Covente Names Vicki Brown Client Services Director

Business Wire, May 6, 2005

ATLANTA -- Covente, Inc., a premier provider of strategic pipeline solutions for technology and services companies, today announced the addition of 17-year technology sales and marketing veteran Vicki Brown to its management team.

Brown, who has been named Client Services Director, will be responsible for program development and management, client management and the service delivery areas of the company. Brown will leverage her extensive industry background to grow client relationships and help Covente continue to maximize the return-on-investment its clients realize from its lead generation, target market and pipeline management services.

"Covente continues to build a management team that brings with it extensive technology sales and marketing experience," said Simon Boardman, CEO and general manager for Covente. "Vicki has an outstanding track record of results oriented direct marketing and customer marketing programs that drive revenue and produce quantifiable ROI--experience that is invaluable to our clients as we continue to deliver a more diverse and integrated demand creation offering."

Prior to joining Covente, Brown has had a very successful sales and marketing career with technology leaders such as Ceridian, Clarus Corporation and Logility, Inc. Most recently Brown was a senior marketing representative with Critical3 Marketing, a sales and marketing services firm that targets high-tech emerging growth companies.

"Covente fulfills a critical sales and marketing function for our clients and is known in the marketplace for delivering the very highest quality sales leads," said Vicki Brown, client service director for Covente. "I am thrilled to be joining the management team in an area that will have a direct impact on our clients' successes."

About Covente

Atlanta-based Covente, (www.covente.com), a premier provider of strategic pipeline solutions offers a comprehensive suite of services to build sales pipelines for high-tech companies that will consistently support their revenue goals. Covente's integrated campaign services include Target Market, Prospect Acquisition and Pipeline Management Services which address the challenges its clients face in building and maintaining pipelines with highly qualified sales leads. For over 10 years, EDSI has worked with more than 170 high-tech companies such as Cap Gemini, IBM, Manhattan Associates, SAP and Timogen Systems delivering over $5 billion of revenue potential to its clients' sales pipelines.