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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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