AeA's San Diego Council Names Captiva CEO New Chairman; Reynolds C. Bish to Lead Local Chapter of the Nation's Largest High-Tech Trade Association.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 2003

The San Diego chapter of the American Electronics Association (AeA), the nation's largest high-tech trade association, today named Reynolds Bish, president and CEO of Captiva Software Corp. (Nasdaq:CPTV), a leading provider of input management solutions, as its new chairman for the 2004 fiscal year. As part of this new role, Bish will also have a seat on the AeA national board of directors.

"Reynolds brings to this position an intrinsic understanding of the high-tech industry and the needs of its members," said AeA San Diego Council Executive Director Kevin Carroll. "His strong leadership has paved the way for Captiva to become the global leader in the input management market space with well over 1,000 customers."

"I look forward to working with AeA's San Diego Council in advancing its visibility and agenda in the local community, as well as serving on AeA's National Board," said Bish.

Active in the input management and enterprise content management (ECM) markets for over 20 years, Bish has served as president, CEO and a director of Captiva since co-founding the company in 1989. Under his leadership, Captiva has defined the input management market and grown from a start up to a Nasdaq-listed company with anticipated revenues of approximately $56 million, solid profitability and positive cash flow in 2003.

The AeA San Diego Councils' membership of over 200 high-tech and business service provider corporations is comprised of firms from the software, semiconductor, computer, telecommunications, medical device, multi-media, instrumentation, legal, accounting and banking/investment business segments. It's committed to providing numerous networking and educational programs for its members.

About Captiva

Captiva Software Corp. (Nasdaq:CPTV) is a leading provider of input management solutions. Since 1989, the company's award-winning products have been used to manage business critical information from paper, faxed and scanned forms and documents, Internet forms and XML data streams into the enterprise in a more accurate, timely and cost-effective manner. These products automate the processing of billions of forms and documents annually, converting their contents into information that is usable in database, document, content and other information management systems. Captiva's technology serves thousands of users in insurance, financial services, government, business process outsourcing, direct marketing and other markets. For more information, visit www.captivasoftware.com.

About AeA

Advancing the business of technology, AeA is the nation's largest high-tech trade association. AeA represents more than 3,000 companies with 1.8 million employees. These 3,000+ companies span the high-technology spectrum, from software, semiconductors, medical devices and computers to Internet technology, advanced electronics and telecommunications systems and services. With 17 regional U.S. councils and offices in Brussels and Beijing, AeA offers a unique global policy grassroots capability and a wide portfolio of valuable business services and products for the high-tech industry. AeA has been the accepted voice of the U.S. technology community since 1943. More information can be found at: http://www.aeanet.org/.

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