Symplified Appoints Jason Merrick Vice President of Business Development

SaaS Security and Identity Management Start-Up Adds Industry
Veteran to Build Out SinglePoint Security Integration Ecosystem
BOULDER, Colo.--(Business Wire)--
Symplified, the On Demand Identity Company, today announced the
appointment of Jason Merrick as vice president of business
development. Merrick brings more than 15 years of enterprise identity
management and security experience to Symplified. He has played a
pivotal role with several successful start-up security technology
vendors including Securant Technologies (now RSA Security), Teros (now
Citrix) and Air Tight Networks.

Merrick will focus on building and managing vendor partnerships
for Symplified's SinglePoint Network - the industry's first open
identity and security ecosystem that connects Software as a Service
(SaaS) applications, cloud computing systems and enterprise networks.
SinglePoint is available in two versions: completely hosted or
deployed behind the corporate firewall using the Symplified Identity
Router. Serving as a security integration hub, Symplified SinglePoint
enables customers to implement in just days identity management that
bridges SaaS and enterprise applications.

"Jason Merrick has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to rapidly
build technical and strategic partnerships for start-ups in the
identity management and security markets," said Eric Olden, founder
and CEO of Symplified. "He has the technology, management and business
experience to build out the SinglePoint Network's ecosystem and help
Symplified achieve its goal of becoming the App Exchange for SaaS
security."

Merrick joins Symplified from Air Tight Networks, a vendor of
wireless vulnerability management solutions, where he was vice
president of worldwide technical sales and managed strategic partner
relationships with Extreme Networks, 3COM, Siemens and Trustwave.
Previously he held senior technical services management positions at
Teros, a vendor of web application firewalls acquired by Citrix. With
identity management pioneer Securant Technologies, Merrick helped grow
the start-ups' customer base to more than 300 enterprises worldwide in
less than 2 years until the company's acquisition by RSA Security.
Earlier in his career Merrick held technical positions with access
control vendor Memco Software, which was acquired by Platinum
Technologies. Merrick holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting
from the University of San Francisco.

About Symplified

Symplified's vision is to enable Enterprise 2.0 to adopt cloud
computing by providing the identity infrastructure for the On Demand
world. Symplified was founded by the same management team that created
Securant, which pioneered the market for Web access management
software and was acquired for $140M by RSA Security. The company has
developed revolutionary technology that addresses the complexity and
cost associated with monolithic software approaches to Web identity
management. Venture funding for the company was provided by Granite
Ventures and Allegis Capital. Symplified is headquartered in Boulder,
Colo., with offices in Palo Alto, Calif. Visit us on the web at
www.symplified.com.

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