BitTorrent Appoints New VPs to its Management Team

SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--
BitTorrent, the global standard technology for the delivery of
rich media on the Internet, today announced that Ilan Shamir has
joined the company as vice president of engineering, where he will
drive the company's technology roadmap and oversee its world-class
engineering team. BitTorrent also announced that Simon Morris,
previously director of product management, has been promoted to vice
president of product management and is now responsible for the
direction of BitTorrent's software clients, products and services.

"Above and beyond a world-renowned brand and many millions of
users, what makes BitTorrent special is a world-class product
development team. I am proud to announce that we have recruited Simon
and Ilan to lead our development efforts," said Ashwin Navin,
president and co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc. "They will play a
critical role as we continue to drive the growth of our user base and
technology adoption within our ecosystem of partners, including
content publishers, software developers, hardware manufacturers, and
network operators."

Ilan Shamir brings over 20 years of experience as a seasoned
executive, manager and architect. Prior to joining BitTorrent's
world-class team of engineers, Shamir was the general manager of
Endpoint Products at Check Point Software Technologies, responsible
for leading a distributed organization of 120 employees and the
direction of products for both the consumer and enterprise businesses.

Before Check Point, Shamir has held key leadership positions at
Decru (now NetApp), ePit Systems, and Senterprise Inc. Most notably,
Shamir was the CEO, CTO and Founder of SideTalk Inc. where he grew the
company to 30 employees and later sold it to a public company. Shamir
has also served as a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab focused
on peer-to-peer software research. Shamir earned bachelor's degrees in
Computer Science from The Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel).

New VP of product management Simon Morris has over 15 years of
experience serving in leadership positions responsible for product
strategy, development and management. Before joining BitTorrent,
Morris was the director of product management for Openwave System's
Client Business, where he led all strategy, planning and execution for
a $100 million-a-year global business unit. During his tenure at
Openwave, he also led divisional strategic planning for Openwave's
$300 million-a-year server division. Prior to that, Morris led channel
and product marketing for the worldwide hosted public key
infrastructure (PKI) Affiliate business at VeriSign, a leading
Internet infrastructure services provider, and was a founder of
Mercantil, Inc., a successful venture-backed online business based in
South America.

Morris holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Cambridge
University and earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from
Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

About BitTorrent

BitTorrent is the global standard for delivering high-quality
files over the Internet. Millions of users worldwide are using
BitTorrent's leading peer-accelerated content delivery platform to
publish, discover and download digital entertainment content quickly,
easily and securely. Founded in 2004, BitTorrent is a privately held
company backed by venture capital firms, Accel and DCM. The company is
headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information,
visit www.bittorrent.com.

BitTorrent is a trademark of BitTorrent, Inc.

BitTorrent, Inc.
Lily Lin, 415-568-9007
lily@bittorrent.com

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