Active Reasoning Appoints Andrew Lochart VP Marketing -- Senior Marketing Executive Brings Deep Experience in Enterprise Security and Compliance

Active Reasoning, the leading provider of IT Governance Automation software, today announced the appointment of Andrew Lochart to the position of vice president of marketing.

San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) January 17, 2007 -- Active Reasoning, the leading provider of IT Governance Automation software, today announced the appointment of Andrew Lochart to the position of vice president of marketing. In this role, Lochart will be responsible for promoting the company's products and services to a global audience through product marketing, corporate marketing, and press and analyst relations.

Lochart brings more than 15 years of high-tech marketing management experience to Active Reasoning. "We're all extremely pleased to have Andrew joining the Active Reasoning team," said W.R. "Butch" Winters, Active Reasoning's chairman and CEO. "His technical product background, and his experience in building awareness for emerging companies, will help accelerate our company's growth."

Before Active Reasoning, Lochart held senior marketing management roles at HP, Mirapoint and, most recently, Postini. At Postini, Andrew was responsible for all aspects of the company's global marketing, defining and then dominating the managed services market for email security, growing the company from 2,000 customers to 35,000. As director of product management at Mirapoint, he launched the world's first email security appliance.

About Active Reasoning
With products installed in 59 countries on six continents, Active Reasoning is a leading provider of IT Governance Automation solutions. The Active Reasoning IT Controls Automation Software Platform operationalizes standards such as ITIL & COBIT, detecting, validating, and reporting unauthorized changes and out-of-policy actions on IT infrastructure to help Fortune 500 clients meet SLAs, mitigate operational risk and reduce expenses. Active Reasoning delivers powerful change auditing, change reconciliation, configuration auditing and configuration reconciliation capabilities to leading companies around the globe. Active Reasoning is backed by top-tier venture partners including ComVentures, ArrowPath Venture Partners, ONSET Ventures and InterWest Partners. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.activereasoning.com and see a brief demonstration of Active Reasoning's IT Policy Enforcement solutions at http://www.activereasoning.com/solutions/demo.html.

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