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AeroScout, Inc., the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility solutions, recently announced that former Redback Networks CFO Tom Cronan, III has joined AeroScout as its chief financial officer.

Cronan brings more than twenty years of management experience at publicly traded and privately held technology companies. From 2001 to 2007, he served as the senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer at Redback Networks Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company. Among his contributions at Redback, Cronan led the company through a period of sustained revenue growth and, ultimately, the sale of Redback in 2007 to Ericsson for $2.1 billion.

Cronan has also served as CFO at ooma, Inc., led the finance department at enCommerce, Inc., and was the in-house legal counsel for such companies as IBM and OpenTV. He was also Special Counsel in the Technology Licensing group at the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Cronan holds a J.D. from Fordham Law School and a B.S. from Muhlenberg College.

"Tom is an excellent addition to the AeroScout management team and brings a wealth of experience leading finance for high-growth technology companies," said AeroScout CEO Yuval Bar-Gil. "We continue to experience strong and increasing demand for our solutions as companies worldwide turn to AeroScout to solve their critical business needs. Tom's background and expertise are the perfect fit for us, and I'm confident that he'll contribute significantly to AeroScout's success."

Organizations around the world use AeroScout's Unified Asset Visibility (UAV) solutions to accurately locate and monitor assets and people over standard Wi-Fi networks to improve business processes. With the introduction of the industry's first Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tag in 2003, AeroScout pioneered the Wi-Fi visibility market. Today, the company has strategic partnerships with technology industry leaders such as AT&T, Cisco, and IBM, and its global customer base includes Fortune 500 companies as well as leading hospital, manufacturing and logistics organizations, including Boeing, Freescale Semiconductor, City Link, and Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center.

"AeroScout is an innovative and thriving company whose success is directly attributable to the fact that its solutions deliver clear returns to its clients," said Cronan. "I look forward to helping the company achieve its business and financial goals as AeroScout continues to lead the UAV market."

About AeroScout
AeroScout is the market leader in Unified Asset Visibility solutions. The company's products accurately locate and monitor assets and people over standard Wi-Fi networks to improve and automate business processes. AeroScout's global customer base includes many of the Fortune 500 and the world's leading hospitals. Founded in 2000, AeroScout pioneered the Wi-Fi visibility market by introducing the industry's first Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tag, and is widely recognized as leading the market in number of tags shipped. AeroScout is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with offices in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Australia. For more information, please visit www.aeroscout.com.

SOURCE: AeroScout