Caneum Inc. Announces the Appointment of Luan Dang, Former Linksys and Cisco Executive, to the Board of Directors; Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing Company Also Accepts the Resignation of Board Member Douglas Wadkins.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Caneum Inc. (OTCBB:CANM) announced that effective May 2, 2005, it has added Luan Dang as a member of its board of directors.

Dang is a private investor, advisor to Trymetris Capital Mgt and Edgewater Networks, and director of Trycera Financial. Formerly, he was a director of engineering at Linksys, a subdivision of Cisco Systems, overseeing the development of VoIP products and strategies. Dang came to Cisco through the acquisition of Vovida Networks, where he was chief technology officer & co-founder. Dang has management and software development experience for technology-based companies. His industry experience includes circuit and microprocessor development as well as telephony-related development projects. Dang worked as a technical software manager for Nortel Networks, focused on voice-over-IP, speech recognition, voice-activated attendants and personal directory and auto-configuration feature development for digital terminals. Dang has successfully managed software development projects in many areas and has also completed software programming as a senior software engineer, software engineer and software architect. Dang served as a member of the Technical Advisory Council for the International Softswitch Consortium (www.softswitch.org) from 1999-2002. Dang holds a patent on display screen management apparatus (1997) and caller IP (1998). Dang earned an M.S. in computer science from Stanford and a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of California at San Diego 

Douglas Wadkins tendered his resignation so that he could have the bandwidth needed for his role as CTO at Edgewater Networks and work through their operational start-up ramp. Wadkins will continue to work with Caneum Inc. as an advisory board member. The resignation will be effective April 29, 2005.

"We are pleased to transition Luan Dang to our board as we begin to integrate the first of our targeted acquisitions and will benefit from Luan's background and expertise to optimize the company's rapid growth," stated Alan Knitowski, chairman of Caneum Inc.

"I'm extremely pleased to have the opportunity to serve on Caneum's board of directors as the company enters a new growth phase of its operational development. With the announced signing of the company's intent to acquire the Backgrounds Division of Clarence Kelley and Associates, I am excited to be able to bring practical M&A integration experience to assist Caneum with the micro-cap roll-up aspect of its business model," commented Dang.

About Caneum Inc.:

Caneum Inc. is a global provider of business process and information technology outsourcing products and services across vertical industries including technology, energy, government, transportation, financial services, education and healthcare. The company provides a suite of business strategy and planning capabilities to assist companies with their "make versus buy" decisions in the areas of data, network, product development, product maintenance and customer support, and fulfills its services in-house, on-shore, near-shore and off-shore depending on the business goals and objectives of its global customers. In parallel, Caneum is opportunistically pursuing accretive acquisitions within its core outsourcing product and service suite in order to broaden its core capabilities, expand its customer base and supplement its organic growth. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.caneum.com.

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