Contivo Appoints Technology Veteran Larry Lenhart as CEO; Lenhart Brings In-depth Industry Experience and Leadership to the Data Integration Pioneer.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 2002

Contivo, Inc., the leading provider of automated data integration, today announced the appointment of Larry Lenhart as president and chief executive officer. Leveraging his extensive experience in the software and services industry, Lenhart will be responsible for overall company growth. Lenhart's proven track record operating and scaling organizations will ensure that Contivo continues to align its advanced and intelligent semantic-based integration modeling technology with evolving market opportunity. He takes over the position from Indra Mohan, founder of the company, who will continue at Contivo as the chairman of the board of directors.

Lenhart brings more than 18 years of management experience to Contivo. Prior to joining Contivo, Lenhart served as the president and CEO of CAT Technology, which was acquired by BlueStar Solutions. At BlueStar Solutions, Lenhart served as the executive vice president of strategy and corporate development. Before joining CAT, Lenhart was a managing partner at Deloitte & Touche, and vice president of operations at Cadis, now a part of i2 Technologies. Lenhart has also held senior positions at A.T. Kearney and Gemini Consulting. Additionally, Lenhart sits on the Board of Trustees of Emory and Henry College, the Strategic Advisory Council for Dorsett Capital and serves on the advisory board of a number of technology-based companies.

"Larry's commitment to Contivo's success, his extensive operational management and impressive industry experience and insights, makes him the obvious choice for Contivo," said Rory O'Driscoll, managing director at BA Venture Partners and member of Contivo's board of directors. "Contivo is experiencing tremendous growth and success, including recently being recognized as the second fastest growing private company in Silicon Valley by Silicon Valley Business Journal. Larry is the right person to build on Contivo's achievements to drive the next phase of development for the company."

"We're delighted to have Larry on board at Contivo," said Indra Mohan, founder and chairman of the board, Contivo. "Larry's operational experience and leadership will benefit Contivo as we enter a period of aggressive growth. Founded to ease integration projects, Contivo is becoming widely recognized as a leader in data integration technology and Larry will be an asset to the company as we further develop our service and software for current and future customers."

"I'm very excited to assume the leadership of this dedicated and talented team," said Larry Lenhart, the new chief executive officer at Contivo. "Contivo's software solution has already helped companies better manage their integration projects while saving time, money and effort. I am confident that, together with our partners, we can continue to leverage the strengths of this technology to solve integration implementation issues, especially in today's challenging economic environment where we deliver immediate ROI benefits."

While current data integration efforts are still very much manual, consisting of repetitive hand coded tasks that are not reusable in creation or maintenance, Contivo's approach, called Enterprise Integration Modeling (EIM), reduces the time and expenditure of integration by automating these tasks through the use of data semantics and metadata models. Comprised of the Contivo Analyst(TM) and the Contivo EIM Server(TM), the Contivo EIM Solution helps enterprises integrate data faster and more effectively. The recently expanded capabilities and platform support of the EIM Solution enable data integration across the enterprise, extending to legacy systems and Web services.

About Contivo

Contivo provides product solutions that enable enterprises to dramatically reduce the time, effort, and dollars spent to design and maintain software integration efforts. The Contivo approach provides integration architects with a centrally-managed repository that introduces reuse and collaboration to a previously one-off and manual task. Contivo introduced the concept of Enterprise Integration Modeling (EIM), a framework on which companies can create, leverage, and manage their knowledge base of data integration efforts.

Contivo was founded in 1998 and has forged significant relationships with strategic partners and customers, including BEA Systems, webMethods, Agilent Technologies, Hitachi America, Viacore, and TIBCO Software. Corporate investors include industry leaders BEA Systems, TIBCO Software, and webMethods. Venture capital investors include BA Venture Partners, MSD Capital LP, and Voyager Capital. Contivo is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, CA. More information about the company can be found at http://www.contivo.com/.