Critical Path Names Christopher LaBruna General Manager, Americas.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2002

Proven Enterprise Software Sales Executive Joins Team to

Build on Company Momentum and Drive Revenue Growth

Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTH), a global leader in Internet communications solutions, today appointed Chris LaBruna general manager and vice president, Americas. LaBruna will draw upon his extensive experience driving sales and revenue growth at technology industry leaders such as Business Objects and IBM to drive the company's sales force in North and South America and expand sales to corporations, carriers and service providers, governments and postal authorities.

"We are determined to build upon our financial stability and continue our momentum through aggressive sales growth and, through his experience with building results-oriented sales organizations that exceed revenue targets, we believe Chris can help us reach new heights in the coming year," said Pierre Van Beneden, president of Critical Path. "He has demonstrated a proven ability to identify market opportunities and empower sales teams to develop creative solutions that will help our customers maximize the value of Internet communications."

LaBruna previously worked at Business Objects as vice president, western region, where he led an 80-person team and delivered year-over-year revenue growth of up to 70 percent. In the difficult 2001 IT sales environment, he grew year-over-year revenue 45 percent. That growth established the western region as the company's U.S. leader in sales performance by the third quarter of 2001 from its prior last place position in January of 1999. LaBruna drove that growth by building solid relationships with premier clients that included Cisco Systems, eBay, EDS, HP and PepsiCo, often displacing established competitors.

"Critical Path has established a global reputation for providing superior messaging, collaboration and identity management solutions on a common Internet communications platform," said LaBruna. "The company has a tremendous opportunity to shape how the world will communicate over the next century. I look forward helping customers meet their Internet communications needs though technology that provides maximum scalability, extensibility and accessibility."

At IBM, where LaBruna served for more than years, he earned the honor of being named "Sales Manager of the Year" for North America Business Intelligence Software in 1997 by expanding sales and revenue by 300 percent over two years. As sales manager for IBM's Great Lakes area, his sales team generated the company's highest productivity per Business Intelligence sales representative in North America.

LaBruna graduated with honors from New York University with a bachelor's degree in computer science and earned a master's degree in computer science from Columbia University.

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.

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