expressor software builds on company launch with next phase of growth

In preparation for rapid market and customer growth, data integration startup adds industry veterans to executive team and announces executive appointments

Burlington, MA – July 16, 2008 — expressor software corporation, the leader in semantic data integration software, announced today the addition of two industry veterans to its executive team. Frank Fallon joins expressor as vice president of sales and business development and Dr. Michael Waclawiczek as vice president of marketing and product management. In addition, Steve Frechette, formerly senior director of engineering at expressor, has been promoted to vice president of engineering. The three executives report to Bob Potter, expressor’s chief executive officer. The company made these appointments in preparation for the next phase of rapid growth after successfully launching its next generation semantic data integration systemtm into the market in May (see press release entitled "introducing expressor 1.0 – redefining data integration").

Frank Fallon is responsible for expressor's worldwide sales and business development efforts, including building a direct field and inside sales organization and establishing global alliances with complementary technology vendors, resellers, systems integrators and solution providers. With more than 20 years of sales and management experience, Frank joins expressor from BEA, where as Senior VP Americas he managed a team of 400 sales professionals and was directly responsible for all North and South American license business of $230MM. Prior to BEA, Frank held executive positions at enterprise software companies including SeeBeyond, Tivoli Systems and Sybase.

Dr. Michael Waclawiczek is responsible for driving expressor's overall marketing strategy including product management, field marketing, marketing communications, analyst and public relations, and brand management. As acting VP of Marketing since February 2008, Michael was responsible for the successful marketing launch of the company and product in May. In his 20+ years in high tech, he has launched more than a dozen software products that have generated more than $1B in revenues. Prior to joining expressor, Michael held senior marketing and product management executive positions at StreamBase Systems, Kalido, and IONA Technologies.

Steve Frechette is responsible for all aspects of product development and delivery at expressor software. Within the first year, Steve established expressor’s engineering organization and delivered the first release of the expressor semantic data integration system in mid July. With more than 18 years of engineering management, technical architecture and software development experience, he brings a depth in software and technology from his senior roles at Blue Agave, Oberon and IBM Lotus.

According to CEO Bob Potter, "We have just brought to market our semantic data integration system, which takes data integration to a whole new level of ease of use and performance and introduces a highly affordable channel-based pricing model. We are very excited about the reception thus far from our early adopters and prospective customers, as well as industry analysts we’ve briefed over the past three months. The addition of these three key executives, all of whom have long-standing track records of customer and market success, will enable us to capitalize upon our tremendous opportunity and redefine the competitive landscape in data integration."

"Frank's leadership and expertise will be crucial in rapidly establishing our channel and partner strategies as we develop a global presence in 2009. Steve continues to be instrumental in our efforts to rapidly broaden and further enhance our product suite in the coming releases. Additionally, I have worked with Michael at several previous companies and am very confident in his ability to establish a strong market presence for us and drive the overall product strategy for the company."

For more information on these executive appointments, visit www.expressor-software.com/about-us-leadership.htm.

about expressor software

expressor software tackles the complexity and cost of enterprise IT projects with data integration software that delivers breakthrough development productivity and data processing performance at a significant price/performance advantage. expressor’s patent-pending semantic data integration system has been designed from the ground up — based on common business terms — that enable collaborative, role-based team development, business rule reuse and end-to-end project lifecycle management.

expressor was founded in 2003 by experienced data integration and data warehousing practitioners and executives. The company is headquartered in Burlington, MA and is funded by Globespan Capital Partners and Sigma Partners. For more information visit www.expressor-software.com.

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