Tehuti Networks Appoints New Vice President of Marketing and Sales

Herzelia , Israel – February 7, 2005 –Tehuti Networks, a semiconductor company providing technology to accelerate TCP/IP processing, announced that Blaine Kohl has been named as vice president of marketing and sales. Reporting to CEO Arie Brish, Ms. Kohl is responsible for all aspects of marketing and sales.

Bringing to Tehuti Networks an extensive track record of defining and launching new technologies, Ms. Kohl has worked with industry leaders to develop end-to-end solutions and setting sales and profitability goals. She has more than 13 years of experience in the high technology sector and has worked for Fortune 100 companies as well as multiple start-up companies.

“As Tehuti Networks makes progress on its product introduction and revenue plans, Blaine’s strong business acumen, broad industry contacts and deep background in the semiconductor industry enhance our market success and profitability,” said Arie Brish, CEO for Tehuti Networks. “Tehuti Networks is driving innovative solutions in the rapidly-growing TCP/IP network processing space and Blaine’s experience in networking and storage markets makes her an excellent addition to our team.”

Ms. Kohl was most recently the vice president of marketing at Bandspeed. Prior to that she served at Intel as director of marketing, where she led the market development and strategic investments for 10-Gigabit Ethernet and iSCSI platforms. L everaging her experience in the high-technology industry, Ms. Kohl’s focus will be to lead Tehuti Networks in launching its Network Traffic Accelerator (NTA) chips and expanding its customer base.

“Tehuti Networks has solved the Ethernet price/performance equation with an elegant TCP/IP acceleration solution that is optimal for this rapidly growing market,” said Blaine Kohl, newly appointed vice president of marketing for Tehuti Networks. “I am delighted to work with Tehuti’s exceptional team and the industry’s top server and network appliance vendors as we bring distinctive products to the market and ramp-up revenue for the company.”

Tehuti Networks has developed technology to accelerate TCP/IP processing in Gigabit Ethernet networks and is expanding the technology to 10-Gigabit Ethernet. Tehuti Networks’ NTA chips integrate seamlessly into server environments and network appliances, significantly boosting network performance with minimal impact on system cost, power and footprint.
 
About Tehuti Networks
Tehuti Networks is a fabless semiconductor company that develops innovative solutions-on-a-chip (SoC) for accelerating TCP/IP processing in servers and network appliances. The solutions improve server processing performance and provide significant cost benefits to original equipment manufacturers and IT users. The company received seed funding from Alice Lab, Technion R&D Fund, ProSeed Venture Capital Fund, and Lachman Goldman Ventures. Tehuti Networks has offices in Austin, Texas and Herzelia, Israel.

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Company Contact:

Arie Brish

Tehuti Networks

arie@tehutinetworks.com

Media Contact:

Judy Racino

Callidus Group

judy@calliduspr.com

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