Email Security Leader eCert Expands Executive Team

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Latest Additions To Rapidly Growing Company Follows $8m Funding Announcement by Warburg Pincus

December 8, 2010 – San Francisco, Calif

eCert, Inc. (www.ecertsystems.com) has bolstered its executive team by hiring Henry Rodriguez III as Senior VP of Technology and Engineering, and Hilda Fontana as VP of Technology. Both will continue to enhance eCert’s email trust authority service, the only live service that detects, diagnoses and reduces phishing attacks and other forms of email fraud.

With more than 30 years of experience in the security, technology and communications industry, Henry “Ric” Rodriguez III has held senior technology executive roles including COO, CTO, CIO, Chief Architect and SVP Products. His executive service with several public companies includes Novell, Seagate, Raindance Communications and Webroot Software. While at Webroot, Rodriguez led the product technology and development of the award-winning security software programs “Spy Sweeper” and “Window Washer.”

Rodriguez’s innate ability to create and assemble teams for delivering world class, enterprise and consumer products and services crosses various technology markets: Internet, enterprise applications, telecommunications, networking and security. Rodriguez has been successful in both startups and public companies and is a leader in Agile Development methodologies. Most recently, Rodriguez led development on a VA-based project for the U.S. Department of Defense. He presently holds clearance.

Hilda Fontana brings over twenty years of messaging, critical infrastructure and standards experience to eCert. Prior to eCert, Fontana was Head of Special Projects at the Oprah Winfrey Network, including the re-development of Oprah.com and the launch of community tools for the OWN network of sites. With extensive experience in financial services technology, she previously led technology development as VP of Equity Technology at Lehman Brothers for over a decade. In addition, Fontana was also AVP of Technology for UK at Reuters, Senior European Site Project Manager for NATO through Unisys Government systems, and Senior European Site Project Manager for SHAPE (Strategic Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) through Unisys Government systems in Brussels, developing budgetary and security protocols for new technologies.

“With the rapid adoption of eCert’s email protection service by Internet Service Providers, financial institutions, government agencies, and major brands, eCert requires seasoned executives who are experienced in security, understand the requirements of the financial industry and government, and can create market-leading technologies that will restore consumer trust in email communications,” said Kelly Wanser, CEO, eCert. “Henry Rodriguez and Hilda Fontana are incredibly talented and have the depth of experience to drive our technology innovations.”

eCert recently announced an investment of up to $8m by Warburg Pincus. eCert’s email security services, including Email Domain eCertification™ and trusted email registry, are currently in operation for partners and customers such as Google, Yahoo!, Internet Identity, and top banks and credit unions.

About eCert

eCert provides critical protection against email fraud (“phishing”) to enterprises, government and other major organizations and their customers. eCert established the first "trusted intermediary" service to support email authentication and block malicious traffic, and is the only service of its kind in live operation. eCert’s customers include several of the country’s largest financial institutions, and its strategic partners include Yahoo! and Google. In 2010, eCert was selected by BITS Financial Services Roundtable and the Financial Services Information Sharing Advisory Council (FS-ISAC) to extend its email protection capabilities to the entire U.S financial services sector. eCert was founded in 2008 by veterans with experience in email, security and financial services technology. www.ecertsystems.com

PRESS CONTACTS:

Katy Lim
changepr@gmail.com

Larry Baird
larry(at)ecertsystems.com