Webroot, the anti-spyware software firm, has hired a Computer Associates staffer as its first UK channel manager.

Step forward Rachel Taylor, who specialised in channel relationships during her seven years at CA, most recently as distribution account manager.

Taylor has ambitious goals for her new employer. Webroot already has a "well-established brand name and reputation as the leading anti-spyware vendor amongst end-users," she says.

"I intend to build on this to establish Webroot as the anti-spyware vendor of choice for the UK reseller community and to drive sales of Spy Sweeper Enterprise into the corporate and government sectors." ®

Webroot UK