IntelliGuard Appoints Dr John Burgin as Board Chairman

15 Mar 2006 - IntelliGuard today announced the appointment of Dr John Burgin to its Board of Directors as Chairman.
Dr Burgin recently joined Oracle as Senior Director responsible for Oracle's outsourcing business across the Asia Pacific for the communications industry. Prior to this he had a long and distinguished career with Hewlett Packard, as Director of Global Internet Projects Centre in California directing teams delivering HP’s Internet infrastructure projects to its telecom customers worldwide, building HP’s presence in the Internet messaging market, and more recently as Director of Network & Service Provider Industry, Asia Pacific and Japan.

“John has mentored IntelliGuard since its inception, providing technical expertise and in-depth market and business understanding, and been an instrumental part of IntelliGuard’s success to date,” notes IntelliGuard founder, Ken Baker. “He brings to IntelliGuard broad expertise and experience in the global IT market, and we look forward to his contributions at Board level.”

“It is an honor to join the Board”, said Dr Burgin. “IntelliGuard’s patented technologies are very exciting and I look forward to working with all stakeholders to help set the strategic direction for developing this technology for the global market.”

About IntelliGuard

IntelliGuard is the leading provider of DDoS protection systems. IntelliGuard DPS series provides comprehensive DDoS protection, while the complementary Reporting System provides full-featured reporting for historical network views of traffic flows and incidents. IntelliGuard is a VC-backed privately held company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Seoul. The IntelliGuard DPS appliances are available from prices starting at US$45,000 for 1Gbps models. For more information, please visit www.IntelliGuardit.net