[January 28, 2015]

OpenDNS Appoints Brian Roddy as Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations

OpenDNS, a leading provider of cloud-delivered security, today announced that it has appointed Brian Roddy as Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations. Previously leading the engineering and operations organization at Jive Software, Roddy is an expert in building scalable cloud infrastructure and network security products. In his new role, Roddy will oversee the continued expansion of the OpenDNS Global Network and lead the engineering teams in charge of building the company's innovative cloud-delivered security solutions.

Brian Roddy joins OpenDNS as Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations. (Photo: Business Wire)

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"We're very happy to have an exceptional leader like Brian Roddy join the OpenDNS engineering team," said David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS. "Engineering has played a key part in fueling our company's groth and innovation in cloud-delivered security. Brian has a track record of successfully developing business critical security products used by some of the largest enterprises in the world, and more importantly, Brian has the exceptional leadership skills necessary to manage a rapidly growing engineering team. These leadership traits, combined with our incredible people and technology, will help us reach our next set of milestones and beyond."

In his role at Jive Software (News - Alert), Roddy oversaw the planning and deployment of the company's product lines, supervised their transition to cloud offerings, integrated four acquisitions and grew the company's worldwide engineering organization by an order of magnitude in less than five years. As a key executive, Roddy was a Section 16 officer for Jive Software and helped prepare them for their eventual IPO. Prior to Jive, Roddy founded Reactivity, a leading secure XML gateway provider for Global 500 organizations that was acquired by Cisco (News - Alert) in 2007. At Cisco, he oversaw a team of more than 200 engineers building mission-critical, high performance networking and security products used by tens of thousands of enterprise customers. Roddy holds multiple technology patents and has written numerous byline articles on security and risk topics.

"I'm excited to join the OpenDNS engineering team, and I look forward to continuing the company's tradition of innovation, recruiting great technical talent and scaling our technology infrastructure for future success," said Brian Roddy, Executive Vice President of Engineering at OpenDNS. "I'm looking forward to helping the company grow and extend the capabilities of its world-class cloud-based security platform that meets the needs of today's businesses."

For more about Brian Roddy's new hire at OpenDNS, read the OpenDNS blog: http://blog.opendns.com/2015/01/28/brian-roddy-joins-opendns/

About OpenDNS

OpenDNS is a leading provider of network security and DNS services, enabling the world to connect to the Internet with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime. The Umbrella cloud-delivered network security service blocks advanced attacks, as well as malware, botnets and phishing threats regardless of port, protocol or application. Its predictive intelligence uses machine learning to automate protection against emergent threats before they can reach customers. OpenDNS protects all devices globally without hardware to install or software to maintain. For more information, please visit: www.opendns.com.

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