HIPAA, GLBA
• Better Business Governance
• Employee workplace issues
• Protection of Intellectual property

Privacy Networks is architecting the way business manages email for the next decade of communications. Our integrated, patent-pending technologies alleviate customers' frustration with disparate point products that create angst over the ability to gain control over a business' email. We offer superior manageability, security, and functionality, which lead to higher levels of assurance that an organization can manage the crucial asset that email has become.

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Privacy Networks Executive Team

Steven Berens | Todd Massey | Bill Thorson | Ted Niemann | John LoPorto

Steven Berens, President and CEO, brings more than 20 years of experience in strategy, marketing, sales and engineering to Privacy Networks. He has demonstrated the ability to deliver results for innovative companies looking to address customer requirements in new, emerging and mature markets. Berens’ solid industry relationships, strategic insight and creativity have led to successful market launches that focus on anticipating customer needs and bringing timely solutions.

During his career, Berens has held key management positions in high technology start-ups and Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Benchmark Storage Innovations and Quantum Corporation. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Todd Massey, Chairman and CTO, is a successful and experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record. He honed his software development skills in Silicon Valley, working for several leading-edge technology companies before starting up his own business.Todd has developed and brought to market many software products that have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Before Privacy Networks, he co-founded Surefire Verification, which he and his partners merged with Verisity Design. The combined company was named the “Best Performing IPO of 2001" and traded under the symbol VRST on the NASDAQ. Verisity was subsequently purchased by Cadence Design Systems.

Bill Thorson, Vice President of Engineering, is a guru in high performance, high availability and cluster computing. He has 24 years experience building and managing design and development teams that have successfully delivered hardware and software solutions to customers. Bill has enjoyed years of coaching girls fast-pitch softball and has helped his daughters and others to become serious players and to love the game.

Ted Niemann, CFO, has more than fifteen years of experience in finance and accounting. Most recently, Mr. Niemann was CFO of Chaparral Network Storage, a data storage company and prior to that was an accounting manager for publicly held Hach Company. Ted holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Chadron State College and a MBA from Regis University.

John LoPorto, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing brings more than 20 years of technology sales expertise spanning various direct and indirect go-to-market models. Most recently he was the CEO of Breakthrough Systems Inc., a provider of embedded software to the data storage, avionics, telecommunications and defense industries. Mr. LoPorto has previously held various senior executive sales and marketing positions at StorageTek, EMC and Sun Microsystems and was also an early stage key executive in a number of successful startup organizations including Veritas Software which was acquired by Symantec for over $13B and Logicraft, which was the first company to earn a position on the prestigious Inc 500 list for three consecutive years.

Mr. LoPorto holds an engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and completed graduate business studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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