Kitware Reorganizes, Welcomes New Shareholders

CLIFTON PARK, NY (03/17/2009)(readMedia)--

As a result of ongoing growth, Kitware is reorganizing Company operations and has formally added new shareholders. The Company will now be organized into the following levels of responsibility: Corporate Leadership, Management, Technical Leadership, Research Staff, Support Staff, and Interns as shown on the Kitware Team page. These changes are effective immediately.

The Technical Leadership level has expanded to recognize the growing responsibilities, leadership qualities and technical excellence of several individuals. Utkarsh Ayachit, Brad Davis, Julien Jomier, Amitha Perera and Wes Turner join Luis Ibáñez as Technical Leaders. In addition, Stephen Aylward, Berk Geveci and Anthony Hoogs form Kitware's new Management level, overseeing the Medical Imaging, Scientific Computing and Computer Vision groups, respectively. Kitware would also like to welcome four new shareholders: Rick Avila, Stephen Aylward, Berk Geveci and Anthony Hoogs. These four individuals join the original founders to provide overall management for the Company.

As Kitware continues to grow future changes to the corporate structure, and further additions to these levels of responsibility are anticipated. Kitware would like to offer congratulations to the affected individuals.

About Kitware

Kitware, Inc. (http://www.kitware.com) is a leader in the creation and support of open-source software and state of art technology across five business areas: visualization, computer vision, medical imaging, data publishing and quality software process. By employing open source business and development models the company fosters extended, collaborative communities and provides flexible, low-cost technical solutions to medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, government researchers, the oil & gas industry, computer aided design & manufacturing, aerospace, engineering, and educational institutions worldwide.

Founded in 1998, Kitware has grown to include customers in over 43 countries and in 41 of the 50 US states. Kitware's team is widely recognized for their major contributions to a variety of open source software systems including the cross-platform build system CMake, the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK), and the Parallel Visualization System (ParaView).