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Ryan Ward Joins Avatier As Chief Innovation Officer

Former MillerCoors USA Information Security Officer also Named Chief Information Security Officer

SAN RAMON, Calif. — May 1, 2012 — Avatier, a leading identity access and risk management solutions provider, today announced the hiring of Ryan Ward as Chief Information Security Officer. Ward will also serve as the company’s Chief Innovation Officer.

"Innovation is one of our core values and a key to our strategy," said Nelson Cicchitto, Avatier Chairman and CEO. "As Chief Innovation Officer, and in his more traditional role of Chief Information Security Officer, Ward will play a critical role on our management team and be responsible for advancing the execution of strategies for both innovation and security. We are fortunate to have someone with Ward’s experience to further these actions."

A sixteen-year veteran of the security industry, Ward comes to Avatier after five years with MillerCoors where he served as Enterprise Security Manager of the brewing company and USA Information Security Officer for the public company SABMiller. In those positions Ward was responsible for all Information Security initiatives for MillerCoors. Prior to MillerCoors, he served as Senior Information Security Leader at Perot Systems while supporting the Wolters Kluwer account. He previously held the position of Vice President of Information Systems for Allscripts.

Ryan is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

About Avatier

Avatier is the most innovative identity and access risk management solutions company in the world. The company invented the world’s first business service catalog in the form of an IT Store with automatic workflow, and its award-winning products are deployed worldwide across 16 vertical markets and hundreds of organizations with millions of managed user identities. The company’s Identity and Access Risk Management (ARM) suite incorporates products for user provisioning, password management, compliance governance and risk intelligence. All solutions represent the quickest time to value and the best operational efficiencies in the industry because of their innovative use of graphical configuration versus complex coding and scripting. Avatier is based in San Ramon, Calif., and is privately held. For more information on Avatier Corporation, go to https://www.avatier.com or call 800-609-8610.

Contact:
Gary Thompson
Clarity Communications
415-963-4082, ext. 101
gthompson@claritycommunications.us