WorkProducts Announces the Addition of Shawn Owens as Vice President of Technology

Reston, Va. – WorkProducts has added Shawn Owens as VP of Technology. Shawn has more than 20 years of email, eDiscovery, archive, security, and legal compliance domain technology expertise which he has applied both as a corporate executive and as a consultant, working closely with Fortune 500 enterprise, ISP, and University customers in management roles related to both pre and post sales roles. In recent years, Shawn has contributed to three Silicon Valley startups — Mirapoint, PostPath, ZL Technologies — to build successful technical field operations, develop industry leading products, establish repeatable technical processes, and architect & deploy solutions to meet the most complex requirements from some of the most demanding customers in the world. Shawn's most recent experience was with ZL Technologies, formerly ZipLip, where he most notably helped architect, train, and deploy a Fortune 100 Global Bank email retention/compliance project.

Prior to ZL, Shawn was Technical Operations Manager for PostPath responsibilities included building out the technical team, documentation, training, establish operational guidelines, etc. Shawn is credited with the company's first sale, City of Steamboat Springs Colorado, acting as both RSM and SE. In this role, Shawn worked primarily with Fortune 1000 enterprises, most notably AIG, Wachovia, Merrill Lynch, etc. Prior to PostPath, Shawn architected and deployed solutions at Mirapoint Inc. for companies such as Google and Cisco, as well as universities such as Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and San Diego State University.

"WorkProducts couldn't be more pleased with the addition of Shawn to our team. We set perhaps our highest standard for a candidate that displayed deep domain enterprise archive/storage/content management expertise when identifying candidates for this position", said Steve Lilley, Founder & CEO of WorkProducts. "Shawn has achieved high levels of success in both market facing and technical engineering roles, allowing him to bring both disciplines to WorkProducts at a time of unprecedented growth for our technology, our company, and our Evidence Lifecycle Management ecosystem partner network."

"The opportunity I see at WorkProducts with respect to the MatterSpace product is more exciting than any of my previous situations. The pain in the market place is abundant, albeit somewhat uncharacterized, thus there isn’t much attention being given to Evidence Lifecycle Management. I believe that will change as customers become informed and the technical media latches on to this market pain. MatterSpace provides a unique solution that eases customer anxiety quickly by realizing their needs both technically and financially; WorkProducts can deploy a MatterSpace solution within days and without huge monetary commitment. I'm not a fan of the phrase but it's apropos, it's win-win."

Shawn studied Computer Science at Sierra College and the University of California, Berkeley. He has a wife and two children and enjoys playing team sports and participates in organized basketball and hockey leagues.