CloudPassage Hires Deepa Prashant as Vice President of Finance & Administration

SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CloudPassage, a pioneering security SaaS company, today announced that Deepa Prashant has joined the company as Vice President of Finance and Administration. Prior to joining CloudPassage, Prashant was Acting CFO and VP of Finance at FusionOne.

"Deepa brings extensive finance experience and skill to the team," said Carson Sweet, co-founder and CEO of CloudPassage. "Her capabilities are going to be key to managing our growth in a healthy and stable way. We're delighted that she has chosen to join CloudPassage."

Prashant has more than 16 years of finance and accounting experience in both large enterprises and smaller Bay Area start-ups.  At both General Electric and McAfee, she managed the finances of multi-billion dollar businesses.  Prashant also played a pivotal role in selling two Silicon Valley start-ups, Pacific Broadband Communications and FusionOne, Inc., to large public corporations.  In addition, Prashant led the Sarbanes Oxley effort at Intellisync, has led companies through raising financing, and completed financial due diligence for multiple mergers and acquisitions.

"I am delighted to be joining CloudPassage," said Prashant.  "Security is becoming a core component of cloud solutions as companies move their mission critical data and operations to the cloud.  CloudPassage, with its strong technical and management leadership, is uniquely poised to serve this growing market."

Prashant holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and a Master of Science degree in Marketing from universities in India, and a Masters in Business Administration in Finance from the University of San Francisco.

About CloudPassage

CloudPassage is a security SaaS company offering the industry's first and only server security and compliance solutions purpose-built for elastic cloud environments.  The company addresses the technical challenges of securing highly dynamic cloud hosting environments where consistent physical location, network control and perimeter security are not guaranteed.  The company's Halo cloud server security products offer high-accuracy server security configuration and vulnerability management, centralized management of host-based firewalls and server account auditing for Linux servers  The innovative capabilities of the Halo platform operate across infrastructure models and seamlessly handle cloud server bursting, cloning, and migration. 

Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital.  Gartner, Inc. named CloudPassage one of four "Cool Vendors in Cloud Security Services, 2011."  For more information, please visit: http://www.CloudPassage.com

CloudPassage, CloudPassage Halo SVM Server Vulnerability Management and CloudPassage Halo Firewall are registered trademarks of CloudPassage. All other trademarks are registered to their respective companies. Copyright © CloudPassage 2011.

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