BridgeGate LLC continues executive hiring streak for long-time client Opsware

Friday, September 01, 2006 -

BridgeGate LLC, California’s oldest and most respected executive search firm is pleased to announce the completion of the executive search it conducted that led to the appointment of Kevin McGuirk as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications at Opsware, Inc, (NASDAQ, OPSW).

Mr. McGuirk joins Opsware from Fleishman-Hillard where Kevin was SVP & Co-Chair, Global Technology Partners. Prior to Fleishman-Hillard, Kevin spent three years with BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS) in the role of Vice President of Corporate Communications. From 1996 through 2001, Kevin was Vice President, Press and Analyst Relations at Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL). BridgeGate partner, John DiSanto and his team collaboratively led the search for Opsware

About Opsware. Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW) is the world’s leading Data Center Automation software company. The growth of the Internet is driving a shift from client/server computing to Web architecture. With this shift comes an overwhelming proliferation of servers, network devices and applications, creating massive complexity that makes an automated IT model a necessity. The Opsware System automates the complete IT lifecycle and delivers utility computing by enabling IT to automatically provision, patch, configure, secure, change, scale, audit, recover, consolidate, migrate, and reallocate servers, network devices and applications. Over 350 of the world’s largest companies, outsourcers and government agencies use Opsware to deliver this new, automated model of IT. For more information on Opsware Inc., please visit our web site at www.opsware.com.