Quentin Gallivan, formerly an Executive Vice President at Verisign, was selected based on his track record in building large scale global distribution channels.

Postini, a provider of email security and management solutions, yesterday announced the appointment of Quentin Gallivan as its President and Chief Executive Officer.
 
Gallivan, 47, joined VeriSign in 1997 and most recently served as its Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Services. He was responsible for executing and scaling a broad-based global distribution strategy for VeriSign's security services business. Prior to VeriSign, Gallivan held a broad range of management and leadership positions at Netscape and GE Information Services. Postini claims that Gallivan was selected based on his track record in building large scale global distribution channels as well as his organizational leadership qualities. He will assume his new duties on November 28 and will also join Postini's board.

"Quentin brings a broad array of skills and security and managed services experience to the company," said Scott Petry, Founder and Senior Vice President of Products and Engineering at Postini. "His deep sales and marketing expertise will undoubtedly be an asset to us as we leverage our industry-leading managed services platform to deliver a comprehensive and integrated suite of message management products that address security, availability, compliance, and visibility requirements of businesses around the world."

"I'm thrilled to be joining this vibrant, high-growth organization," commented Gallivan. "Based on my experience, I believe Postini has incredible customer and technology assets. These provide solid building blocks for scaling a business in a very large and exciting market. The management team and the employees have done an outstanding job in taking the company to where it is today."