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1. Aspera Expands Leadership Team to Address Accelerating Adoption of the Aspera High-Speed

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Aspera Expands Leadership Team to Address Accelerating Adoption of the Aspera High Speed

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Abstract: High-Speed Transfer Innovator Welcomes Mike Flathers and Richard Heitmann to Drive Vertical

Market Adoption, Growing Partnerships and Integrations Aspera, Inc. Francois Quereuil, 510-849-2386

[email protected] or Schwartz MSL for Aspera Dara Sklar or Angela Lestar, 415-512-0770

[email protected] Logo: http://www.asperasoft.com Aspera, Inc., creators of patented fasp(TM)

transport technology and software products that move the world's digital assets at maximum speed regardless

of data size, distance or network conditions, announced the appointment of industry veterans Richard Heitmann

as vice president of marketing, and Mike Flathers in a newly created role as chief technologist of the Aspera

Developer Platform.

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Full text: High-Speed Transfer Innovator Welcomes Mike Flathers and Richard Heitmann to Drive Vertical

Market Adoption, Growing Partnerships and Integrations

Aspera, Inc.

Francois Quereuil, 510-849-2386

[email protected]

or

Schwartz MSL for Aspera

Dara Sklar or Angela Lestar, 415-512-0770

[email protected]

Logo: http://www.asperasoft.com

Aspera, Inc., creators of patented fasp(TM) transport technology and software products that move the world's

digital assets at maximum speed regardless of data size, distance or network conditions, announced the

appointment of industry veterans Richard Heitmann as vice president of marketing, and Mike Flathers in a

newly created role as chief technologist of the Aspera Developer Platform. Heitmann and Flathers bring

extensive leadership experience to further drive growth and accelerate demand for Aspera's products and

technology.

Organizations in all industries are faced with the explosion of the volume of data they need to manage,

distribute, process and store, often at global distances. With its unique, patented high-speed transport

technology and complete portfolio of solutions to manage the distribution of large data sets, Aspera is uniquely

positioned to solve many of the challenges presented by the big data era. A proven standard for high-speed

data movement in media, entertainment and broadcast, where enormous file sets must be transported globally

every day, Aspera solutions are now seeing accelerated demand from the federal government, life sciences,

law firms and eDiscovery services, engineering companies and large global enterprises that need to deploy

enterprise-scale applications for the transport of big data over IP networks.

"Aspera has reached impressive milestones with more than 1,300 customers worldwide and 10,000 software

licenses sold, thanks to its visionary technology and people," said Heitmann. "I am thrilled to join the team at

this moment in the company's development and am looking forward to further establishing Aspera's vision to

bring high-speed data movement to all industries."Heitmann now leads all marketing efforts for Aspera, driving an expanding team of marketing communications,

product marketing and channel marketing professionals, to effectively communicate Aspera's unique value

proposition to rapidly growing industries and tailor the company's solution offerings to better serve these new

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Flathers joins Aspera as chief technologist of the Aspera Developer Platform, a new role dedicated to Aspera's

rapidly expanding community of third-party developers integrating Aspera fasp technology in applications and

systems that transfer big data -- network file systems and storage solutions, video and media distribution

platforms, mapping and imagery rendering, mobile content solutions and cloud based storage. Flathers joins

Aspera from Sorenson Media, where he was chief technology officer and directed the integration of Aspera

technology into Sorenson Media's pioneering cloud-based video encoding solution. Flathers brings an unusual

combination of deep and broad knowledge of software, media and networking.

"With a world class engineering team that combines creativity, focus and rock-solid technology, Aspera has

created a new standard for high-performance data transport," said Flathers. "I am excited to be serving Aspera's

developer community and driving the expansion of the Aspera SDKs and integration of the fasp technology into

service offerings and products that aim to revolutionize the way people work and collaborate around big data at

a global scale."

Aspera's innovative fasp, fasp-AIR, fasp-MC protocols provide superior file transfer capabilities to a variety of

solutions, including specialized digital asset and media management systems, high-performance storage, cloud

computing services, integrated media platforms, workflow and automation engines, high-speed delivery tools,

leading media production and transformation software, video management and publishing platforms and more.

Aspera fasp technology can be used in desktop, network-based, and web applications in place of FTP, HTTP or

custom TCP-based copy protocols.

About Richard Heitmann

Richard Heitmann has more than 15 years of experience in developing and marketing a broad set of enterprise

solutions. Most recently, he was the vice president of marketing at Atempo where he led marketing and product

strategy. Previously he was vice president of product management and marketing at EVault, an early pioneer in

the area of online backup as a service, which was acquired by Seagate. He has held senior leadership positions

at Phoenix Technologies, WatchGuard Technologies and Onyx Software. Heitmann received a BA in

mathematics and economics from University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from the University of

Washington.

About Mike Flathers

Mike Flathers has more than 20 years of software development experience. Throughout his career, Flathers

focused on enabling third-party technology integrations by creating innovative software solutions and APIs. For

the past 10 years, Flathers worked at Sorenson Media where he led the development of Sorenson VCast, one

of the industry's first online video delivery platforms and Sorenson VRS, a leading video relay service

empowering communication for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. Most recently, he was the chief

technology officer for Sorenson Media where he directed research and engineering efforts and managedtechnology decisions and architecture. Prior to that, he spent 14 years at Novell after the company acquired

Excelan where he was a lead developer for the LANWorkplace product, the first suite of TCP/IP utilities for DOS

and Windows.

About Aspera

Aspera is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world's digital assets at maximum

speed regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. Based on its patented fasp(TM) protocol,

Aspera software fully utilizes existing infrastructures to deliver the fastest, most predictable file-transfer

experience. Aspera's core technology delivers unprecedented control over bandwidth, complete security and

uncompromising reliability. More than 1,300 organizations across a variety of industries on six continents rely on

Aspera software for the business-critical transport of their digital assets. Please visit http://www.asperasoft.com

and follow us on Twitter @asperasoft for more information.

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Subject: Product introduction; Software industry; Colleges & universities; Cloud computing; Marketing; Life

sciences;

Publication title: Business Wire

Publication year: 2011

Publication date: Nov 29, 2011

Dateline: EMERYVILLE, Calif.

Publisher: Business Wire

Place of publication: New York

Country of publication: United States

Publication subject: Business And Economics

Source type: Wire Feeds

Language of publication: English

Document type: News

ProQuest document ID: 906336762

Document URL: http://search.proquest.com/docview/906336762?accountid=11528

Copyright: Copyright Business Wire 2011

Last updated: 2011-11-29

Database: ProQuest Business Collection

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