Dejima Appoints Steven Stenton Vice President of Marketing.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 2001

Dejima, Inc. has named marketing expert Steven Stenton Vice President of Marketing. In his new position, Stenton will be responsible planning and directing all worldwide marketing programs for Dejima.

Stenton, a 17-year industry veteran, joins Dejima from Symbian Limited, where he was product manager for the company's Smartphone and Core Technologies divisions.

With proven technical and marketing expertise, Stenton possesses the necessary skills to speed global adoption of Dejima's patented natural interaction technology. He has demonstrated his technical skills as a member of the team that developed the original Amstrad range of home and business computers, and as a member of the business computer platforms team at Tandy Computers (Radioshack). He crafted his marketing skills as founder and manager of the UK based Image Design Group, and at a large London-based marketing agency where he founded and directed the firm's information technology division that serviced clients such as Fujitsu, Cap Gemini, DEC, and Systems Union.

"Steven's addition to Dejima provides the executive level marketing direction required to ensure our success worldwide," Antoine Blondeau, Dejima chief executive officer, said.

Stenton's appointment further demonstrates Dejima's continued growth. The company offers its natural interaction solutions to worldwide customers looking for more intuitive and direct product and application interface solutions. Dejima's patented technology enables companies to create natural interfaces that allow end users to access information and operate any device or application with the same language used in everyday human-to-human interaction.

"I look forward to playing a key role in Dejima's ongoing success, and to working with our customers and partners to further proliferate the industry's premiere natural interaction technology," Stenton said.

About Dejima, Inc.

Dejima Direct enables developers to create an intuitive, direct interface -- a bridge between what end users want and the sophisticated applications and databases they are trying to access. The basis of Dejima's patented technology is an agent-oriented software engineering methodology that breaks up complex software into a community of simpler, collaborating, message-driven components. Interface solutions built with the Dejima Direct Platform are more successful than SMS, WAP, Web, Email, Imode, and speech because they focus on the user's intent, not on input accuracy or grammar compliance.

Dejima is a privately held global company founded in 1998 with offices in San Jose (headquarters), London and Tokyo. Dejima's patented platform enables companies to provide end users easy ways to interact with technology.

For more information on Dejima and our technology, please visit http://www.dejima.com.