Reactivity Continues Building Management Team

Reactivity Continues Building Management Team David Ashton Heads Business Development; Glen Kosaka Named VP, Product Management BELMONT, Calif., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Reactivity, Inc. the leader in secure XML Web services deployment systems, today announced two new additions to its management team, appointing David Ashton to lead Reactivity's business development, responsible for all strategic alliances, and naming Glen "Kaz" Kosaka to the position of vice president of product management. In this newly created position, Kosaka will be responsible for the company's overall product strategy, including establishing the product roadmap and technology direction, as well as managing the product lifecycle. "Reactivity has reached a critical juncture in its development, and we are meeting the challenges of our rapid growth in part by ensuring we have an effective management team to lead us through this transition and beyond," said Glenn Osaka, CEO and president of Reactivity. "David and Kaz both bring the wealth of experience, broad perspectives and strong business underpinnings required to meet the demands of their new positions. I welcome them to Reactivity and look forward to their contributions to the company's continuing success." David Ashton Prior to joining Reactivity, David was vice president of business development at Cyclone Commerce, where he was responsible for establishing alliances with key strategic partners such as IBM and HP, as well as with key VARs. He also worked for Cyclone in London as director of international operations where he oversaw sales, marketing and business development for the company's non-US business. Prior to Cyclone, David worked with Goldman Sachs and Andersen Consulting (Accenture). He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Brigham Young University. "With XML and Web services security playing an increasingly central role in a broad range of enterprise applications, Reactivity is redoubling its commitment to partnering with industry-leading technology companies to integrate our complementary solutions," said David Ashton. "Interoperability is the key, and what customers demand, and I look forward to helping advance Reactivity's leadership in the market." Glen "Kaz" Kosaka Glen Kosaka has more than 17 years of product management, marketing and business development experience with leading technology firms such as Extreme Networks, Resonate, HP, Sun, Intel and Cisco. Most recently, he was senior director at Extreme Networks and negotiated and launched a multi-million dollar strategic partnership with Avaya in the IP Telephony space. Prior to Extreme, he led product management, product marketing, and technical marketing groups at Resonate, driving growth from $1 million to more than $20 million in revenue with a successful IPO for the software-based load balancing and application performance management company. Kaz began his career in product management at Intel. He holds a BS in Information and Computer Science from UC Irvine and an MBA from the University of Michigan. "Reactivity is a young and vibrant company that has quickly established its leadership position, and this is an exciting time to be joining its management team," said Kaz Kosaka. "With XML and Web services quickly becoming the integration technologies of choice for businesses of all sizes, I think there will be plenty of opportunities for the kinds of creative security and deployment solutions Reactivity is known for." About Reactivity Reactivity provides the leading deployment infrastructure used by enterprises to realize the promise of Web services. Reactivity's family of products enables businesses to secure, provision and operate XML and Web services more efficiently and effectively, accelerating their time-to-market and gaining competitive advantage. Reactivity has unique experience with the largest and most demanding Global 2000 enterprises in financial services, publishing, travel and other industries. Reactivity is located in Belmont, California, and can be reached at www.reactivity.com, +1-650-551-7800 or info@reactivity.com. NOTE: Reactivity and Reactivity XML Firewall are trademarks of Reactivity, Inc. All other products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies. Source: Reactivity, Inc. CONTACT: Patrick Corman, +1-650-326-9648, or patrick@cormancom.com or David Finkelstein, +1-917-523-1161, or david@cormancom.com, both of Corman Communications for Reactivity, Inc. Web site: http://www.reactivity.com/ ------- Profile: International Entertainment