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Former Oracle Executive Joins CORDA Technologies as President and CEO
-John Purvis takes Corda's helm to drive excellence in delivering high technology solutions to an increasingly international market-

Salt Lake City - March 28, 2006 -CORDA Technologies, Inc. announced today the appointment of John Purvis as President and CEO. Corda founder and former CEO, Neal Williams, will maintain his position as Chairman of the Board and take on a new role as Chief Operating Officer.

"Corda invents," Purvis said. "We have a long history of putting patented and patent-pending data visualization technology into the hands of developers. Increasingly, through alliances and our own sales and services operations, Corda is also bringing complete solutions to the global market. We are thrilled with the excitement which our CenterView™ executive dashboard solution is generating. CenterView provides for rapid instrumentation of the continuous planning, alignment, execution and inspection cycle inherent to all businesses."

Williams' new role is designed to capitalize on his technological expertise. Williams will work to expand Corda's current footprint of data visualization solutions, accelerate technology innovation and enhance Corda's professional services efforts.

"Data is coming at us faster and faster from more and more sources. Corda lives at the center of the enterprise. We provide eye-popping visualization of data in any form which is pulled securely, in real-time, and from edge to edge across the enterprise," said Williams.

John Purvis has more than 25 years of richly varied experience at the leading edge of high technology. He began his career in software development and ultimately built his own successful software company specializing in computer based training technology. Purvis has served in executive positions in software research and development, sales, services and marketing in major corporations including NCR, Unisys, Silicon Graphics and Oracle Corporation. He has extensive international experience including a posting in Singapore where he founded and managed a hardware and software sales and services operation with responsibilities across Asia. Purvis was Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing, in Oracle's support services business where he grew an operation responsible for 93 countries and $3 billion in annual revenue.

Purvis is an internationally recognized thought leader in services sales and marketing, and served as an early member of the advisory board for ITSMA (Information Technology Services Marketing Association) and as a Principal of Hahn Consulting. During the past several years, Purvis has served on the boards and advisory boards of several entrepreneurial ventures, including Corda Technologies, Echopass, Opcentric and Encover. He was recently the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Encover. While with Encover, he opened a sales center in Sandy, Utah. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated an interest in teaching; he taught part-time at the graduate and undergraduate levels in mathematics and computer science. Purvis has also served as a Program Evaluator for the Computer Sciences Accreditation Board. Purvis earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Georgia where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina.

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