Avocent Corporation Announces Appointment of Albert Crews as VP of Sales in the Americas

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Feb. 12, 2007 – Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ: AVCT) today announced that Albert E. Crews has been appointed vice president of sales for branded products in the Americas. In his new position, Crews is responsible for revenue building, new business development and channel sales development to support and advance Avocent’s market-leading IT infrastructure management solutions business.

“We are very pleased to have Al lead our team during this important time of change in the IT industry,” said Dudley DeVore, Avocent senior vice president of global branded markets. “IT departments are challenged daily with supporting growing business services while also being energy and space efficient, and Al’s problem-solving leadership will serve us well in delivering better integrated solutions to help our customers meet those challenges.”

Crews will oversee sales programs for Avocent’s Management Systems Division in the North and South American regions to grow the company’s data center, branch office and SMB sales efforts. The Avocent sales strategy involves selling through channel and distribution partnerships worldwide.

“Avocent is an exciting and growing company with an impressive suite of products and a bright future. I look forward to continuing to build the outstanding sales team that has managed to maintain consistent growth through a time of acquisition and change, both within Avocent and the industry at large,” said Crews. 

Crews has over 20 years of sales and sales management experience in enterprise IT markets. Prior to joining Avocent, he served as a sales director with Mimosa Systems, a Santa Clara, Calif. based provider of live content management solutions.  He previously held a regional director position with Symantec Corporation (formerly Veritas Software), where he managed business growth from $50M to $130M over a five year period, including the initial integration of the Veritas and Symantec sales teams.  He also held various sales and sales management positions with Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems and Data General Corporation (since acquired by EMC).

Crews earned his M.B.A. as well as a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Auburn University, Auburn, Ala.

About Avocent
Avocent delivers IT infrastructure management solutions that reduce operating costs, simplify management and increase the availability of critical, "always on" IT environments via integrated, centralized in-band and out-of-band hardware and software. Through LANDesk®, Avocent also is a leading provider of systems, security, and process management solutions. Additional information is available at: www.avocent.com.

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