Emeryville, Calif., October 29, 2008 - Sendmail, Inc., the leading provider of reliable and secure email and messaging infrastructures, today announced the promotion of Gregory Shapiro to Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.

In his tenure at Sendmail, Shapiro has held prominent roles in the engineering, information technology, and business development departments, each time bringing the highest level of expertise and leadership to projects. After four years of leading Sendmail's products in production, he returned to improving those solutions, first in the business development group researching and evaluating partner products for the Sendmail Message Processing Engine and most recently as the engineering group's chief architect.

“Greg has been with Sendmail from the start and has a very deep understanding of both our products and our customers' needs,” said Donald J. Massaro, President and CEO of Sendmail, Inc. “He has had tours in Engineering, IT and Business Development, and over the past two years I have been using Greg in the CTO capacity and as my personal technical advisor. Greg's advice and counsel have been critical in setting the technical direction of Sendmail.”

Prior to Sendmail, Shapiro began his professional career as a systems administrator for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He graduated from WPI with a degree in Computer Science in 1992.

Shapiro is a FreeBSD committer, has served as program committee member for BSDCon 2002, and program chairman for BSDCon 2003. In addition, he has contributed to the past three editions of the O'Reilly sendmail book.

About Sendmail, Inc.
Sendmail provides a message processing platform consisting of appliances, applications and services, architected to enable enterprises to modernize messaging infrastructure with an intelligent email backbone for policy-based message routing and managing system generated communications between groupware systems, deployed on-premise or in the cloud, and the Internet. Since 1982, thousands of enterprises around the world have relied on Sendmail open source and the award winning Sentrion hard and virtual appliances, with optional plug-in messaging applications from the Sentrion Application Store for gateway management, inbound threat protection, outbound data leak security, full message content scanning for regulatory compliance, and critical customer communications. Sendmail is headquartered in Emeryville, CA with sales and support offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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