Company exhibits growth with new hires in key areas including channel sales, hosting services, outsourcing services and professional services.

NaviSite, Inc., a provider of IT hosting, outsourcing, and professional services for mid to large sized organizations, yesterday announced several new additions to its sales and management teams.

Key additions to the Professional Services practice include Jeff Johnson as Regional Vice President of Sales - East, and Patricia Yates, Regional Vice President of Sales - West. The Hosting Services business unit has been strengthened with the addition of Bob Durgy, Regional Vice President of Sales - East, and Mike Mazur, Vice President of Channel Sales and Alliances. Senior new hires to the Outsourcing Services practice area include Joe Murphy as the Vice President of Sales and Tom McAndrew, Vice President of Delivery.

Jeff Johnson, formerly of Oracle Corporation, will be working closely with Nasir Cochinwala, SVP of Professional Services, to build out NaviSite's Sales capacity for the Professional Services practice in the East, specifically related to Oracle application products. Patricia Yates joins the Professional Services leadership team as well, and brings over 22 years of software and systems integration solutions experience - holding positions at Oracle Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation and TRW. Yates will be leading the sales team in the West to enhance NaviSite's presence in the West Coast related to Oracle application and technology product stack.

Michael Mazur joins NaviSite's Hosting Services business unit, and brings extensive experience as a senior channel executive for several leading companies including Verio, Inc. Mazur will be tasked with further building out NaviSite's channel and alliance sales area. Bob Durgy will join the Hosting Services unit as well, bringing a strong background in competitive sales and strategies with over 15 years' progressive sales experience and over eight years in IT sales and sales management, most recently working for Verio, Inc.

Joe Murphy will be working closely with Sumeet Sabharwal, SVP of Outsourcing Services to further expand NaviSite's Outsourcing Services business unit. Additionally, Tom McAndrew brings a combined 30 years of IT and professional services consulting experience to NaviSite's Outsourcing Services business unit and has held various senior management roles for 17 years a Computer Sciences Corporation where McAndrew ran the eBusiness Practice and at E5 Systems where he helped build offshore development centers in China and India.

"As our core businesses continue to grow and develop, so will our need for highly qualified professionals to accomplish our goals in further building out our professional services and channel sales areas," said Arthur Becker, CEO, NaviSite. "We are happy to welcome each of these key new hires tasked to help NaviSite continue to grow in 2006."