openQ Adds Three Industry Veterans to Sales, Professional Services and Customer Support Management Teams.

Leading provider of key relationship management solutions expands leadership as a result of substantial company growth

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- openQ, a provider of integrated key relationship management solutions for the life sciences industry, today announced the addition of three industry leaders to the sales, professional services and customer support teams, continuing the unprecedented growth the company experienced in 2006.

An industry veteran with over 20 years of sales, marketing and business development experience, Ted Pine has joined openQ as vice president of sales and marketing. In this position, he will be responsible for overall business development efforts, including expanding an already substantial customer base within the life sciences industry, while managing a global sales team.

Prior to joining openQ, Pine served as the senior director of strategic accounts for Leadership in Medicine, Inc., a Vermont-based provider of critical competitive intelligence on opinion and thought leader in specific medical market niches. Within this role, Pine established major new accounts at leading pharmaceutical firms including Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis and Wyeth as well as biotech firms such as Amgen, Genzyme and Genentech.

Additionally, openQ has appointed Stephen Saxton to the role of vice president of professional services. Saxton's role will include managing customer relationships, building and growing new businesses and developing innovative growth strategies for openQ. With more than 23 years of professional experience, Saxton was most recently with Ariba, Inc., a California-based leading spend management solutions provider. As a global account manager, and with over six years logged with Ariba, Saxton was responsible for building advisory relationships with senior executives within enterprise client base and managing ongoing sales to existing enterprise accounts in the central region.

In an effort to meet the ever changing needs of customers, openQ has named Suresh Veeravalli the director of quality and customer support. In this role, Veeravalli will be responsible for of the full spectrum of openQ's quality and customer support programs and activities. A Six Sigma Green Belt, Veeravalli joins openQ from Wachovia Securities, a Virginia-based brokerage and asset management company. Veeravalli brings a range of experience to openQ including testing, developing and managing quality programs, establishing customer facing organizations and routines in software arena across industries and functional areas.

"The worldwide expansion of our company and the growing needs of our customers surrounding key opinion leader relationship management prompted our decision to appoint additional leadership at openQ," said Jim Zuffoletti, president and co-founder of openQ. "Ted Pine, Stephen Saxton and Suresh Veeravalli demonstrate the leadership characteristics and critical experience most important to openQ and we are thrilled to have them join our team. We are confident their talent and skills will help to further the growth of openQ both in 2007 and beyond."

About openQ

openQ, headquartered in Charlottesville, VA, develops and delivers solutions for the strategic management of key relationships across life science and other industries. With a culture committed to improving business insights and intelligence, openQ is focused on the market knowledge and thought leadership that drives technology advances and optimizes business results. For more information, visit www.openq.com.