ACTON, Mass., September 22, 2010 – eIQnetworks, the leader in Unified Situational Awareness solutions, announced today that it has named John Sullivan executive vice president of sales & marketing, and chief operations officer (COO) of the company. Bringing more than 25 years’ experience in senior-level software sales and marketing, Sullivan is responsible for driving the company’s growth into key strategic markets.

“As a proven leader and builder, John will help drive eIQnetworks’ explosive growth in the rapidly developing Unified Situational Awareness market,” said Vijay Basani, president and CEO, eIQnetworks. “Situational Awareness is essential in the fight against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, mobile security and ever-growing compliance regulations. I look forward to John’s insight and leadership as a growing number of global enterprises and government agencies realize the need to cross-correlate all data and implement both general and prescriptive security controls in building viable cyber defenses.”

John will oversee and drive worldwide sales and marketing activities for eIQnetworks and manage the company’s key strategic programs and corporate strategy. He brings more than 25 years of experience in enterprise software sales and sales management. John was the senior vice president of sales for eIQnetworks from 2007 to 2009, helping grow bookings at more than 70% per year. Just before his current position with the company, John was vice president of North American sales for Micro Focus and ran a $100-million business unit from 2009 to 2010. John’s previous experience includes senior-level positions at Segue Software, where he ran worldwide sales and helped lead the company to its acquisition by Borland Software in 2006 for $110 million. Before that he was instrumental in growing Pedestal Software prior to its acquisition by Altiris in 2005 for $75 million.

“eIQnetworks addresses the challenges and short comings of SIEM, configuration audit and other point products. We are the first vendor to bring it all together and provide true situational awareness, while reducing the complexity and cost of security, risk and compliance management,” said John Sullivan. “eIQnetworks has a completely unique approach to Unified Situational Awareness and I’m excited to be part of a company with a disruptive technology that solves customer problems.”

About eIQnetworks

eIQnetworks, Inc. is a pioneer in Unified Situational Awareness solutions that combine configuration audit, next-generation SIEM, file integrity monitoring, compliance automation and investigative analysis into a single platform. SecureVue is the only platform that leverages current technology investments to aggregate, correlate and analyze all data, providing complete clarity and deep visibility into security and compliance while dramatically reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) required to achieve true enterprise-wide Situational Awareness. The company’s flagship solution, SecureVue, provides a single unified solution for many of the world’s largest enterprises in a variety of industries, such as government, financial services, energy, healthcare, utilities and retail. eIQnetworks is a privately held company headquartered in Acton, Mass. More information can be found at www.eIQnetworks.com