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Charles Taite - CEO/CTO Co-Founder
Charles Taite steers GWAVA's technology vision. He is the former CTO for Tobit Software of North America where he was instrumental in helping Tobit establish its technology roadmap for entering the North American market. He guides GWAVA's research and product development efforts, while overseeing GWAVA's technical services and support division. His expertise comes from a 15-year career in the networking industry, specializing in secure electronic messaging. He is a Certified Novell Engineer (CNE).

Marc St-Arnaud CFO/COO Co-Founder
Prior to founding GWAVA, Marc St-Arnaud was CEO/CFO of Tobit Software of North America Inc. a fax and unified messaging software company. Marc brings many years of business experience and excels in strategic planning and organizational policies. Marc experience comes from the software and food industry, working with retailers, marketers, wholesalers and consumers in domestic and international affairs. He has a history of managing growth and profitable companies. Marc studied Commerce and Economics at Université du Québec à Montréal, Computer science at Concordia, and Management at McGill.

Perry F. Owen - VP Sales, North America
Perry joined GWAVA in February 2002 as GWAVA's Vice President of Sales for General Datacom which was sold to Miranda for $26 million. His management experience spans over 20 years in the IT and telecommunication industry. As a member of the executive team, Perry manages the sales growth for North and South America. He has a BA from Concordia University in Montreal.

Richard Bliss - VP Marketing, Worldwide
Richard Bliss has been actively involved in the messaging industry since 1989. Prior to joining GWAVA, Richard was the Director of Marketing for Novell GroupWise, a position in which he was responsible for communicating Novell's vision for its GroupWise and collaboration products. He has been the VP of Marketing for companies such as Allegro (mail.com)-a leading U.S. provider of corporate e-mail management solutions-and Sigaba, an email security company. He has written numerous articles and spoken at a host of seminars, conferences and conventions on messaging, outsourcing and e-mail security. He has also appeared in numerous magazine interviews as well as appearing on CNN.

Herbert Lefering - VP Sales, Europe
Herbert Lefering oversees GWAVA Sales and Channel Sales for Europe. Before joining GWAVA, Herbert was Distribution Sales manager for Tobit Software in Europe where he worked for 10 years in increasing positions of responsibility. He has been with GWAVA since 2002 and has grown the GWAVA channel in Europe to a significant portion of worldwide sales.

Michael Bell - VP Rx, Sr. Engineer
Michael Bell in addition to being VP of Research and Development, also fulfills the role of Senior Engineer at GWAVA. Michael developed, Guinevere,the first Anti-Virus/Anti-Spam solution for GroupWise and has been the Co-Developer for GWAVA. Michael is a long time Netware Administrator and has been a member of the Novell Sysop Team since May, 1998. He also maintains the Win32 HOWTO for SpamAssassin(http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa.html).

Josh Gibbs - Chief Software Architect
Josh Gibbs leads the design and development of the core technology of GWAVA products. Josh's background in network engineering and software development started in 1989. Josh began writing applications for the NetWare platform in 1996 with the award winning i-MailDS. Josh holds numerous IT industry certificates including Enterprise Certified Novell Engineer (ECNE), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Microsoft Certified Developer (MCD).

Contact Information
GWAVA World Headquarters
100 Alexis Nihon Rd., Suite 500
Montreal, QC, H4M 2P1, Canada
Tel: +1 514.639.4850
Fax: +1 646.304.6250
questions@gwava.com
Sales Contacts
North America (US & Canada)
Northeast Region Doug Stein
D.C. & Southeast Region Lori Fair
Midwest Region Mike Silverman
Heartland Region Davin Cooke
West Coast Tom Poitras
Canada Melissa Mitchell
RETAIN for BlackBerry Enterprise Server Mitch Lauer
International Contacts
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Support Information
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Tel: +1 801.437.5678
9:00 AM through 5:00 PM Eastern Time, Monday to Friday
Extended Hours support available only through Annual Support Agreements.
support@gwava.com