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Illumio Honored by Goldman Sachs for Entrepreneurship

Andrew Rubin, CEO and co-founder, among 100 most intriguing entrepreneurs of 2016

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — October 25, 2016 Illumio today announced that Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has recognized Illumio CEO and Co-Founder Andrew Rubin as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs for the second year in a row. Goldman Sachs selected Rubin as one of 100 entrepreneurs in 2016 from multiple industries to be honored.

“We are honored to recognize Andrew Rubin as one of the most intriguing entrepreneurs of 2016,” said David Solomon, co-head of investment banking at Goldman Sachs. “This is the fifth year that we’ve hosted the Builders + Innovators Summit where emerging business leaders gather to discuss their common interests in building thriving organizations.”

“Illumio’s founding mission was to deliver security for our customers that works seamlessly across any of their computing environments,” said Rubin. “Being named by Goldman Sachs, for the second time, as one of the year’s 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs is a testament to the Illumio team and our collective efforts to solve the toughest data center and cloud security challenges for our customers.”

About Illumio

Illumio delivers adaptive security for every computing environment, protecting the 80 percent of data center and cloud traffic missed by the perimeter. The company’s Adaptive Security Platform™ visualizes application traffic and delivers continuous, scalable, and dynamic policy and enforcement to every bare-metal server, VM, container, and VDI within data centers and public clouds. Using Illumio, enterprises such as Morgan Stanley, Plantronics, Salesforce, King Entertainment, NetSuite, and Creative Artists Agency have achieved secure application and cloud migration, environmental segmentation, compliance, and high-value application protection from breaches and threats with no changes to applications or infrastructure. For more information, visit www.illumio.com or follow us @Illumio.

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