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Voyence Expands Management Team, Adding VP for Worldwide Sales

23-year veteran heading global sales and channel partnerships to accelerate company leadership in network configuration management market.

Richardson, TX, April 23, 2005 — Voyence™ Inc., the leading provider of network configuration management solutions, today announced that Bill Cannon has been appointed vice president, worldwide sales. Cannon’s extensive 23-year background includes developing and executing strategic sales initiatives at Micromuse, Ameritech and AT&T. Cannon is responsible for direct and channel sales worldwide.

“We are thrilled to have an executive as well known as Bill spearhead our global sales efforts,” said Susan Nash, President and CEO, Voyence. “Bill has the industry contacts, a proven track record and domain expertise to accelerate the rapid adoption of our leading solution.”

Cannon comes to Voyence after most recently serving as Vice President, Sales and Tech Services at Micromuse. During more than five years at Micromuse, he had sales and technical services responsibilities for three key verticals including the Enterprise, Service Provider and Federal markets. Prior to Micromuse he was General Manager for Ameritech's Advanced Data Services Business Unit, which served Ameritech’s top 200 largest business and government customers. Before that he focused on managing strategic national accounts for AT&T, as well as building a strategic sales organization there, which successfully targeted the Fortune 500.

“During my tenure at Micromuse, I saw that Voyence, as a key Micromuse partner, was gaining significant traction solving network availability, security and compliance management customer problems with a solution that also increases operational efficiencies,” said Bill Cannon. “I am pleased to join the Voyence team and look forward to extending the company’s leadership.”

Mary Morgan, who has successfully led the Voyence global sales organization to date in garnering the most stellar list of customers in the industry, has been promoted into the strategic new role of Senior Vice President, Global Operations. Morgan’s focus is on operational delivery to enhance customer satisfaction with responsibilities spanning Product Management, Systems Engineering, Professional Services and Customer Support.

“I am proud that the average tenure of our executive staff exceeds three years with the company,” said Nash. “Mary Morgan, in working directly with our customers over the years and with her diverse background, has developed a unique perspective that allows her to lead our entire company, which is passionate about customer satisfaction, to achieve the highest standards in the industry.”


About Voyence
Voyence is the leading provider of enterprise network configuration and change management solutions that automate critical change, compliance, and activation processes. The company’s solution, VoyenceControl helps organizations drive out operational costs, increase network availability, improve security, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. VoyenceControl is the only network configuration and change management solution, based on a multi-tiered architecture that can effectively manage tens of thousands of devices across heterogeneous networks. No other solution automates configuration management for more enterprise networks than VoyenceControl. For more information go to www.voyence.com.

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