Tumbleweed Communications Appoints Bill Pollak Senior Vice President, Sales

Long-time PeopleSoft executive to lead world-class sales organization

REDWOOD CITY, CA - November 12, 2001 - Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:TMWD),a leading provider of secure content management solutions for enabling the business Internet, today announced the appointment of William E. Pollak as Senior Vice President, Sales.

"We are pleased to have attracted sales management talent of Bill's caliber to our executive team," said Doug Sabella, President and COO of Tumbleweed. "Bill's addition is another important step in our 2001 plan to position Tumbleweed with a strong, experienced management team that will allow us to achieve revenue growth and drive the company to profitability. Bill has extensive experience at taking early-stage sales organizations and scaling them for success at the enterprise level and he truly understands what it takes to productively manage the kind of world-class sales organization we have built at Tumbleweed."

"I'm looking forward to taking Tumbleweed's sales organization to the next growth level and am confident that we can achieve our goals," said Pollak, a seasoned sales professional with over 19 years of experience. "The secure content management market has huge potential as eventually all key Internet-based communications will be secure. My goal is to make sure every organization follows the lead of the more than 1,000 companies who have already deployed Tumbleweed solutions."

Pollak brings to Tumbleweed a distinguished track record of successful sales management in the enterprise software sector. He has rapidly built highly productive sales organizations that have brought emerging technologies to the marketplace and has received numerous awards for individual sales performance and for sales leadership. His career includes experience in both early-stage and established field organizations, including a ten-year stint at PeopleSoft from 1989 to 1999.

While at PeopleSoft, Pollak - who was one of the first two sales executives hired in the company - held numerous senior sales management assignments and exceeded his annual revenue objectives during every year he was with the company. He was the Vice President and General Manager of the Service Industries Business Unit. Under his leadership, Pollak's business unit established itself as the dominant provider of ERP applications to service sector enterprises and was consistently among the top performing business units in the company growing from $20 million to $150 million in under three years.

Prior to assuming responsibility for the Service Industries Business Unit, Pollak was the Vice President of Western Region HRMS Sales. His sales organization consistently ranked among the top performing sales units in the company, acquired many of PeopleSoft's most strategic accounts in the Western U.S., and successfully drove sales of some of the largest enterprise software licenses in the company.

Pollak's management experience also includes a tenure as Vice President of Sales and Field Operations at AristaSoft Corporation, which established itself as the leading Application Service Provider (ASP) for High Tech Manufacturing enterprises. Pollak joined AristaSoft as a founding member of its senior management team and drove revenues from zero to $16 million in less than two years. During this time, Pollak built a 40-person organization consisting of sales, pre-sales, account management and professional services.

In addition to his experience at PeopleSoft and AristaSoft, Pollak has also led sales organizations in other enterprise software companies, including Radford Associates/ Alexander & Alexander, and at Personify Inc. He earned at Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Davis.

About Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed is a leading provider of solutions for managing secure communication and collaboration to enable the business Internet. Tumbleweed's robust policy-based framework empowers organizations to safely share and protect critical information, increase customer loyalty and privacy and dramatically reduce costs.

Tumbleweed is trusted by 1,000 blue-chip customers including American Express, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Chevron, Datek Online, the European Union's Joint Research Council, US Food and Drug Administration, John Deere, Merrill Lynch, Nike, Northern Trust, NTT, Salomon Smith Barney, Travelers, United Parcel Service, and seven of the world's largest postal services. Tumbleweed Communications was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA with offices around the world.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, particularly with respect to the security features of Tumbleweed's products and the activities of any third party. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "continue," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," and similar expressions. For further cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed's Form 10-K filed March 30, 2001 and Form 10-Q filed November 13, 2001. Tumbleweed assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release.