Avira, the producer of AntiVir names a new head of sales

Rainer Witzgall new Executive Vice President

Tettnang, 21 March 2006 - The security specialist Avira builds up the team in order to spur on his way to expansion. From this very moment, Rainer Witzgall (42) is the new Executive Vice President. In this position he is responsible for the national and international sales of the Avira security solutions for both business and private users. Therefore, Rainer Witzgall reports directly to Mr. Tjark Auerbach, the CEO of Avira.

The new head of sales intends to continue the success story of the former H+BEDV under its new name: Avira. Consequently, and in order to bring the company to new growth, Rainer Witzgall mainly wants to establish international sales and OEM partnerships. Furthermore, the existing contacts will be intensified and the customer retention will certainly be increased through a smooth migration from  direct to indirect sales.

“Rainer Witzgall has almost  two decades of experience in the international market and is very well acquainted with the IT line”, explains Tjark Auerbach CEO of Avira. “A man with such a background perfectly matches our expansion course. Moreover, our target markets will soon take advantage of the synergy effects from the business and private customers.

Before taking up this position, Rainer Witzgall held several leading sales posts at renowned companies such as Rational Software (IBM today), Mercury and think3.


About Avira

Avira (formerly H+BEDV) is one of the pioneers in the IT security area. The security specialist has been developing as from 1988 cross-system security solutions for business and private customers under the brand name AntiVir. Some of these customers are leading national and international companies, various educational institutions as well as public entities.

The product portfolio comprises high-performance security solutions for workstations, file servers, web servers and mail servers as well as for PDAs and smartphones. The company doesn’t only have a wide range of products in the Windows environment; it is also one of the technology leaders in the UNIX market. Moreover, the company introduced the first SAP certified security solution for SAP NetWeaver in 2005 on the market.

The Avira AntiVir scanner is awarded the VB 100% on a regular basis and is proud to have a current TÜV Certificate (Technical Inspection Authority). The high competence of the company in the IT security area is also documented through the close collaboration with the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

The Avira security solutions can be obtained from the numerous Avira resellers, who represent and distribute the products all over Europe and abroad.

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