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CHECK
POINT CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER EYAL DESHEH TO JOIN TEVA
PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES BY
MID-2008
TEL AVIV, Israel October
30, 2007
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), the
worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that Eyal Desheh will leave the
company by mid-2008 after eight years as Check Points chief financial officer. Mr.
Desheh has accepted the position of chief financial officer of Teva Pharmaceutical
Industries Ltd., one of the worlds leading generic pharmaceutical companies and
Israels largest company.
Mr.
Desheh is expected to remain at Check Point until the second quarter of 2008 in
order to facilitate a smooth and orderly transition.
Since
Eyal joined Check Point in May 2000, we have been fortunate to work together with our
great leadership team to grow Check Points annual sales by 169% from
approximately $250 million in revenues to approximately $700 million over the past four
quarters. We also saw our GAAP earnings per share grow by 172% and non-GAAP earning per
share by 249% during the same period, said Gil Shwed, chairman and chief executive
officer of Check Point Software. We think highly of Eyals professional
capabilities and leadership, and regret to see him leave the Check Point family. We
sincerely wish him the best of luck and great success in his new role.
About Check Point
Software Technologies Ltd.
Check Point Software Technologies
Ltd. (
www.checkpoint.com
) is a leader in securing the Internet. The company is a
market leader in the worldwide enterprise firewall, personal firewall, data security and
VPN markets. Check Points PURE focus is on IT security with its extensive portfolio
of network security, data security and security management solutions. Through its NGX
platform, Check Point delivers a unified security architecture for a broad range of
security solutions to protect business communications and resources for corporate networks
and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. The company also
offers market leading data security solutions through the Pointsec product line,
protecting and encrypting sensitive corporate information stored on PCs and other mobile
computing devices. Check Points award-winning ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite and
additional consumer security solutions protect millions of consumer PCs from hackers,
spyware and data theft. Extending the power of the Check Point solution is its Open
Platform for Security (OPSEC), the industrys framework and alliance for integration
and interoperability with best-of-breed solutions from hundreds of leading
companies. Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network of Check
Point partners around the world and its customers include 100 percent of Fortune 100
companies and tens of thousands of businesses and organizations of all sizes.
©20032007 Check Point
Software Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved. Check Point, AlertAdvisor, Application
Intelligence, Check Point Express, Check Point Express CI, the Check Point logo,
ClusterXL, Confidence Indexing, ConnectControl, Connectra, Connectra Accelerator Card,
Cooperative Enforcement, Cooperative Security Alliance, CoreXL, CoSa, DefenseNet, Dynamic
Shielding Architecture, Eventia, Eventia Analyzer, Eventia Reporter, Eventia Suite,
FireWall-1, FireWall-1 GX, FireWall-1 SecureServer, FloodGate-1, Hacker ID, Hybrid
Detection Engine, IMsecure, INSPECT, INSPECT XL, Integrity, Integrity Clientless Security,
Integrity SecureClient, InterSpect, IPS-1, IQ Engine, MailSafe, NG, NGX, Open Security
Extension, OPSEC, OSFirewall, Pointsec, Pointsec Mobile, Pointsec PC, Pointsec Protector,
Policy Lifecycle Management, Provider-1, PURE Security, the puresecurity logo, Safe@Home,
Safe@Office, SecureClient, SecureClient Mobile, SecureKnowledge, SecurePlatform,
SecurePlatform Pro, SecuRemote, SecureServer, SecureUpdate, SecureXL, SecureXL Turbocard,
Security Management Portal, Sentivist, SiteManager-1, SmartCenter, SmartCenter Express,
SmartCenter Power, SmartCenter Pro, SmartCenter UTM, SmartConsole, SmartDashboard,
SmartDefense, SmartDefense Advisor, Smarter Security, SmartLSM, SmartMap, SmartPortal,
SmartUpdate, SmartView, SmartView Monitor, SmartView Reporter, SmartView Status,
SmartViewTracker, SMP, SMP On-Demand, SofaWare, SSL Network Extender, Stateful Clustering,
TrueVector, Turbocard, UAM, UserAuthority, User-to-Address Mapping, UTM-1, UTM-1 Edge,
VPN-1, VPN-1 Accelerator Card, VPN-1 Edge, VPN-1 Express, VPN-1 Express CI, VPN-1 Power,
VPN-1 Power VSX, VPN-1 Pro, VPN-1 SecureClient, VPN-1 SecuRemote, VPN-1 SecureServer,
VPN-1 UTM, VPN-1 VSX, Web Intelligence, ZoneAlarm, ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware, ZoneAlarm
Antivirus, ZoneAlarm ForceField, ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite, ZoneAlarm Pro,
ZoneAlarm Secure Wireless Router, Zone Labs, and the Zone Labs logo are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. or its affiliates.
ZoneAlarm is a Check Point Software Technologies, Inc. Company. All other product names
mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The
products described in this document are protected by U.S. Patent No. 5,606,668, 5,835,726,
5,987,611, 6,496,935, 6,873,988, 6,850,943, and 7,165,076 and may be protected by other
U.S. Patents, foreign patents, or pending applications.
Signatures
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
By: /s/ Eyal Desheh
Eyal Desheh
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
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October 30, 2007
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