ALACRITECH NAMES PATRICK RILEY DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
SAN JOSE, Calif. – February 25, 2008 – Alacritech Inc., the leader of innovative data-delivery technology, today announced that Patrick Riley has joined Alacritech as its Director of Product Management, effective immediately.
Riley and his team will play a key role in shaping and caring for Alacritech’s product roadmap and managing products through their respective lifecycles. With years of proven product leadership, Riley brings extensive networking technical knowledge and solid business planning skills to the company. Riley served in senior product management positions with Sunrise Telecom where he led many of the company’s initiatives, including 10GbE support. Riley holds two technical degrees including an undergraduate degree in Physics from UC San Diego and a Masters in Applied Science from UC Davis.
“Alacritech was seeking an experienced product executive with an extensive technical and marketing background in driving innovative highly differentiated products to market with engineering. Riley brings these skills and more,” said Doug Rainbolt, vice president of Marketing for Alacritech. “Our customers and partners are all going to benefit as we draw upon that expertise.”
“A trained physicist, Riley can talk credibly to an ASIC designer about product requirements and also communicate high-level business benefits to a CIO – this is a rare skill set to find and reflects the uniqueness and value Riley brings to Alacritech,” Rainbolt added.
About Alacritech
Alacritech is the leading provider of innovative technology that increases the speed, power and performance of servers, enabling a truly scalable network. Organizations that use Alacritech's proven technology are better able to reduce the burden of network processing on their server, scale to support more clients and applications, achieve higher performance and realize increased network utilization. For more information visit the Alacritech web site at www.alacritech.com or contact the company at info@alacritech.com.
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