President and CEO of Mzinga Joins Virtual Computer Team in Transforming the World of PC Lifecycle Management
Westford, Mass. -- November 17, 2008 - PDF 
— Virtual Computer Inc., the company that is redefining PC Lifecycle Management, today announced that Rick Faulk has been named to the company’s Board of Directors. A veteran executive of market-leading, high-tech companies, Faulk is president and CEO of Mzinga, the leader in enterprise social software for the workplace, marketplace, and extended enterprise. At Virtual Computer, Faulk joins a visionary Board of Directors including: Dan McCall, president and CEO of Virtual Computer; Alex Vasilevsky, chief technology officer of Virtual Computer; Jon Karlen, general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners; and Peter Bell, general partner at Highland Capital Partners.
“Rick’s ability to recognize emerging technologies and transform young companies into market leaders, makes him an exciting addition to our Board of Directors,” said McCall. “Rick has led the go-to-market strategies at ground-breaking companies such as WebEx, Intranets.com, and PictureTel, and has a history of success in bringing disruptive technologies to mainstream markets.”
NxTop™ is Virtual Computer’s next-generation PC management platform, which makes it as easy to manage thousands of PCs, as it is to manage one. NxTop’s patent-pending technology isolates the PC’s critical components -- hardware, operating system, applications, and user data -- allowing each to be managed independently in a highly-scalable fashion without a persistent network connection. The technology effectively lowers the cost of PC deployment and maintenance and improves PC reliability and security, without compromising the end-user computing experience.
“Virtual Computer has rapidly emerged as a leader and key innovator in PC management and they will put significant pressure on larger, more established companies to ‘catch up.’ I look forward to helping accelerate their efforts to penetrate this emerging technology segment,” noted Faulk.
About Rick Faulk
A 21-year veteran of the high-tech industry, Faulk is a recognized industry thought-leader who, as president and CEO of Mzinga, is pioneering business social media and learning solutions. Prior to Mzinga, Faulk was chief marketing officer of WebEx Communications and president of WebEx Small Business where he led the company’s worldwide go-to-market and customer acquisition strategies. One of the dotcom era’s success stories, Faulk served as president and CEO of Intranets.com, which was acquired by WebEx in 2005. Under his leadership, Intranets.com was twice named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing technology companies. Faulk’s executive-level expertise and experience also includes tenures at PictureTel, where he was vice president of Corporate Marketing, and Shiva Corporation where he served as vice president of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. Earlier in his career, Faulk was vice president of Corporate Marketing at Lotus Development Corporation. As founder of First Software, he grew the company to more than $175 million in revenue in less than 4 years. In 1985, First Software ranked second in Inc. Magazine's list of fastest-growing companies. http://www.mzinga.com/en/Community/Blogs/Rick-Faulk/
About Virtual Computer, Inc.
Virtual Computer was founded in 2007 to improve the manageability, reliability, and security of personal computers by isolating the four main elements of a personal computer: hardware, operating system, applications and user data. NxTop, the company’s flagship PC management product, helps IT teams reduce the costs of deploying and supporting mobile and remote workers while protecting their PCs against data loss and theft and providing a more enjoyable computing experience. Privately held, Virtual Computer is headquartered in Westford, MA and is accessible at http://www.virtualcomputer.com.
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