Bit9, Inc. announced the appointment of Ed Filippine as vice president of worldwide sales. Filippine, who has more than 15 years of sales leadership experience with IT hardware, software and services organizations, is responsible for Bit9's global sales and channel business. Prior to joining Bit9, Filippine was vice president of worldwide sales for HP Vertica.

Before that he served as general manager of the Americas for Acronis, responsible for leading the company's strategy and business across North and South America and overseeing sales, channels, marketing and pre-sales engineering functions for the region. Earlier in his career, Filippine was vice president of the Americas corporate sales division for EMC, where he managed sales, pre-sales engineering, operations and services for an organization of several hundred employees. He also held executive sales positions at WorldCom and American Network Exchange.