Tim Buckley, Ex-Red Hat COO, Joins rPath as Executive Chairman

rPath Welcomes Ex-Red Hat COO Tim Buckley
 
Enterprise Sales and Marketing Leader Joins Company as Executive Chairman
 
RALEIGH, N.C. - January 13, 2009 - rPath today announced that Tim Buckley, principal of Buckley
Investments and former chief operating officer of Red Hat, has joined the rPath board of directors
as the executive chairman. From his newly created post, Buckley will help rPath accelerate its push
into the enterprise market with solutions for reducing the cost and complexity of delivering
applications to traditional, virtualized, and cloud-based environments.
 
"Tim is an operating executive with decades of experience in running sales organizations and
go-to-market teams for software companies," said Erik Troan, founder and CTO of rPath. "As an
executive with Red Hat, I had the opportunity to work closely with Tim. Few others match his talent
and leadership in growing companies in enterprise markets. This makes Tim a powerful addition to
the rPath team and a key ingredient for our ongoing growth in the enterprise."
 
Buckley brings more than 20 years of experience in sales and marketing leadership for high-growth
technology start-ups. Prior to founding Buckley Investments LLC, a Raleigh, NC-based consulting
company, he was COO for Red Hat, where he was part of the executive team that transformed the
company from a start-up to the dominant provider of open source operating systems to the enterprise
market. Red Hat has publicly credited Buckley with its worldwide growth and transformation into an
enterprise sales organization.
 
Prior to Red Hat, Buckley was senior vice president of worldwide sales for Seattle-based Visio
Corp., where he was instrumental in growing the company from start-up to IPO and ultimately through
a $1.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft. Earlier, Buckley was an executive with Aldus, the
developers of PageMaker; and Approach, which he helped launch from its early stages through a major
acquisition by Lotus Development Corp.
 
According to Buckley, "rPath has the perfect combination of team, technology, and market timing to
be a major force in changing the way organizations think about enterprise application deployment
and management. The importance of reducing the cost and complexity of application delivery is high
on the minds of every CIO, who see this as an important step to increasing business responsiveness,
reducing operating costs, and finding ways to do more with less. I am very enthusiastic about the
rPath vision, and I'm looking forward to playing an active role in the company's ongoing growth and
success."
 
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Recent News and Resources
 
News release: rPath and WANdisco Partner to Reduce the Cost and Complexity of Enterprise
Application Delivery; http://www.rpath.com/corp/news-and-events/317-01062009
 
News release: rPath Puts Cloud Computing in Plain English on YouTube;
http://www.rpath.com/corp/news-and-events/313-12192008
 
News release: rPath Expands Multi Operating System Support with Ubuntu, CentOS;
http://www.rpath.com/corp/news-and-events/293-11192008
 
News release: rPath Initiative Aims to Close the Application Deployment Gap;
http://www.rpath.com/corp/news-and-events/269-10282008
 
rPath Cloud Computing Adoption Model:
Landing page: http://www.rpath.com/corp/cloud-adoption-model 
News releases: http://www.rpath.com/corp/news-and-events/259 and
http://www.rpath.com/corp/news-and-events/278-11032008
Framework: http://www.rpath.com/corp/images/stories/other/rpath_ccam... 
Commentary:
http://blogs.rpath.com/wpmu/closing-the-gap/2008/10/23/th...
 
About rPath
 
rPath is widely recognized as a pioneer in solutions for reducing the cost and complexity of
delivering enterprise applications to traditional, virtualized and cloud-based environments.
Leading ISVs and enterprises rely on rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform for rapid
deployment and low-overhead management and maintenance of complex application workloads. This
dramatically improves business agility and allows resource-constrained IT organizations to "do more
with less" by reducing the cost and complexity of application delivery. By producing application
images and virtual appliances that can run most anywhere, rPath frees the application from the
underlying hardware, simplifying deployment, portability and promoting scalability in response to
dynamic demand. rPath is headquartered in Raleigh, NC. Visit www.rpath.com.
 
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