Van Hugte Joins as Vice President of EMEA
Portsmouth, NH and Amsterdam, Netherlands- January 25, 2007 – BeyondTrust Corporation, the leading provider
of Enterprise Least Privilege Management solutions, today announced European expansion plans and a new addition to its executive
team. Leading BeyondTrust’s European operations, Paul van Hugte is an experienced leader with a proven track record of
successfully expanding European markets for security software companies.
“BeyondTrust continues to broaden its leadership team to meet the growing needs of its global enterprise customers and
partners,” said John Moyer, CEO of BeyondTrust. “Our European expansion is the result of customer and systems integration
partner demand and is a sign of the growing adoption of the security best practice of Least Privilege, made possible by
BeyondTrust Privilege Manager, the first product to enable Least Privilege in Windows environments. We are thrilled to have
someone with van Hugte’s talent and experience to help lead this phase of our operations.”
Van Hugte joins BeyondTrust as vice president of EMEA, with 19 years in the IT business and 15 years of management experience
leading start-ups, groups, divisions and geographical regions for companies such as A-Line technologies, World Online, BT
Syntegra and Network Associates. Most relevant, is van Hugte’s recent position of vice president of McAfee Central Europe.
“I am excited to be part of this innovative company and to lead its European efforts,” said van Hugte.
Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, van Hugte will oversee BeyondTrust’s sales to meet the overwhelming demand for BeyondTrust
Privilege Manager in Europe, where recent wins include financial and petrochemical concerns in excess of 20,000 seats. Van Hugte
is developing the BeyondTrust business with direct sales and a network of system integrators, value added resellers and
distributors.
About BeyondTrust
BeyondTrust Privilege Manager was the first product to allow administrators to assign permissions to applications and tasks,
enabling the security best practice of Least Privilege in Windows environments. BeyondTrust Privilege Manager has won many
prestigious awards, including "Excellence in Management of Least Privilege - Customer Trust 2006" (Info Security Products Guide),
"Best of TechEd 2006 - Security Finalist "(Windows IT Pro/SQL Server Magazine), and "Best Product of 2005 - Policy Management"
(MSD2D People’s Choice Security Award).
Public Relations Information
Dave Bowker or John McElhenny
Schwartz Communications
(781) 684-0770
BeyondTrust@schwartz-pr.com
For more information, visit www.beyondtrust.com.