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posted on 11 March 2008 02:41

File area network and virtualisation company Attune Systems has appointed Jill Kyte as its VP for marketing and business development. Bill Lozoff has also joined as the senior director for channel development.

Jill Kyte has 25-years marketing and busines development and sales experience summarised thus: prior to joining Attune Systems, Kyte was vice president of corporate and field marketing at ArcSight, an enterprise security and compliance solutions provider. Previously, she spent four years at Vividence, a market research firm, as the company’s vice president of marketing and business development. Before Vividence, Kyte was vice president of strategic alliances at Portal Software, the leader in enterprise-level customer billing solutions for Internet businesses. Earlier in her career, she spent eight years at Adobe Systems; her last role at Adobe was director of OEM sales, with responsibility for more than US$65 million in revenue. She also held management positions with Sun Microsystems, GRiD Systems, and Hewlett Packard.

She will report directly to Alan Kessler, chief executive officer

Bill Lozoff is another 25-year vet with successful marketing and sales experience in the telecommunications, data networking and storage networking markets with companies such as NeoScale Systems, Nishan Systems, UB Networks and 3COM. Most recently at NeoScale, Lozoff successfully built a channel and OEM infrastructure in the Asia Pacific and Japan region, which grew to account for more than 25 percent of company’s revenue. Prior to NeoScale, Lozoff was director of solutions and channel alliances at Nishan Systems, later acquired by McDATA (Brocade).

He reports to Carolyn Hyde, vice president of sales at Attune Systems.

[Majid Soltani. staff writer.]