YouSendIt Names Au Chief Technology Officer

YouSendIt Inc., a provider of enterprise collaboration services, has named Stanford Au to the position of chief technology officer. Au was previously chief technology officer for Skinit Inc., and earlier in his career worked as senior vice president of technology for Shutterfly and vice president of products for WebEx. YouSendIt is backed by Adams Street Partners, Alloy Ventures, Emergence Capital Partners, Sevin Rosen Funds and Sigma Partners.

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YouSendIt, Inc., the leading provider of extended enterprise collaboration services, today announced the appointment of Stanford Au to the position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Au will be responsible for the company’s technology strategy, engineering and quality assurance operations as well as product research and development. Au will also oversee YouSendIt’s IT and data center operations, which processes hundreds of millions of documents every year.

“Stanford is the ideal person to lead the engineering charge following the launch of our Workstream by YouSendIt(TM) product line for enterprises earlier this month,” said Ivan Koon, chief executive officer, YouSendIt. “Stanford brings a strong track record of customer- and technology-driven innovation that prepares us to meet future customer requirements and deliver solutions that make it even easier to collaborate across companies.”

Au has an extensive background spanning more than 25 years at technology companies. Au was previously chief technology officer for Skinit, Inc., where he developed the company’s business and technology strategy for the personalization market for consumers and enterprises. Prior to Skinit, he served as senior vice president of technology for Shutterfly and vice president of products for WebEx. Au has also held executive positions at Virage, AOL, Apple, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

“Enterprises choose Workstream because it’s operationally obvious for anyone to use while meeting IT’s mandate for security,” commented Au. “I look forward to capitalizing on this advantage by delivering new ways to make it easier for enterprises to collaborate and conduct business online.”

About YouSendIt YouSendIt, Inc. is the leading provider of extended enterprise collaboration services, with millions of registered users in 193 countries across 98 percent of the Fortune 500. The company’s online services span from simple file sharing to a comprehensive content collaboration suite of services that allow users across an entire organization to securely share content, sign documents, and access files from any mobile device or PC. Workstream by YouSendIt(TM), the company’s flagship enterprise content collaboration offering, allows professionals to collaborate on content with users both inside and outside their organization while providing IT with centralized security policy and administrative controls to manage the flow of work across the entire extended enterprise. Headquartered in Campbell, CA, YouSendIt is a privately held company backed by venture capital firms Adams Street Partners, Alloy Ventures, Emergence Capital Partners, Sevin Rosen Funds and Sigma