Keynote Appoints New Vice President and Managing Director for EMEA

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Thursday, July 21, 2005; 04:18 PM

Keynote Systems (www.keynote.com) announced that Haran Sold, former director of product marketing and business development for the manufacturing and distribution sector across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for Oracle/PeopleSoft, has been named Vice President and Managing Director for the EMEA region for Keynote. In this position, Sold assumes responsibility for sales, operations and professional services, including Keynote's service level management (SLM) and customer experience management (CEM) solutions to expand and increase Keynote's market share outside of the United States. Mr. Sold reports to Patrick Quirk, executive vice president of worldwide customer operations.

"As the only global player providing both IT service level and customer experience management solutions, Keynote is well positioned to help EMEA e-business achieve its goals," said Patrick Quirk, executive vice president of worldwide customer operations at Keynote.

"The e-business market across the EMEA region has matured slower than in the U.S., but is now at the point of explosive growth," said Haran Sold.

"I welcome the opportunity to expand on the success and reputation for accuracy and independence that Keynote enjoys in the States and to help build a market leading Keynote EMEA organization through aggressive growth and aquisitions."

During the course of his career, Sold held a variety of management positions at NEC and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he managed the successful development, implementation and deployment of large international strategic business information programs. Sold served as director of product marketing at PeopleSoft prior to its acquisition by Oracle. He has over 15 years of international management experience in both high tech and consumer enterprise markets.