BOULDER, Colo., March 15, 2011 – Symplified® , the Cloud security company, today announced that Lisa Bergamo has joined the company as vice president of marketing.  Bergamo brings more than 25 years of high tech marketing, branding, and public relations experience to the Symplified executive management team. She will lead global corporate, product marketing and communications programs for the company, which is the market share leader in cloud identity with more than 1 million seats of the Symplified Suite currently deployed by Fortune 500 and small medium businesses.

“Lisa Bergamo is a proven marketing executive who has consistently delivered results for emerging technology vendors over the past two decades and knows what it takes to become and remain a market leader,” said Eric Olden, Founder and CEO of Symplified.  “She joins Symplified following a year of explosive growth, and will play a key role in helping us extend our leadership position, visibility and share of the cloud identity and access management market. Lisa is an impact player and a welcome addition to our management team.”

Prior to joining Symplified, Bergamo was founder and vice president of marketing for SOASTA, Inc., developer of an award-winning, on-demand cloud service for load and performance testing of websites and applications.  At SOASTA, Bergamo defined the company’s corporate branding, created the cloud testing category, and secured recognition for SOASTA as winner of the Red Herring’s “2010 Top 100” and the Wall Street Journal’s “Top 50 Startups.”  In 2002, Bergamo co-founded Iteration (later known as Istante) -- a software platform for real-time business intelligence.  During her tenure, the company was awarded “2004 Technology of the Year” by Infoworld.  Istante was acquired by Oracle in 2004. Bergamo has also held executive marketing positions with Neale-May and Partners/GlobalFluency, Sagent and CyberSource Corporation. “Symplified has been a driving force in establishing the market for cloud identity and access management,” said Bergamo. “I’m excited to be joining Symplified at this pivotal point in the company’s development and at a time when demand for cloud security solutions is catching fire. We have a big market, mature technology, and leadership position – all the ingredients necessary to build a very successful business."

About Symplified | The Cloud Security Company
Symplified provides the trust fabric of the Cloud by enabling companies to extend and enforce identity and access management policies on cloud applications. Symplified is the market share leader in cloud identity with more than 1 million seats of the Symplified Suite currently deployed by Fortune 500 and small medium businesses. The company has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal in its 10th Annual Technology Innovation Awards, named Coolest Cloud Security Vendor by CRN, and a Start-Up to Watch by Network World. Symplified’s management team has been developing pioneering identity and access management solutions for 15 years, and created Web access management market maker Securant and the ClearTrust product, which was acquired by RSA Security for $140 million. The company has received more than $18M in financing from leading venture capital firms Granite Ventures and Allegis Capital.  Symplified is headquartered in Boulder, Colo., with offices in Palo Alto, Calif.