Montgomery is currently senior director of desktop product management for VMware, Inc., and has a strong background in engineering and marketing of WAN optimization solutions.

Montgomery’s 20-year background includes vice president of product management at Blue Coat Systems, senior director of product marketing at Citrix Systems, and founder and CEO of Netoria. He has a long and distinguished track record of bringing enterprise networking products to market and integrating acquired products, including the acquisition of Packeteer while at Blue Coat Systems.

“Phil Montgomery brings additional depth in enterprise WAN optimization and networking products to his seat on the board at Exinda,” said Michael Sharma, CEO of Exinda. “We look forward to his contributions as we chart the next phase of Exinda’s growth.”

About Exinda®

Exinda is a proven global supplier of next generation WAN Optimisation and Application Acceleration products. The company has helped over 2,500 organizations in over 80 countries worldwide improve the end user experience, manage application performance, manage congestion over the WAN and reduce network operating costs for the IT executive. For more information, please visit http://www.exinda.com.