Persystent Software Expands Management Team with New VP of Product Development

Tampa, FL – October 12, 2009,– Persystent Software, developers of the fastest PC recovery products on the market - restoring corrupted, changed, or missing OS and application files in 30 seconds or less - today announced the expansion of its management team with the appointment of Katherine Wattwood as Vice President of Product Development. A 25-year industry veteran, Wattwood brings to Persystent extensive technical leadership experience, having helped drive significant product innovation and growth for some of the software industry’s largest companies. She also successfully led development teams through corporate mergers and acquisitions.

In her new role, Wattwood will manage the product engineering team to further enhance the company’s core, patented high speed repair technology found throughout the Persystent product portfolio. She will also be instrumental in helping the company deliver the industry’s first rapid server recovery product, currently in development. Wattwood will report directly to the CEO.

“Katherine is passionate about driving innovation,” said Joe Loughry, president and CEO, Persystent Software. “She understands how to leverage a company’s intellectual property as a core asset, and how to build value through each stage of the product lifecycle. Her roll-up-the-sleeves approach will help Persystent continue to improve its trusted product portfolio and drive high quality, customer-centric products for the broader growth markets we have targeted.”

Before joining Persystent, Wattwood served in technical and product management positions at several major technology companies, including Symantec, VERITAS, and Siemens. While at Symantec, Wattwood served as the technical liaison to Microsoft, coordinating joint development initiatives. Most recently, she helped establish the product roadmap for emerging wireless industry player Sunsight Instruments.

Wattwood is a proven senior technical leader with experience developing or enhancing products that translate directly to sales growth, having managed the delivery of ten product releases that helped fuel her company’s revenue growth nearly ten-fold, from $50 million to $400 million. She also has direct experience leading teams through the potentially disruptive transitions resulting from employer mergers and acquisitions, ultimately maintaining team focus that resulted in a 28 percent increase in license sales.

“The engineers at Persystent Software have already developed one of the most compelling innovative product lines I’ve seen in my career,” stated Wattwood. “By staying focused on meeting our customers’ essential needs, we can continue to extend the company’s technology leadership and apply it in new and valuable ways to stimulate growth.”

The Persystent Software scalable product line includes Persystent Solo, Persystent Edge, Persystent Suite, and Persystent Enterprise, offering rapid PC recovery, imaging, and compliance solutions for enterprises with 2 to 200,000 PCs.

About Persystent Software
Unlike any other disaster recovery provider, Persystent Software offers the only solution that restores degraded systems to a working state whether the PC is on or off the network, and even if the O/S will not start. Nothing, including viruses, malware or other unauthorized programs can stop a Persystent PC from returning to its desired configuration. By simply rebooting the system, either automatically or on demand, Persystent Software eliminates the need for manual PC re-imaging while preserving user data and settings during the restoration process.

In addition to keeping end users productive, Persystent Software enables IT staffs to control PC damage, reduce help desk calls, enforce compliance, and improve the success rate of software patches and updates. Additional benefits include energy savings through reduced PC power consumption via an automatic shutdown feature. For more information, please visit Persystent’s ROI calculator.

Founded in 2002, Persystent Software has been instrumental to organizations in government, healthcare and education sectors with limited resources to support a high ratio of employees to IT staff and 24/7 business uptime . Persystent® Software solutions ensure that end-user desktop and laptop computers are always available and fully functional—whether in the office or on the road. Persystent Software has developed the only automated PC recovery product on the market with unsurpassed speed, restoring application and operating system (O/S) files that are corrupted, changed, or missing, in less than 30 seconds.

For more information on Persystent Software and its solutions, visit: www.persystent.com.

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