/EINPresswire.com/ -- SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - October 04, 2016) - Lynx Software Technologies, a world leader in the embedded software market, today named Will Keegan as Chief Technology Officer. Will was previously Technical Director, Software Security at Lynx with responsibility for leading the LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor product line.

Commenting, Gurjot Singh, CEO, Lynx said, "Will Keegan has played an exceptional role in the success of our software security product line. He brings to the CTO position a strong software engineering background together with deep experience in safety-critical and security-critical industries. His contribution as CTO will be immensely valuable to us as he will lead the technology direction for all of our products, LynxOS, LynxOS178 and LynxSecure. With his guidance, we will continue to provide leading technology for the aerospace and defense community, and capture emerging market opportunities such as securing connected vehicles and delivering a safe and secure Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)."

Will Keegan added, "Lynx has an incredibly strong technology offering and engineering team. We are ideally positioned to support the rapid growth and demand for assurance of safety and security in intelligent automotive, IIoT, and medical systems. I am excited to have the opportunity to contribute to its further development and success."

Will Keegan joined Lynx in 2011. Prior to this he was Product Engineer at Objective Interface Systems, Inc. for over four years, with responsibility for product engineering of real-time middleware and high assurance cryptographic network technologies.

About Lynx Software Technologies

Lynx Software Technologies, a world leader in the embedded software market, is committed to providing the highest levels of safety and security in its RTOS and virtualization products. Since it was established in 1988, Lynx Software Technologies has created technology that has been successfully deployed in thousands of designs and millions of products made by leading communications, avionics, aerospace/defense, and consumer electronics companies. The LynxSecure Separation Kernel Hypervisor is a virtualization technology designed to support embedded, real-time, safety critical, and security critical solutions. LynxOS® is a deterministic, hard real-time operating system used in millions of devices that provides POSIX-conformant APIs in a small-footprint embedded kernel. The LynxOS®-178 RTOS is the first and only time- and space-partitioned, FAA-accepted Reusable Software Component (RSC). Lynx headquarters are located in San Jose, CA. For more information, visit www.lynx.com.

Lynx Software Technologies is a trademark and LynxOS is a registered trademark of Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. Other brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective holders.

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Lynx Software Technologies Inc.
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