Critical Path, Inc. Scores Executive Coup With New CFO and CIO; David Thatcher and Joe Duncan to Fill Key Roles At Leading Outsourced Email Provider.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 1999--Critical Path, Inc., the leading provider of email solutions for Internet service providers (ISPs), Web hosting companies, telecommunications companies, and corporations, today announced that it has added two key executives to its senior management team.

David Thatcher has joined the firm as EVP, chief financial officer and Joseph Duncan will assume the role of VP, chief information officer.

Thatcher brings over 20 years of experience in corporate finance and operations, working with high-growth, high-tech companies such as Pacific Data Products, Peregrine Systems, The McKinley Group, and Diba. He previously served on Critical Path's Board of Directors and joins the firm from GeoWorks Corporation (Nasdaq:GWRZ) where he was president and CEO. His career at GeoWorks began in March 1997 as chief financial officer and vice president of finance and administration.

Duncan will lead Critical Path's Engineering and Operations teams and focus on continuing to build the global messaging infrastructure. Prior to joining Critical Path, he founded Charybdis Software serving the pharmaceutical and bioinformatics markets. Previously, he was at Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq:ORCL) for more than four years, most recently as sr. vice president for Groupware Systems and Object-Oriented Tools. His 20-year career also includes a variety of senior positions with Borland International, Lotus Development Corp., and Wang Laboratories.

"Critical Path is poised to dominate the global messaging services arena, and we're extremely pleased that two industry luminaries of Joe Duncan's and Dave Thatcher's caliber will help us get there," said Doug Hickey, president and chief executive officer of Critical Path, Inc. "As CIO, Joe's breadth of experience will provide the right leadership for our engineering and operations teams as we begin to build out data centers in Europe, Australia, and Asia."

"Dave Thatcher and I worked side by side in the pioneering days of the search engine space," said David Hayden, founder and chairman of Critical Path, Inc. "It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work together again on the threshold of another exploding industry -- outsourced messaging services."

Kevin Harvey, partner at Benchmark Capital and member of the Critical Path Board of Directors said, "This is a great achievement for Critical Path. Attracting top talent like this is further validation of the market potential for outsourced email."

About Critical Path, Inc.

Critical Path, Inc. is a privately held corporation founded in 1997, with venture backing from Benchmark Capital; Mohr, Davidow Ventures; SOFTBANK Holdings, Inc.; E-TRADE Group (Nasdaq:EGRP); and @Ventures, a division of CMG Information Services, Inc. (Nasdaq:CMGI). With a mission to "handle the world's email," the company has built an industry-leading global infrastructure with data centers connected to key Internet exchange points, and is currently under contract to host over four million mailboxes for ISPs, Web hosting companies, Web portals and corporations. Critical Path is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, please call Critical Path at 415/808-8800, or visit the Critical Path Web site at www.cp.net.

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