Mindreef

Hollis, NH — February 9, 2005 — Mindreef^®, Inc., a leading provider of Web services testing, diagnostic and collaborative solutions for Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOA), today announced that industry guru Bob Zurek has joined the company's board of advisors.

Zurek brings more than 20 years of industry experience to Mindreef and will provide strategic advice regarding product direction and development for the company’s collaborative solutions for Web services and SOA. He joins current advisory board member Dr. Douglas Mook, president of The Aptec Group, which provides technical and business due diligence services to institutional investors.

"Bob is a tremendous addition to our board of advisors," said Frank Grossman, co-founder and president of Mindreef. "With his deep knowledge of application integration and service-oriented architectures, we expect he’ll have a significant impact on the evolution of Mindreef’s product portfolio – designed to help our customers expand their Web services deployments into meaningful SOAs."

Zurek served as vice president of product management and advanced technologies at Ascential Software, prior to the acquisition of Ascential by IBM. His previous experience includes serving as senior technology research analyst with Forrester Research, co-founder of LumaPath, vice president and CTO of Incentive Systems, vice president of research and technology and Fellow at Sybase and Powersoft, and founder and vice president of Infinity Systems which was acquired by Powersoft.

“Mindreef is focused on the importance of communication and sharing information throughout the service-oriented lifecycle,” said Zurek. “I look forward to working with the Mindreef team as the company continues to grow its portfolio of collaborative solutions for SOA.”

About Mindreef

Mindreef, Inc. is delivering the first Web services lifecycle collaboration platform for the development of Web services and adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA). Mindreef products enable business analysts, architects, application developers, testers, operations, and support staff to build, deploy, and maintain software for a SOA. More than a thousand customers worldwide are using Mindreef’s products. Mindreef is a private company, venture backed by Kodiak Partners. For more information, visit www.mindreef.com