News: Press Release
Mark Leslie, Former Veritas CEO, Chairman and Founder, joins Scalix Corporation Board of Directors
SAN MATEO, CA — OCTOBER 22, 2003 — Scalix Corporation, fast emerging as the leader of enterprise-class messaging solutions for Linux, today announced that entrepreneur and industry veteran Mark Leslie has joined its board of directors. Leslie was the founding CEO of Veritas Software and also served as its president and chairman.
“Mark successfully led Veritas from a small business to one of the largest and most respected enterprise software companies in the world,” said Julie Farris, Scalix’s founder and CEO. “I am excited to be able to tap into Mark’s deep experience in managing a company through all stages of growth, as Scalix pursues its mission to become the leading messaging provider in the Linux market.”
“Scalix is well positioned at the intersection of two major markets: Linux, the fastest growing server platform and enterprise email, the most important medium for business communications today,” said Leslie. “They are off to a strong start with a veteran team with deep domain expertise in messaging, a proven technology platform and top tier financial backing. I am looking forward to helping Scalix meet the high expectations it has set for itself in serving its customers.”
During his ten years leading Veritas, Leslie grew revenue from $95,000 to $1.5 billion, and expanded its employee base from 12 to 5,500 employees worldwide. In 2000, Veritas was the tenth largest independent software company by revenue, third largest by market capitalization and achieved the distinction of becoming a Fortune 1000 company. Veritas is the world’s leading storage software company, providing data protection, storage management, high availability and disaster recovery software to 99 percent of the Fortune 500.
Leslie is currently the managing director of Leslie Ventures, a private investment company. He is also a lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Graduate School of Engineering. In addition to continuing to serve on Veritas’ board of directors, Leslie also holds board positions at Avaya Corporation, VMware Corporation, Model N Software, Outerbay Technologies Corporation, PostX Corporation, and Zaplet Corporation. He also sits on the boards of non-profit organizations such as the Community Foundation of Silicon Valley, the Leslie Family Foundation and the Veritas Software Foundation. He has degrees in physics and mathematics from New York University and completed Harvard Business School’s program for management development.
ABOUT SCALIX CORPORATION
Scalix has created the industry’s most powerful email and calendaring platform, offering a scalable, extensible and manageable environment at half the cost of comparable solutions. Based on Linux and Open Systems Architecture (OSA), Scalix's next generation messaging architecture is uniquely matched to the needs of large enterprise customers. Scalix offers a proven technology foundation and an industry-experienced team that has helped pioneer the world’s best messaging systems at IBM, Lotus, Microsoft, cc:Mail, and Hewlett-Packard. The privately-held company is backed by leading Silicon Valley venture firms Mayfield and New Enterprise Associates and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA with offices in New York and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.scalix.com or call 650.212-8300.
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