PalamidaTM, a provider of software intellectual property (IP) management and compliance products and services, today announced the appointment of Bennett Barouch to vice president of engineering. With more than 25 years of extensive high-tech industry experience, Barouch will oversee product design, architecture, development and delivery.

"Bennett is an exceptional addition to the executive team at Palamida," said Palamida CEO Mark Tolliver. "He has an innovative and unique vision which, backed by his extensive record of product development and delivery, make him an incredible asset to our leadership team. I am confident that with Bennett's direction, our products will continue to lead the charge in IP management and governance."

"The success that Palamida has already achieved through the company's core detection and database technology, coupled with the confidence from its customer base, were key in my decision to join," said Barouch. "I am eager to work at a company who understands and is solving some of the complex business and development problems in bringing innovative products to market."

Previously, Barouch was vice president of engineering at iPass, Inc., where he successfully directed a staff of more than 100 to excellence in product development. Before that Barouch served as vice president of engineering at Comergent Technologies, Inc., where he led development of the company’s Distributed E-Business System, advancing the company to a Gartner-recognized market visionary. Prior to Comergent, Barouch was vice president of engineering at General Magic, Inc., where under his leadership its products were honored as part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution for Outstanding Achievement in Information Technology in 2000. Barouch is a patent holder in the area of IC design automation.

About Palamida

Palamida answers the question "What's in your code?" by providing an unprecedented level of software transparency. By empowering customers with insightful information about their software assets, Palamida products and services offer accurate evaluations of software during acquisitions, on-going testing against intellectual property policy during application development and governance of software environments. Palamida’s customers include Avaya, Cisco Systems, EMC, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, among others. Founded in 2003, Palamida's investors include Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners, WaldenVC and Stanford University. Read Palamida's blog at palamida.com/blog or for more information visit palamida.com . Palamida is a trademark of Palamida, Inc.