Visionary Early-Stage Investor Paul Dali Joins Kaazing Board Of Directors

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaazing, the leading innovator in HTML5 WebSocket technology, today announced that KeyNote Ventures Founder and Managing Principal Paul Dali has joined its board of directors.  An investor in early-stage technology companies and active board member for several prominent, public enterprise technology companies, Dali will play a key role in helping Kaazing meet accelerating market demand for HTML5 WebSocket technology.  

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Dali's addition comes on the heels of several successful months for Kaazing, which has seen rapid growth in the financial services, gaming and telecommunications sectors.  Dali has a long track record of helping disruptive enterprise technology companies successfully manage the challenge of meeting explosive customer demand while laying a strong operational foundation to expand into new markets.  

"Paul is well known for his ability to help rapid-growth technology companies successfully enter new markets and immediately begin to grow demand for their products," said Jonas Jacobi, CEO, Kaazing.  "This ability is largely due to his experience and the perspective it provides.  Paul's track record in a number of different tech industry roles – product innovation, management development and marketing – has helped him develop an instinctual capacity for helping young tech companies meet their growth goals."

Prior to founding KeyNote Ventures, Paul spent several years as President and CEO of Regis McKenna, the largest high-tech marketing and communications company in the U.S.  Before Regis McKenna, Paul served as General Manager of the PC Division of Apple Computer as well as Chairman of its Marketing Council.

"With WebSocket technology poised to become the Web's de-facto communications protocol, Kaazing is uniquely positioned as the industry's innovation center for delivering real-time, massively scalable applications over the Web," said Dali. "Kaazing has the right management team and engineering talent to meet this challenge, and I look forward to working with the team to help the company achieve its next phase of growth objectives."

About Kaazing

Kaazing gives companies the power to quickly deploy distributed, dynamic and massively scalable HTML5 Web applications.  Enabling full-duplex, real-time Web communication based on the HTML5 WebSocket standard, Kaazing WebSocket Gateway allows seamless and reliable extension of any TCP-based messaging protocols to the Web, dramatically reducing backend infrastructure and operational costs.  Founded in 2007 and based in Mountain View, CA, Kaazing is also the leading provider of worldwide training in HTML5 and WebSocket development.

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