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Rick D. Spurr joined ZixCorp in January 2004 as President and Chief Operating Officer. In March 2005 he was promoted to his current position as Chief Executive Officer and in February 2006 was voted Chairman of the Board. Mr. Spurr brings 30 years of global IT experience in building sales marketing and operations departments in corporate fast-growing environments. Prior to joining ZixCorp he served as Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales Marketing & Business Development for Securify Inc. From 1974 to 1990 Mr. Spurr worked for IBM where as Regional Manager he was responsible for more than 1 000 employees and as Tokyo Group Director for a $1.2 billion USD business throughout the Asia Pacific Region. Mr. Spurr then assisted in taking two start-ups SEER Technologies Inc. and Entrust Inc. through successful IPOs. Under his leadership both companies increased revenue more than eight-fold in three years with Entrust Inc.'s revenue topping $148 million a year. | 