Convera Names Steven M. Samowich as New Chief Operating Officer.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2004

Convera Corporation (NASDAQ:CNVR), a leading provider of search and categorization software for enterprises and government agencies, today announced that Steven M. Samowich has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer. Samowich will be responsible for the company's product development, marketing, sales, professional services and customer support functions.

"We are pleased to have an executive with Steve's broad range of business and sales expertise to lead Convera's key operating functions," said Patrick C. Condo, President and CEO, Convera. "Steve's experience in both the commercial and government markets will be a valuable asset for our company as we continue to pursue growth in these markets."

Samowich recently served as Vice President of the Government Business Unit at OpenText Corporation where he was responsible for the sale of collaboration and document management software to federal government agencies and defense contractors. He also held the position of President, CEO and member of the Board of Directors at Infodata Systems, a NASDAQ listed information technology professional services and systems integration firm in Fairfax, Virginia. Earlier in his career, Samowich served as Corporate Vice President and Division General Manager at Simplex Time Recorder in Gardner, Massachusetts, managing a $100M business where he grew software revenues threefold, and as Vice President and General Manager of North America at Visix Software in Reston, Virginia. Additionally, Samowich worked in various commercial and government sales management positions during a 13-year career with Computervision of Bedford, Massachusetts.

"I am delighted to join Convera as we continue to improve the execution of our growth strategy within the enterprise search software market," said Steven M. Samowich, Chief Operating Officer, Convera. "I look forward to sharpening the focus of our product development, marketing and sales efforts on providing high value solutions to our customers in the fastest growing market segments."

About Convera

Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search and categorization solutions. Convera's RetrievalWare solutions maximize return on investment in vast stores of unstructured information by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information, in more than 45 languages. More than 900 customers in 33 countries rely on Convera's search solutions to power a broad range of mission-critical applications including enterprise portals, knowledge management, intelligence gathering, profiling, corporate policy compliance, regulatory compliance, customer service and more. For more information, contact Convera at 800-788-7758, via e-mail at [e-mail] or on the Web at www.convera.com

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