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PGP Corporation Names Masayuki Kitahara New Managing Director of PGP Japan K.K. Tokyo and Menlo Park, CA/ 26 June 2008 – PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, today announced that Masayuki Kitahara has joined the company as the new managing director of PGP Japan K.K. Kitahara, age 47, will be responsible for managing all of PGP Japan K.K. business development, marketing and partnership activities. Kitahara, who has over 25 years of experience in the security industry, joins PGP Japan K.K. from SignaCert, Inc., where, as a consultant and the country manager for one year, he directed the marketing efforts for the U.S.-based IT controls solutions provider and prepared the company to begin its SignaCert K.K. operations. Before SignaCert, Kitahara was President of Tripwire Japan K.K. for 5 years where he led sales, established strategic alliances with some of the world’s leading technology companies and expanded its distribution network. Additionally, Kitahara was with Symantec Japan K.K. for 6 years in various sales, business development and service and support positions. Utilizing Kitahara’s unique perspective and experience in the Japanese security industry, PGP Japan K.K. will increase its efforts based on business strategies that are conceived and driven in the Japanese market. Kitahara’s initial efforts will be focused on:
About PGP Japan K.K. PGP Japan K.K. established in 2005 as a wholly owned subsidiary of PGP Corporation, sells PGP encryption products and supports technology partners in the Japanese domestic market. PGP Japan K.K. has a central and important role to cover the Asia-Pacific region. Contact at http://www.pgp.com/jp/ About PGP Corporation PGP Corporation is a global leader in email and data encryption software for enterprise data protection. Based on a unified key management and policy infrastructure, the PGP® Encryption Platform offers the broadest set of integrated applications for enterprise data security. PGP® platform-enabled applications allow organizations to meet current needs and expand as security requirements evolve for email, laptops, desktops, instant messaging, smartphones, network storage, file transfers, automated processes, and backups. PGP® solutions are used by more than 80,000 enterprises, businesses, and governments worldwide, including 95 percent of the Fortune® 100, 75 percent of the Fortune® Global 100, 87 percent of the German DAX Index, and 51 percent of the U.K. FTSE 100 Index. As a result, PGP Corporation has earned a global reputation for innovative, standards-based, and trusted solutions. PGP solutions help protect confidential information, secure customer data, achieve regulatory and audit compliance, and safeguard companies’ brands and reputations. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com. Media & analyst contact for PGP Japan K.K. and PGP Corporation: Japan: Koichi Nishida, Kyosuke Wakairo Powered Communications Inc. +81 3 5211 7940 pgp@powered-communications.com North America: Tom Rice Merritt Group +1 703 856 2218 rice@merrittgrp.com U.K.: Jacqui Depares / Richard Scarlett Johnson King +44 (0) 20 7401 7968 pgpteam@johnsonking.co.uk Germany: Ingrid Daschner Johnson King +49 (0) 89 8940 8511 ingridd@johnsonking.de Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including statements regarding the availability, plans, delivery, goals, development, expected features, expected benefits and competitive position of PGP products implementing or leveraging the PGP technologies. All references made to product feature enhancements, improvements in Platform support or additional functionality are subject to change at PGP Corporation’s sole discretion. All future descriptions of PGP technology and products are subject to availability only if PGP Corporation decides to build them and when PGP Corporation decides to make them commercially available. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that PGP Corporation faces that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with any unforeseen technical difficulties or software errors related to the final development and launch of any of PGP Corporation’s products; any technological, regulatory, or standards changes in the security, encryption and authentications market which could make PGP Corporation’s products less competitive or require feature changes in these products; any slowdown in the adoption by businesses of encryption suites, secure email, Internet technologies or related standard. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and PGP Corporation does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in such statements. PGP and the PGP logo are registered trademarks of PGP Corporation. Product and brand names used in the document may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Any such trademarks or registered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners. ### |
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