iTKO Appoints Simon Jeacock to the Role of Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales; Bringing More Than 18 Years Experience; Executive to Shape Global Presence for Leading SOA Testing Vendor

Business Wire, July 17, 2006

DALLAS -- iTKO, Inc., a provider of complete testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, today announced that it has appointed Simon M. Jeacock as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales. In his new role, Mr. Jeacock will be responsible for growing the company's worldwide sales efforts. This includes working with systems engineers, sales representatives and the company's channel partners to ensure consistency for both the direct and indirect sales efforts.

"We are thrilled to have Mr. Jeacock join our organization," said Shridhar Mittal, chief executive officer, iTKO, Inc. "He is a strategic, results-oriented executive with a consistent track record of building and leading sales organizations. He has been instrumental in helping a number of enterprises expand their international presence to better define themselves in the marketplace. We are confident that the combination of his skill set and our superior product offering will ensure additional mutual success."

Mr. Jeacock comes to iTKO with more than 18 years of experience and an international pedigree in sales and sales management. He previously worked with Servigistics of Atlanta as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales, where he grew revenues year on year to record levels, while reorganizing the company's US operations. His additional responsibilities included opening up new facilities in Japan and China, along with expanding the company's European presence. Prior to that Mr. Jeacock was Senior Vice President of Sales: Aerospace & Defense, for i2 Technologies. He has also held positions with System Software Associates and ASK Computer Systems, Inc. and PAFEC Ltd., all located in Europe.

"I am excited to be part of the iTKO team," said Mr. Jeacock. "I was attracted to the organization because of its stellar lineup of executives, as well as its top-notch product line. iTKO is on a fast track for success in a very hot market and I look forward to contributing to that success through expanding upon its global sales strategy."

About iTKO

iTKO Inc., delivers solutions that increase software quality while reducing business risk. The Dallas-based company's software ensures that every layer of business software, including Web sites, web services, databases, middleware and Java applications continually perform and meet requirements. iTKO's LISA 3 Complete SOA Testing Platform automates functional, regression and load test creation and execution, requiring no coding to deeply test Web sites and back-end systems. In addition, iTKO's easy-to-use tools can be leveraged by the business team, development team and quality assurance team, enabling the entire organization to "own" quality. Founded as an enterprise software development group in 1999, the privately held company serves a variety of clients that need to ensure software quality at high transaction volume, including Sun Microsystems, EMC, AMD, Capgemini and TIBCO Software. http://www.itko.com