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United Devices Appoints Industry Leader Ben Rouse As CEO

United Devices Inc announced the appointment of ben rouse as chief executive officer. Rouse will lead United Devices' expansion into the cluster management and data center server provisioning markets as the company significantly expands its product and enterprise sales capabilities. Rouse brings more than 20 years experience building high performance computing and enterprise systems management businesses.

Prior to joining United Devices, Rouse served as president and chief executive officer of Journee, a pioneer in the Enterprise Information Integration market. Before that, Rouse was the general manager of a $200 million business unit for Tivoli Systems, a division of IBM.

"United Devices has proven technology, satisfied global customers and is about to expand into the cluster and provisioning space," said Rouse. "I see tremendous opportunities for accelerating sales growth and profitability. I'm excited to be joining a team that is on its way to becoming the top provider of dynamic IT infrastructure solutions."

Aaron Cheatham, principal with Mobius Venture Capital and a member of United Devices' board of directors said, "Adding Ben to the team will build upon the company's existing management assets and lay the foundation to drive further revenue growth and profitability as we look to expand upon existing customer successes."

Ed Hubbard, who founded the company in 1999 and has served as CEO for the last four years, continues as President and a member of the board of directors. In this capacity Hubbard will lead development of new market initiatives and will manage company operations by working closely with enterprise customers as they begin scaling their Grids beyond 10,000 nodes.

"We're excited to have Ben join the team," added Hubbard. "As United Devices increases our enterprise-wide rollouts Ben's experience will position us well to scale the business and drive growth throughout the enterprise IT infrastructure."