Portland, Ore. – June 06, 2007 – iovation, the device reputation authority for the Internet, and the leading provider of reputation-based online fraud management solutions, today announced it has added an inside sales director and a sales executive in Silicon Valley with extensive software sales experience.
Mei Wu joins iovation to build its inside sales team as the new director of sales. Wu brings more than 15 years of sales and marketing expertise to iovation, including ten-plus years selling software to enterprise and mid-market companies at organizations including Prosight, Rulespace and InterSolv.
Glenn Williamson will manage Western regional sales from Silicon Valley. Williamson has more than 20 years of sales experience and has consistently led sales at each position, most recently at AirTight Networks in Mountain View, Calif. Before joining AirTight Networks Williamson developed key verticals in retail, education, hospitality and financial services for leading security solutions providers including Whole Security, recently acquired by Symantec, Arcot Systems and RSA Security.
iovation has also expanded its sales resources in the United Kingdom. David Wiseman has signed with iovation to provide a local sales presence in the U.K. and Europe. Wiseman brings more than 25 years of business development and sales experience. Prior to working with iovation, Wiseman spent five years as the European sales manager for Ixaris Systems and consulted for several software companies in Canada and France, as well as IBM. Before Ixaris, Wiseman worked with Panvertu Limited, Millware Corporation and Proactive Systems in executive level leadership positions, developing marketing strategy, partnership programs and overall company vision.
"The addition of Mei and Glenn, in addition to our new relationship with Dave Wiseman, complements and extends our existing sales team, allowing us to respond to the market demand for reputation-based fraud solutions," said Jon Karl, vice president of business development at iovation.
iovation pioneered the use of reputation technology for online fraud management and multi-factor authentication in online gaming, financial services and e-commerce industries. iovation Reputation Services™, a Software as a Service (SaaS) family of solutions, links user accounts and transactions with devices and utilizes the reputation of those devices to guard against online fraud.
iovation leverages its historical repository containing PC reputations and suspicious associations to allow its customers to screen transactions using fact-based fraud evidence for any PC. iovation ReputationManager™ identifies all suspicious linkages between the PC and account transactions across its global repository. As a result, both new and existing account fraud can be stopped proactively.
iovation, headquartered in Portland, Oregon pioneered the use of device reputation for managing online fraud, abusive behavior and multi-factor authentication. Today, iovation manages the reputation of millions of Internet-enabled devices worldwide, allowing its customers to control online fraud and abuse while benefiting from sharing device reputation intelligence. For more information on iovation and the company's products, visit www.iovation.com.