Veteran Technology Executive Leaves Retirement to Head Up Leading On-Demand Email Archiving Firm
February 8, 2007 - Toronto - Fortiva Inc., a provider of secure, on-demand email archiving, today announced that software industry veteran Eric Goodwin has been named chief executive officer. Goodwin, who was appointed chairman of the board of directors for Fortiva in 2003, is coming out of retirement to take on this role at Fortiva.
A highly respected business leader in the technology sector, Goodwin brings more than 40 years of software development, management, and leadership experience to Fortiva. As CEO, Goodwin will be responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of Fortiva, with a focus on furthering Fortiva's growth as the leading on-demand email archiving provider.
"Two key things influenced my decision to come out of retirement to lead Fortiva - the strength and experience of the management team and my strong belief that on-demand services are on the verge of fundamentally changing the way businesses acquire and deploy software," said Eric Goodwin, CEO, Fortiva. "Fortiva represents a prime example of how Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) can help businesses to deploy solutions faster, cheaper, with fewer risks and immediate benefits. I am looking forward to building on Fortiva's recent successes by continuing to expand our customer base and secure strategic partnerships."
Prior to joining Fortiva, Goodwin headed a series of successful technology firms. Most recently, as CEO of Klocwork, he initiated two years of rapid growth before retiring. Prior to joining Klocwork, Goodwin served as CEO of FloNetwork Inc. from July 1999 to July 2001 when it was sold to DoubleClick (NASDAQ:DCLK). During that period FloNetwork grew from a 25-person company to over 270, and was the acknowledged leader in email relationship management.
Goodwin was also a co-founder and CEO of Fulcrum Technologies, now part of OpenText (Nasdaq:OTEX) (TSX:OTC). Over a 12-year period, he saw the company grow to over $60 million in revenue, while guiding the company through its early customer wins, strategic partnerships and investments, increasing mainstream adoption, a NASDAQ IPO and secondary offering on the TSE. Under his leadership, Fulcrum and its customers won several prestigious awards for growth and excellence, including a ComputerWorld Smithsonian Award, CrossRoads A-List, Software Magazine's Top 100 and many others.
About Fortiva Inc.
Fortiva is the leading provider of on-demand email archiving solutions for regulatory compliance, legal discovery and mailbox management. The Fortiva Archiving Suite automatically captures and indexes all electronic communications for redundant storage offsite. By outsourcing to Fortiva, customers can enforce a consistent message retention policy without having to worry about managing the storage infrastructure. Fortiva is the only email archiving service provider that guarantees search performance while offering total data privacy in a fully managed solution.
With offices in Canada and the United States and a global data center presence, Fortiva delivers its customer-driven solutions through a strong network of strategic partnerships as well as a direct sales force. Fortiva is a privately owned company, with investment from Cargill Ventures, McLean Watson Capital and Ventures West. For more information, visit www.fortiva.com.
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