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Deanna Leung has 15 years of marketing experience, and has shown
demonstrated success in building start-ups into market leaders.
Most recently, as the corporate marketing and PR director at Aventail,
Deanna defined a new product category called SSL VPNs. When she
left the company in 2003, Aventail was viewed as the industry leader
with more than 22 major awards, including Network World's
50 Most Powerful People in Networking, Network Magazine's
Product of the Year, Computerworld's Emerging Company,
Network Computing's Editor's Choice Award, and being named
the leader in Gartner's magic quadrant for two years in a row.
Prior to Aventail, Deanna was the marketing director for CompuServe's
Internet Division, where she launched their Internet Service business.
In less than 12 months, SPRYNet catapulted from a non-player to
the #2 position and was recognized as the fastest growing Internet
service. From 1992 to 1995, Deanna drove the PR initiatives at SPRY
and introduced the first Internet software solution, Internet In
A Box. SPRY received thousands of pieces of coverage in various
media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today,
CNN, PC Magazine, C|Net as well as other popular consumer and
industry trade publications. The company's extensive press coverage
played an instrumental role in CompuServe's acquisition of SPRY
for $100 million -- the Internet industry's largest acquisition
during that time period.
Deanna holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington.
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Michele Mehl is a results-driven professional with 10 years of
public relations and marketing experience in enterprise and Internet
technology. Most recently, Michele served as Aventail's director
of public relations where she lead efforts to secure 30 percent
more press coverage than the company's closest competitors, which
include high-profile vendors like Cisco, Nokia, and Checkpoint.
Michele also managed an aggressive analyst relations program, resulting
in the company's leadership position in three Gartner Magic Quadrants,
a ForresterWave, and a METASpectrum, as well as multiple other leadership
awards from companies like Frost & Sullivan, Stratecast Partners,
and SC Magazine.
Before Aventail, Michele served as director of communications for
Ask Jeeves' enterprise software division, Jeeves Solutions, which
was purchased by Knova Software. At Jeeves, Michele lead PR and
customer advocacy initiatives, resulting in strategically placed
coverage and customer testimonials in publications like Wall
Street Journal, New York Times, Computerworld, Forbes, eWeek, InformationWeek,
and InfoWorld. She also managed Jeeves' analyst relations
program, resulting in favorable and compelling analyst reports by
Gartner, Forrester Research, Yankee Group, Delphi Group, Datamonitor
and Aberdeen. Prior to Ask Jeeves, Michele worked for InterActive
Public Relations, which was an aggressive PR firm for emerging technology
companies. At InterActive, Michele worked with multiple start-up
vendors to help define and aggressively communicate their stories
to the market, including Ask Jeeves, Brightmail (purchased by Symantec),
Fast Forward Networks (purchased by Inktomi, which is now part of
Yahoo!), Seeker Software (purchased by Concur Technologies), Sendmail,
Network Appliance, and CollabNet.
Michele holds a B.A. in Communications from University of the Pacific.
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