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Exhibit 99.1
Investor Relations:
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Acme Packet
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CHEN PR | |
Brian Norris
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Chris Carleton | |
+1 781.328.4790
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+1 781.672.3115 | |
bnorris@acmepacket.com
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Acme Packet Expands Board of Directors with Addition of Dr. Russell Muirhead
BEDFORD, MA. January 27, 2011 Acme Packet ® (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session
border control solutions, today announced that Dr. Russell Muirhead has been appointed to the
Companys Board of Directors effective immediately.
We are delighted to have Russ join the Board of Directors, said Mr. Andrew D. Ory, President and
Chief Executive Officer of Acme Packet, Inc. He has nearly 25 years of experience in the
academic fields of government, modern leadership and public ethics. His insights on global
politics and public policy will be invaluable as we expand the reach for our solutions within
federal, state, and local government. We look forward to Russs contributions and counsel as we as
we prepare for the next stage of the Companys growth.
Dr. Muirhead holds an endowed professorship at Dartmouth College, where he has taught courses on
ethics, the history of political thought, and American politics since 2009. Dr. Muirhead was an
Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin from 2006
through 2009. From 2002 through 2006, Dr. Muirhead was an Associate Professor at Harvard
University in the Department of Government. He began his academic career in 1996 as an Assistant
Professor at Williams College. Dr. Muirhead holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and additional
degrees from Harvard University and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Dr. Muirhead will serve as an independent director of the Company within the meaning of the
Marketplace Rules of the NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC. The Company has notified NASDAQ
that as a result of Dr. Muirheads appointment to the Board of Directors, a majority of the Board
is again comprised of independent directors as required by Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4350(c)(1). Dr.
Muirhead was also appointed to serve on the Companys Compensation Committee and Nominating and
Corporate Governance Committee.
About Acme Packet
Acme Packet (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, enables the delivery of
trusted, first-class interactive communicationsvoice, video and multimedia sessionsand data
services across IP network borders. Our Net-Net family of session border controllers, multiservice
security gateways and session routing proxies supports multiple applications in service provider,
enterprise and contact center networksfrom VoIP trunking to hosted enterprise and residential
services to fixed-mobile convergence. They satisfy critical security, service assurance and
regulatory requirements in wireline, cable and wireless networks; and support multiple
protocolsSIP, H.323, MGCP/NCS, H.248 and RTSPand multiple border pointsservice provider
access and interconnect, and enterprise access and trunking. Over 10,000 Acme Packet systems have
been deployed by more than 1,180 customers in 105 countries. They include 92 of the top 100 service
providers in the world and 11 of the Fortune 25. For more information, contact us at +1
781.328.4400, or visit www.acmepacket.com.
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