hopTo Announces Expansion of its Executive Team with the Addition of Vice President of Product, Robin Brandl

CAMPBELL, Calif., Dec. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- hopTo Inc. (OTCQB: HPTO), developer of the most comprehensive mobile productivity platform, announces today that Robin Brandl has joined hopTo's leadership team as its Vice President of Product. 

Robin joins hopTo from Microsoft, where he was most recently responsible for helping launch and drive sales for Microsoft's Enterprise Mobility Suite with Microsoft's EPG customers in the Americas.  During his 5 year tenure with Microsoft, Robin has been successful as their enterprise client and desktop virtualization sales lead and was responsible for driving mobility, BYOD, and desktop virtualization business in North America working with Microsoft's customers across verticals and sizes.  Additionally, he achieved great success in his responsibilities that ranged from understanding global enterprise architecture, embracing the client's technology profile, and advancing the client's IT operational maturity.  Robin is known for understanding and evangelizing customer requirements while driving proper solutions to overcome their challenges and achieve their goals.

He also held roles as Microsoft's senior sales strategy manager for desktop virtualization and as an account technology strategist.  

"Robin brings tremendous value to hopTo both as a well renowned technologist and a highly skilled and knowledgeable professional within the enterprise mobility space, with unique experience as both a customer and vendor to enterprises," said hopTo's President and CEO, Eldad Eilam.  "We have no doubt that Robin will help us evolve our products and ensure that our mobility strategy remains solidly anchored in market requirements."

Prior to Microsoft, Robin worked at Citrix where he began to apply his experience as a customer with his innate ability to take complex technologies and make them understandable and applicable to business.  It was at Citrix, where Robin made the jump from Senior Sales Engineer to Global Microsoft Evangelist. While working on Citrix's Microsoft Relationship team Robin traveled the globe meeting with joint Microsoft and Citrix customers and partners.

"Over the last few years I have seen the growing need for a product such as hopTo Work to address the enterprise mobility market," stated Robin.  "I believe hopTo Work has enormous potential to fill that need and I am excited to be joining the team at hopTo and about the opportunity to help revolutionize how the enterprise community tackles and embraces the mobility trend."

Robin joined hopTo's senior leadership team beginning December 1, 2014.

About hopTo:

Founded in its current form in 2012, hopTo Inc. is an innovator of a unique mobile productivity workspace platform.  The hopTo mobile solution delivers an unparalleled user experience without compromising enterprise security.  hopTo brings a new standard of mobile productivity by enabling individuals to Search, Access, Create, Edit and Share content from their mobile devices, efficiently and effectively, by leveraging any combination of  on-premise or cloud stored content, documents and data as well as enterprise applications.  The company is based in Campbell, CA. For more information on hopTo, please visit: www.hopTo.com, www.facebook.com/hopTo or download the hopTo IRapp from the hopTo investor page.

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains statements that are forward looking as that term is defined by the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include statements regarding future growth and the expected impact of our products on the marketplace. These statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to a number of uncertainties and risks that could cause actual results to differ significantly from those described in the forward looking statements. Factors that may cause such a difference include the following: the success of our new products depends on a number of factors including market acceptance and our ability to manage the risks associated with new product introduction and developing and marketing new versions of the product; and other factors, including those set forth under Item 1A, "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2013, and in other documents we have filed with the SEC.

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