Conformative Systems Fortifies Management Team With Three New Vice Presidents.

AUSTIN, Texas -- --Terry Wise is Named VP of Sales, Robert Alvarez is VP of Finance and Trevor Pokorney is VP of Operations

--Veterans Bring Strong Experience to Support the Company's Growth Ramp in 2005

Conformative Systems Inc., a developer of high performance computer systems, today announced that three industry veterans have joined the company and been named vice presidents. All are senior-level executives with years of experience building and managing growth-oriented companies.

With more than 13 years of experience leading sales and business development efforts for various application development, integration and security companies, Terry Wise has extensive knowledge and experience in XML, Web services, and application/systems integration markets. Prior to Conformative, Terry was vice president of worldwide sales for Forum Systems, a leader in XML/Web services security products. While at Forum, Terry was responsible for overseeing a field organization that closed over 40 Fortune 500 and government accounts. Prior to Forum, Terry spent over 10 years with the Cambridge Technology Group where he held numerous senior business development positions in CTG's portfolio companies. During this time Terry was a co-founder of C-bridge Internet Solutions (IPO 1999), a leading e-business systems integrator, where he led their sales efforts that resulted in growing the company to a revenue run rate of over $100 million, 900+ employees and a market cap in excess of $1.3B.

Prior to joining Conformative, Robert Alvarez was the director of finance at Crossroads Systems (Nasdaq:CRDS), a leading global provider for storage networking solutions, where he played a key role in the company's successful $80 million IPO as well as various strategic acquisitions. Robert led a financial organization responsible for all facets of corporate accounting, treasury, financial management and business planning. Most recently, Robert served as the director of business development, where he managed high-level strategic projects and developed new and existing business partnerships. Previously, Robert was a senior associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers, a multi-billion dollar leader in global professional services, where he led teams on various initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions and a wide range of audit engagements. Robert has also held financial and business analyst roles at Dell Computer Corporation.

Trevor Pokorney joins Conformative with more than 15 years experience in the technology industry. Most recently, he was vice president of sales, marketing, and operations at Newisys Inc., leaders in offering enterprise-level, Opteron-based servers. As one of the original five members of the company, he helped it grow from inception to an industry leader, with a customer base including multiple Tier-1 OEMs. Previously, he was vice president of operations at living.com and the general manager at Semiconductor Products Manufacturing Inc., where his customers included AMD, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Siemens, IBM Corporation, and Hewlett Packard. Trevor has also held a number of management roles in operations and engineering at Sulzer Orthopedics, Andersen Consulting, and Fisher Controls.

Trevor's education includes a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a Masters of Science in Operations Research from Carnegie Mellon University.

"We're clearly building our management team for a strong path to growth," said John Derrick, CEO of Conformative. "Terry, Robert and Trevor's backgrounds are all extremely impressive and we're looking forward to the impact their presence will have on our business. As the enterprise Web services and XML markets continue to exhibit strong growth, Conformative is adding to our already strong management team."

Conformative Systems is developing the first and only parallel processing hardware platform for accelerating data intensive XML processing and facilitating web services. Conformative's solution delivers up to 200x faster processing of XML data and enables corporate data centers to work at greater capacity to meet customer needs.

About Conformative Systems

Conformative Systems is a developer of high performance computer systems that dramatically increase application performance while reducing cost and complexity in the enterprise data center. Only Conformative is approaching the problem of XML processing performance through the application of a parallel processing architecture. The company's unique server design incorporates many processors in a single application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), enabling acceleration of enterprise applications and Web services by up to 200 times compared to existing general-purpose servers. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Conformative Systems was founded in 2003 and is backed by Austin Ventures and Charles River Ventures. For more information, visit www.conformative.com.