Coverity Names Steven Machernis as Managing Director - EMEA
Former director of Motorola's embedded computing business in Europe brings 22 years of technology management experience to leading source code analysis company

SAN FRANCISCO, February 13, 2006 – Coverity, Inc., makers of the world’s most advanced and scalable source code analysis solution, today announced the appointment of Steven Machernis as Managing Director - Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In this role, Machernis will manage sales, support, services, partnerships, channel development and marketing in EMEA.

Prior to joining Coverity, Machernis held a number of international management and business development roles with the embedded computing business of Motorola Networks. Along with a number of positions throughout the U.S., Machernis held leadership roles in the UK and Germany where he drove Motorola’s European efforts to capitalize on high growth communications opportunities as Director, Telecommunications Segment Sales. After returning to the Boston area, he held the position of Director, North American Sales – Eastern Region.

"After seeing tremendous growth in our sales in Europe in 2005, we decided to invest more resources in the EMEA markets and are bringing Steve in to lead our activities in this exciting area," said Seth Hallem, CEO of Coverity. "Under Steve’s leadership, Coverity is committed to expanding our efforts in Europe and to providing our customers with a support network to augment our robust tool that enables them to develop best-in-class software.”

"Some of the most talented software developers in the world reside in the European region and I intend to help these teams bring secure and reliable software to market faster at lower costs," said Machernis. “I’m excited to take part in the growth of the software development market in Europe and to help developers integrate the world’s best software development processes into their product development cycles. Coverity stands alone as the premier static analysis engine to identify complex software defects and security flaws that can be painfully expensive to correct later in the development process or after customer release."

Coverity has a number of customers in the EMEA including AudioÇodes, American Power Conversion, Check Point Software, Ericsson, France Telecom, Marconi, Nokia, Nominet, and Symbian. Current EMEA resellers include Scientific Computers in the UK and Sodima in France.

About Coverity
Coverity (www.coverity.com), makers of the world's most advanced and scalable source code analysis solution for pinpointing software defects and security vulnerabilities, is a privately-held company headquartered in San Francisco. Coverity was founded in 2002 by leading Stanford University scientists whose four-year research project resulted in a breakthrough approach for addressing the costliest problem in the software industry. That research breakthrough allows developers to quickly and precisely eliminate software defects and security vulnerabilities in tens of millions of lines of new or legacy code. Today, Coverity's solution is used by more than 100 leading companies to significantly improve the quality of their software, including Juniper Networks, Symantec/VERITAS, McAfee, Synopsys, NASA, PalmOne, Sun Microsystems and Wind River.

Coverity is a registered trademark, and Coverity Extend and Coverity Prevent are trademarks of Coverity, Inc. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.

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