F-Secure Promotes Curtis Cresta to Lead North America Operations

F-Secure® Corporation (HEX:FSC) announces that it has promoted Curtis Cresta to the position of Vice President, North American Operations. Mr. Cresta will have P&L responsibility for the entire United States and Canada. Cresta was formerly Vice President of Sales in North America for F-Secure, a position he occupied for the past two years.

Mr. Cresta brings 15 years of technology sales and management experience to F-Secure and has held sales leadership positions at RadView, MicroStrategy, and FTP Software. Mr. Cresta holds a degree in Business Administration and Marketing from Worcester State College, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program (EPGC).

Speaking about his appointment Cresta said: “This is an exciting time in the North American data security market and I am pleased to be with an organization which is ready to enter its next stage of growth and market leadership. F-Secure has a strong and expanding portfolio of products and a reputation for delivering excellence, and I look forward to capitalizing on the market opportunity and continuing to build on our momentum.”

Cresta succeeds Travis Witteveen, who lead F-Secure’s North America operations since 2004 and who continues his career at F-Secure as a member of the executive board at F-Secure’s Helsinki headquarters.

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About F-Secure Corporation

F-Secure Corporation is the fastest growing publicly listed company globally in the antivirus and intrusion prevention industry with more than 50% revenue growth of antivirus revenues in 2004. F-Secure services and software protect individuals and businesses against computer viruses and other threats coming through the Internet or mobile networks. Our award-winning solutions include antivirus and desktop firewall with intrusion prevention, antispam and antispyware solutions. Our key strength is our proven speed of response to new threats. For businesses our solutions feature a centrally managed and well integrated suite of solutions for workstations and servers alike. Focused partners offer security as a service for those companies that do not wish to build security expertise in-house. Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges since 1999. We have our headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, and offices in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom and USA. F-Secure is supported by a global ecosystem of service partners, value added resellers and distributors in over 50 countries. F-Secure protection is also available through mobile handset manufacturers such as Nokia and as a service through major Internet Service Providers, such as Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and Charter Communications. The latest real-time virus threat scenario news are available at the F-Secure Antivirus Research Team weblog at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

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