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Mr. Paul Auvil has served as CFO of Proofpoint since March 2006. Before Proofpoint, Mr. Auvil was an entrepreneur-in-residence for six months with Benchmark Capital. For four years prior to Benchmark, Mr. Auvil was CFO of virtualization leader VMware, where he played an important role in helping the company evolve from a promising start-up to one of the fastest growing companies in the history of the software industry. Prior to joining VMware, Mr Auvil served four years as CFO at Vitria Technology. Earlier in his career, he spent ten years at VLSI Technology, ultimately becoming vice president and general manager of the $120 million Internet and Secure Products Division. Mr. Auvil holds three patents in digital video compression in Japan, and one patent in the U.S. for a variable-width, PCI-compatible on-chip serial data bus. | 