Critical Path CEO to Present At Robertson Stephens Technology Conference.

Business Editors

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2002

Critical Path Inc. (NASDAQ:CPTH), a global leader in Internet communications, will present at the Robertson Stephens Technology Conference in San Francisco. William McGlashan, Jr., CEO, will host a formal presentation that will highlight the completion of Critical Path's restructuring and its return to financial stability. He will cover how the company intends to achieve revenue and earnings growth in 2002, including the global opportunity for Critical Path's Internet communications software and services within the enterprise, government, service provider and carrier markets. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.

Where:   The Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco

When:    Thursday, February 28, 2002, 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time

About Critical Path Inc.

Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPTH) delivers software and services that maximize the value of Internet communications. The company provides messaging and collaboration solutions -- from wireless, secure and unified messaging to basic email and personal information management -- as well as identity management solutions that simplify user profile management and strengthen information security. The standards-based Critical Path Communications Platform, built to perform reliably at the scale of public networks, delivers the industry's lowest total cost of ownership for messaging solutions and lays a solid foundation for next-generation communications services. Critical Path's customers include more than 700 enterprises, 180 carriers and service providers, eight national postal authorities and 40 government agencies. Critical Path is headquartered in San Francisco with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. More information on Critical Path can be found at www.cp.net

Forward-Looking Statements 

This press release contains forward-looking statements by the Company and its executives regarding expected future business, financial and product performance, including the Company's statements regarding endorsements of our product and services offerings by our customers and partners, the strategic refocusing of our operations throughout the world, industry trends, market requirements and the ability of our products and services to meet the business needs of our customers, and the market for outsourced services like ours and our strategic partners. The words and expressions "look forward to," "will," "expect," "plan," "believe," "seek," "strive for," "anticipate," "estimate" and similar expressions are intended to identify the Company's forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, our evolving business strategy and the emerging and changing nature of the market for our products and services, our ability to deliver on our sales objectives, the ability of our technology and our competitors' technologies to address customer demands, changes in economic and market conditions, unplanned system interruptions and capacity constraints, software and service design defects. These and other risks and uncertainties are described in more detail in the Company's filings with the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov) made from time to time, including Critical Path's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2000, as amended, and the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 2001, June 30, 2001 and March 30, 2001, as may be amended from time to time.

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