BeyondTrust Corporation, the leading provider of Enterprise Least
Privilege Management solutions, today announced European expansion
plans and a new addition to its executive team. Leading BeyondTrust's
European operations, Paul van Hugte is an experienced leader with a
proven track record of successfully expanding European markets for
security software companies.
"BeyondTrust continues to broaden its leadership team to meet the
growing needs of its global enterprise customers and partners," said
John Moyer, CEO of BeyondTrust. "Our European expansion is the result
of customer and systems integration partner demand and is a sign of
the growing adoption of the security best practice of Least Privilege,
made possible by BeyondTrust Privilege Manager, the first product to
enable Least Privilege in Windows environments. We are thrilled to
have someone with van Hugte's talent and experience to help lead this
phase of our operations."
Van Hugte joins BeyondTrust as vice president of EMEA, with 19
years in the IT business and 15 years of management experience leading
start-ups, groups, divisions and geographical regions for companies
such as A-Line technologies, World Online, BT Syntegra and Network
Associates. Most relevant, is van Hugte's recent position of vice
president of McAfee Central Europe. "I am excited to be part of this
innovative company and to lead its European efforts," said van Hugte.
Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Van Hugte will oversee
BeyondTrust's sales to meet the overwhelming demand for BeyondTrust
Privilege Manager in Europe, where recent wins include financial and
petrochemical concerns in excess of 20,000 seats. Van Hugte is
developing the BeyondTrust business with direct sales and a network of
system integrators, value added resellers and distributors.
About BeyondTrust
BeyondTrust Privilege Manager was the first product to allow
administrators to assign permissions to applications and tasks,
enabling the security best practice of Least Privilege in Windows
environments. BeyondTrust Privilege Manager has won many prestigious
awards, including "Excellence in Management of Least Privilege -
Customer Trust 2006" (Info Security Products Guide), "Best of TechEd
2006 - Security Finalist" (Windows IT Pro/SQL Server Magazine) and
"Best Product of 2005 - Policy Management" (MSD2D People's Choice
Security Award). For more information, visit www.beyondtrust.com.
