Cybermation Continues Its Corporate Growth Across North America; Company Appoints John Dratch and Steve Turpin to Lead US Division Expansion.

Business/Technology Editors

Cybermation Inc., a leading developer of enterprise automation solutions, announced its expansion of Cybermation USA Inc. (CUS), a subsidiary of Cybermation International Inc. (CII). The company also announced the recent appointment of John Dratch, President of CUS and the promotion of Steve Turpin to Vice President, North American Professional Services.

"One of our long term goals has been to evolve Cybermation USA Inc. into a self-managed subsidiary of Cybermation International Inc.," stated Ray Nissan, Cybermation's chairman and chief technology architect. "Mr. Dratch and Mr. Turpin are leading the way towards the steady growth of our company in North America."

Mr. Dratch brings years of experience with him both as a Cybermation customer and as a business partner. As the Director of Data Processing and Technical Support at JCPenney, Mr. Dratch implemented Cybermation's ESP Workload Management Solution to lead his company to high levels of business automation, saving JCPenney millions of dollars and strategically positioning them in the retail sector. After retiring from this role in 1997, he joined Cybermation as a Director on its CII Board. In this role, he has helped direct new product investments and advance the corporate infrastructure. Earlier this year, he was appointed Chairman of the CUS Board, where his primary duty was to establish the current active, operational CUS Board of Directors.

Mr. Dratch will be responsible for further establishing Cybermation's US operations and for transitioning the management and control of all CUS activities residing at Cybermation Inc. These will include expanding the general management infrastructure and continuing to develop all other aspects of the company's growth.

Assisting Mr. Dratch in establishing the CUS operation is Steve Turpin, who has been promoted to Vice President, North American Professional Services. Mr. Turpin possesses over seventeen years of diversified MIS experience, including extensive management and professional services/consulting experience. His role at Cybermation has been enhanced by his computer operations experience in large mainframe environments and by eleven years of sales support focusing on both pre- and post-sales activity.

Mr. Turpin has worked in the Toronto Head Office since 1999 and is responsible for building the company's world-class Professional Services group. He will continue to oversee those activities to strengthen an experienced and proven Professional Services team across North America.

About Cybermation

Cybermation Inc. is recognized by its many Global 2000 customers as a leading developer of automation solutions for job scheduling, workload management and software change management for heterogeneous computing environments. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. Cybermation's customers include Allstate Insurance, CN Rail, Delta Air Lines, Gap Inc., Honda, McDonalds, Nike, The Bay, UPS, and Verizon in North America and T-Mobile UK, Sony, VHV and Janssen Pharmaceutica in Europe.

Cybermation products include ESP Workload Manager(R) and ESP Espresso(TM), enterprise-wide job scheduling and workload management for OS/390(R), UNIX(R), Windows NT(R) and OS/400(R) operating systems and for SAP R/3(R), Oracle(R) and PeopleSoft(R) ERP environments; ESP Workstation(R), a graphical user interface for enterprise scheduling from a single point of control; ESP Encore(R) for automated rerun, restart and recovery; and ESP Alchemist, enterprise software change management for software development and data-center production environments.

Cybermation and ESP Workload Manager are registered trademarks of Cybermation, Inc. ESP Espresso is a trademark of Cybermation, Inc.

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