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AtHoc Appoints Olivia Dillan Vice President of Engineering to Support Continued Growth in New Markets
Executive to Leverage 24 Years' Enterprise Software Experience to Deliver Next-Generation Network-Centric Emergency Notification Solutions
| Source: AtHoc
BURLINGAME, CA--(Marketwire - July 14, 2008) - AtHoc, Inc., the pioneer and leader in
network-centric emergency notification systems, today announced that
industry veteran Olivia Dillan has joined the company as its vice president
of engineering. She will oversee the product design, development and
delivery of AtHoc's next generation of network-centric emergency
notification solutions as the company expands into new markets.
Ms. Dillan brings 24 years of software product innovation to AtHoc from
start-ups and multi-billion dollar corporations. Prior to joining AtHoc,
she served as group vice president of technology and services for security
software company PGP Corp. where she led worldwide engineering, technical
support, customer service and information systems and delivered
award-winning products with more than 100 releases across multiple
platforms. Ms. Dillan remains an active member of PGP's technical advisory
board.
Prior to PGP, Ms. Dillan had numerous senior executive positions,
including: vice president of engineering at ServGate, co-founder and COO at
Model N, vice president of engineering at the NetDynamics business unit of
Sun Microsystems, vice president of the new media tools and applications
division at Oracle, and vice president of core product development at
ASK/Ingres (now Computer Associates).
"Olivia joins us at an important time in our company's history as we expand
into new markets," said Guy Miasnik, president and CEO of AtHoc. "Her
extensive enterprise and security experience gained in building large
engineering organizations will help us as we scale to develop our next
generation of network-centric emergency alerting products."
Ms. Dillan will work closely with Aviv Siegel, CTO and co-founder, whose
focus will be on longer-term initiatives including strategic direction,
architectural design and industry convergence.
"As threats evolve, so too must the technology helping protect people and
property," Dillan said. "AtHoc's development team created the emergency
notification systems which have helped protect roughly a million people to
date. I look forward to leading this dedicated team as we continue to
innovate the emergency alerting market."
Ms. Dillan graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in
computer science from Hunter College in New York.
About AtHoc
AtHoc is a recognized leader in providing enterprise-class, network-centric
emergency notification systems to military, government and commercial
organizations for physical security, force protection and personnel
accountability. Millions of end users worldwide, in organizations such as
the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Hawaii State Civil Defense, U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office, Boeing, PricewaterhouseCoopers and eBay, rely
on AtHoc's unified management systems for their emergency alerting and
critical communication needs. AtHoc has partnered with market leaders
including Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Cisco, Siemens, Avaya, Unisys and
others to bring these notification solutions to the public and commercial
markets.
For more information on AtHoc, please visit http://www.athoc.com.