Parasoft Extends Europe Presence by Opening Netherlands Office

MONROVIA, CA – Parasoft Corporation, the leading provider of automated error prevention solutions, announced today the opening of business operations in the Netherlands to support the growing European market demand for improved software reliability, security and performance.

“Organizations are seeking better and improved ways to boost the quality of their software and reduce the time and effort required to deliver secure applications,” said John Rodford, director of Parasoft UK. “Parasoft’s expansion into the Netherlands provides our growing client base with the local expertise and service to best support their adoption of our solutions and achieve their software quality goals.”

Parasoft Netherlands will provide sales, training and implementation support of Parasoft Automated Error Prevention software solutions to the Dutch marketplace. As a leading provider of software solutions that provide companies with the means to prevent software errors and security vulnerabilities in their Web, Web services (SOAs), and C/C++, Java, .NET applications, Parasoft local operations in the Netherlands will focus on helping customers to best leverage Parasoft’s technologies and best practices in their software development efforts to improve their development processes and ensure the quality and predictability of their software projects.

Heading up the Netherlands office are Dirk Giesen and Jaap Mulder both technology veterans. Mr. Giesen brings over 15 years of experience in the sale of software development lifecycle tools and services to the Netherlands marketplace. He most recently held the position of Sales Manager for Telelogic Netherlands
served as Global Account Manager overseeing Philips Electronics. Prior to that Mr. Giesen was VP of Sales at QA Systems, a distributor of software development lifecycle products and services. Mr. Mulder joins Parasoft after 15 years in the software development industry developing and supporting clients as a consultant. Mulder also worked with QA Systems for 8 years as technical director of services. He and his staff worked with clients to improve their software development processes and successfully implement automated software development lifecycle tools.

The new office is located at:

Parasoft Netherlands
Stevinweg 2
3891 EA Zeewolde
The Netherlands
Office: + 31 612 533201
Email: netherlands@parasoft.com

About Parasoft
Parasoft is the leading provider of innovative solutions for automated software test and analysis and the establishment of software error prevention practices as an integrated part of the software development lifecycle. Parasoft’s product suite enables software development and IT organizations to significantly reduce costs and delivery delays, ensure application reliability and security and improve the quality of the software they develop and deploy through the practice of Automated Error Prevention (AEP). Parasoft has more than 10,000 clients worldwide including: Bank of America, Boeing, Cisco, Disney, Ericsson, IBM, Lehman Brothers, Lockheed, Philips Electronics, AXA, Sony and Yahoo. Founded in 1987, Parasoft is a privately held company headquartered in Monrovia, CA. For more information visit: http://www.parasoft.com.