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IntraLinks Names Gyenes, Hale, and McBride to
Board of Directors
New York
June 20, 2008
IntraLinks, Inc., the leading provider of online workspaces for
secure document exchange, announced the appointment of three
additional
directors –Peter Gyenes, Tom Hale and Robert McBride – to
the company's board, effective immediately.
Gyenes, 62, has more than
40 years of technology and software industry experience. Gyenes
was chairman and chief executive officer
of Ascential Software Corporation, and of its predecessor companies
VMark Software, Ardent Software and Informix through its acquisition
by IBM in 2005. Previously, Gyenes served as president and CEO
of Racal Interlan, Inc. and has held executive positions at Data
General Corporation, Encore Computer Corporation and Prime Computer,
Inc. A Columbia University alumnus, Gyenes is a resident of Brookline,
MA and currently serves on several technology company boards
including those of Lawson Software, BladeLogic, Inc. and Netezza
Corporation.
He is non-executive chairman of Sophos plc, an enterprise security
software company, and is also a member of the board of trustees
of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council.
Hale, 39, is
a former senior vice president of Adobe’s Knowledge
Worker Solutions business unit where he drove the strategy and
execution for core Adobe franchises like Adobe® Acrobat® and
Acrobat Connect Professional®, a flash-based web conferencing
solution. Prior to his tenure at Adobe, Hale was senior vice president
of the communications, publishing and training division at Macromedia
where he led the company into the web collaboration market with
its first Software as a Service offering. A graduate of Harvard
University, Hale currently resides in San Francisco, CA.
McBride,
64, is a former chief financial officer of Iona Technologies. Previously,
McBride was vice president and chief financial officer
of Ascential Software, and spent 17 years at Data General Corporation
(now part of EMC Corporation) during which he served as vice president,
chief administrative officer, corporate controller and corporate
treasurer, among other senior financial management positions. McBride
has also held a variety of senior management positions in the information
systems and finance areas of Burroughs Corporation. He currently
serves on the board of directors for Arbor Networks, a U.S.-based
network security products, services and solutions company. A former
infantry officer in the U.S. Army and a resident of Charleston,
SC, McBride received his M.B.A. from Washington University and
a bachelor’s degree from Ohio Wesleyan University. Mr. McBride
will serve as Chairman of the Audit Committee of the IntraLinks
board.
“The deep industry experience and executive leadership that
Peter, Tom and Bob bring to our board will prove invaluable as
IntraLinks continues to grow, expanding its reach both internationally
and deeper into the corporate marketplace,” said Patrick
Wack, chairman of the board of IntraLinks.
About IntraLinks
IntraLinks® On-Demand Workspaces™ connect business communities
and accelerate the intelligent flow of information and documents
among participants. Through IntraLinks' secure, neutral, online
environments, companies are better able to compete globally by
accelerating essential business processes, simplifying communication
and fostering rapid workflow.
IntraLinks is easily accessible anywhere,
anytime using a web browser. Since 1997, more than 700,000 participants
representing
over 80,000 organizations worldwide have used IntraLinks On-Demand
Workspaces™ to communicate and collaborate on thousands of
projects and transactions. IntraLinks has been adopted widely in
the financial services and pharmaceutical industries, where its
clients include AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bank of America,
Deutsche Bank, FDIC, TD Securities, Thomas Weisel Partners and
WestLB, among hundreds of others. Founded in 1996, IntraLinks is
headquartered in New York with offices around the world. For more
information, visit www.intralinks.com.
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