Tailwind Announces the Appointment of Bob Vander Woude as VP of Market Development

Foster City, Calif., July 15, 2003 -- Tailwind today announced the appointment of Bob Vander Woude as Vice President of Market Development. Vander Woude brings over 20 years of sales development and management, business development, and high technology investment/advisory experience to his role developing new markets for Tailwind, Inc.

Foster City, Calif. (PRWEB) July 15, 2003 -- Tailwind today announced the appointment of Bob Vander Woude as Vice President of Market Development. Vander Woude brings over 20 years of sales development and management, business development, and high technology investment/advisory experience to his role developing new markets for Tailwind, Inc.

"We are fortunate to have an executive of Bob Vander Woude's caliber heading Market Development for TailWind," stated David Koehn, Chairman of the Board and President of TailWind. He is a very experienced leader and manager, and has an outstanding track record with many enterprise software, infrastructure and high technology companies. I am confident that Bob will take the company to new heights. His ability to turn a relationship into a multi-million dollar alliance is unheard of."

Vander Woude co-founded and served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing for DataTools, Inc. He established and grew telesales, reseller, OEM and international distribution channels. He developed key strategic relationships with AT&T, IBM, EMC, Legato, Oracle and Sybase. As a result, DataTools experienced rapid sales and earnings growth with ultimate acquisition by BMC Software. As Director of Worldwide UNIX Sales for Legato Systems, Inc., he established and directed VAR and international distributor programs and channels for the initial product launch of Legato Networker. Robert developed and trained a worldwide indirect distribution channel of over 100 locations. Vander Woude received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Texas Christian University.

About TailWind
Tailwind Powers the Mobile Workforce (tm)

TailWind Inc. provides a managed delivery software solution that improves the effectiveness of the mobile workforce, while reducing the cost and complexity of digital data delivery. TailWinds product, FieldSpace (tm) is available as a laptop solution and is easy to use, reliable, and provides timely business-critical information to mobile workers. At its heart is a browser-based managed delivery software solution for relaying, storing and tracking digital documentation for mobile workers who are occasionally connected to the Internet or when corporate server-based networks are unreliable or slow. TailWinds software product, PackageMill(tm), enables organizations to take many different types of digital content and bundle them for easy delivery to the mobile workforce. It does this by taking existing content files and reformats them to fit SCORM standards, thereby creating lists of all files comprising content to be localized on CPUs running FieldSpace.

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Barry Fishman
barry@tailwindinc.com
650.430.6200

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