Extreme Names VP

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Extreme Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXTR - News) today announced that it has appointed Paul Rath to vice president of sales for Asia-Pacific and Japan. Rath brings to Extreme Networks® more than twenty five years of sales and executive management experience with leading high technology companies, McData and EMC.

Mr. Rath will lead Extreme Networks sales organization in Asia Pacific and Japan. He has worked extensively throughout Asia with demonstrated successes building sales teams and channel organizations and achieving revenue growth goals in Singapore, China, South Korea and Australia. Extreme Networks provides innovations with network solutions that promote increased intelligence and reliability for both enterprise and service provider customers that are deploying converged voice, video and data.

"Extreme Networks has a long history in Asia-Pacific with enterprise and service provider customers and a well established channel partner infrastructure in the region," said Helmut Wilke, senior vice president of worldwide sales for Extreme Networks. "Paul Rath brings to Extreme a wide breadth of sales and executive management experience with a track record of positive results throughout Asia, where his unique qualifications will help us to achieve our ambitious growth objectives for the region."

Extreme Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: EXTR)