Coverity™ Appoints Bertrand Yansouni Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations

Former Riverbed Technology and VMware Executive Joins Coverity to Accelerate Success of Global Sales and Channels Growth

San Francisco – November 25, 2008 – Coverity, Inc., the leader in improving software quality and security automatically, today announced Bertrand Yansouni has joined Coverity as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, overseeing Coverity’s global sales team and its service and support personnel.

”We are extremely pleased to have Bertrand join our team and lead our next stage of growth worldwide, said Seth Hallem, Coverity CEO and co-founder. “Bertrand’s deep experience in rapid-growth companies will help us execute new market opportunities, lead our global expansion plans, and drive success for our growing base of 500 plus customers.”

Prior to joining Coverity, Yansouni served as Vice President of Channels for Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD), a leading company in the WAN acceleration space that had one of the must successful IPOs of 2006. Prior to Riverbed, Mr. Yansouni was part of VMware’s North America sales leadership team that helped the company grow company revenue from $30 million to $350 million during his tenure. Mr. Yansouni has also held sales management positions at Portera, Informix, and IBM Corporation.

“Coverity has a tremendous opportunity to extend its leadership in software integrity and fundamentally improve the way companies ensure the quality, security and integrity of the software that runs their business,” said Yansouni. “I look forward to cultivating Coverity’s world-class field organization so we continue to deliver exceptional value to our worldwide customer base.

For additional information on Coverity and the company’s leadership team, please visit: http://www.coverity.com

About Coverity
Coverity (www.coverity.com), the leader in improving software quality and security, is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco. Coverity’s groundbreaking technology enables developers to control complexity in the development process by automatically finding and helping to repair critical software defects and security vulnerabilities throughout the application lifecycle. More than 500 leading companies including ARM, Phillips, RIM, Rockwell Collins, Samsung and UBS rely on Coverity to help them ensure the delivery of superior software.

Coverity 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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