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CORDA Technologies Names Thomas E. O'Dea as Chief Revenue Officer

Lindon, Utah-January 24, 2005-CORDA Technologies, Inc. the leading provider of innovative data presentation solutions, today announced that Tom O'Dea has been named Chief Revenue Officer. He is responsible for managing sales, marketing, and alliance programs as well as advising the CEO in relation to corporate direction and business strategy.

"Tom combines a deep understanding of effective channel programs and system integrator alliances with a diverse background that will help open new opportunities for the company," said Neal Williams, president and CEO of Corda Technologies. "While the development of an aggressive product line of new solutions is our priority, focusing on initiatives that will grow and extend the business is of equal importance. Tom will add expertise in both areas."

Tom was founder and president of Catalyst LLC, a professional services firm dedicated to driving sales excellence through process optimization and strategic alliances. He is a frequent author and speaker on alliance strategy.

Tom was formerly with Oracle Corporation where he led the global Corporate Accounts team responsible for driving worldwide sales with key systems integrators, including Accenture, CGEY and Deloitte Consulting. Tom also directed the worldwide alliance with the IBM Corporation. Tom began his tenure at Oracle as Senior Director in the Global Support Sales organization where he led the Latin America organization to achieve $120 million in annual sales.

Prior to Oracle, Tom established Sequent Computer Systems Latin America organization, during which time he established strategic alliances with firms including Unisys and Oracle to sell turnkey data warehousing solutions. Tom has also held regional and international direct sales management positions with Unisys, Digital Equipment Corporation and NEC Corp., focusing on C level, total solution sales to large commercial and government enterprises in the United States and internationally.

"Corda has just completed seven consecutive profitable quarters providing world class data visualization tools to Global 1000 and government customers in a very challenging economy" says O'Dea. "Now we are poised to provide the most robust executive dashboard solution available for C level enterprise managers who are inundated with data but starved for information. I am proud to be a part of the Corda executive team."

Tom is an MBA graduate of Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management and a former USAF officer with extensive international experience. He is fluent in Spanish and conversant in Arabic.

About CORDA Technologies

Corda Technologies is the global leader in innovative data presentation solutions. Corda's family of products and services are the leading choice for fast, flexible, and scalable interactive graphs and maps as well server-based HTML to PDF conversion solutions. Corda's software displays data as images allowing customers to explore relationships, perform analysis, and more easily understand their data. For more information, please visit www.corda.com.

Company Contact:
CORDA Technologies
David Vandagriff
801 805-9415
801 805-9405 fax
dvan@corda.com

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