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DataMirror Appoints Rean PretoriusSenior Vice President of Resiliency Sales
Pretorius Brings More Than 20 Years of Sales Experience to Senior Management Team
MARKHAM, CANADA – (October 28th, 2003)– DataMirror (Nasdaq: DMCX; TSX: DMC), a leading provider of live data integration and live data protection solutions, has announced the appointment of Rean Pretorius as Senior Vice President of Resiliency Sales. In this position, Pretorius will be responsible for overseeing sales of DataMirror’s Resiliency and High Availability products and will focus in the immediate future on the sale of iReflect, the company’s Oracle availability product.
In the past, Rean Pretorius was Executive Vice President Worldwide Sales for Vision Solutions. Mr. Pretorius has significant experience in Information Technology with over 13 years experience in senior sales management. He helped Vision Solutions to grow its customer base to over 1,800 customers in over 70 countries, with over 10,000 installations.
Previous to his tenure at Vision Solutions, Pretorius co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Silverlake Technology Solutions, a successful IBM Business Partner specializing in partitioning and cluster management. Under his leadership, Silverlake signed a worldwide agreement with IBM Business Recovery Services. Rean received a BS degree in Economics and Finance from Stellenbosch University and holds a M.B.A. from the University of South Africa. He currently serves on the Discovery Science Centre Board.
“Rean brings outstanding sales, channel development and management depth to the DataMirror team,” says Nigel Stokes, CEO, DataMirror. “The expansion of sales and channels for our resiliency products is critical to our long-term success. I believe that Rean’s proven track record of building and growing businesses will have an immediate impact on our operations and help drive revenues to record levels.”
About DataMirror
DataMirror (Nasdaq: DMCX; TSX: DMC), a leading provider of enterprise application integration and resiliency solutions, gives companies the power to manage, monitor and protect their corporate data in real-time. DataMirror’s comprehensive family of LiveBusiness™ solutions enables customers to easily and cost-effectively capture, transform and flow data throughout the enterprise. DataMirror unlocks the experience of now™ by providing the instant data access, integration and availability companies require today across all computers in their business.
Over 1,750 companies have gone live with DataMirror software including Debenhams, GMAC Commercial Mortgage, the London Stock Exchange, OshKosh B’Gosh, Priority Health, Tiffany & Co., and Union Pacific Railroad. DataMirror is headquartered in Markham, Canada, and has offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.datamirror.com
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