Knocking Out Kinks

Secure Remote Access

Aventail / 808 Howell St., Seattle, Wa 98101 / (206) 215-1111 / Www.Aventail.Com

TICKER: Privately held

EMPLOYEES: 215

Evan Kaplan

President & CEO

Co-founded Aventail in 1996. Previously, he was director of business development and product line manager at WRQ, a mainframe-access software company that merged with Attachmate in 2005.

Chris Hopen

CTO

Before starting the company with Kaplan, he was director of network technology for CompuServe's Internet unit and once worked for Boeing.

PRODUCTS

EX-750 appliance provides SSL-encrypted access to files and applications …