Julio Gomez Joins Aleri's Advisory Board

Business Wire, May 13, 2008

CHICAGO -- Aleri Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-class complex event processing (CEP) technology, today announced that Julio Gomez has joined Aleri's Advisory board, where he joins other prominent financial market and technology industry thought leaders.

Gomez is Founder of Gomez Markets, a recently formed strategy consulting firm that is developing a series of benchmarks for capital markets in segments critical for achieving competitive advantage. Prior to founding Gomez Markets, Gomez was Vice President, Global Research for Financial Insights, an IDC company, responsible for shaping the global financial services technology research agenda. Before working with Financial Insights he was founder of Gomez, Inc., a leading Web application monitoring firm, and earlier was in trading, institutional sales, and investment banking.

Gomez is widely known and highly respected in the industry. Institutional Investor named him one of Wall Street's "50 Most Influential People" and Time Magazine listed him among the "Fifty Most Influential People Shaping Technology".

"Julio Gomez's experience as a technology innovator, combined with his direct experience in Capital Markets, Corporate Banking, and Retail Financial Services makes him a great addition to our Advisory Board," said Don DeLoach, CEO of Aleri. "We look forward to leveraging his deep expertise and knowledge that will provide us with insight to help us identify, develop and facilitate exciting growth opportunities in the fast growing complex event processing market."

"Aleri's management team and advisors are committed to bringing a highly valuable technology solution to data-intensive industries," said Mr. Gomez. "Any firm that has to deal with exploding data streams in real-time in order to compete must look at Aleri. Complex Event Processing is a compelling enabling technology for many applications that demand scalability, flexibility, and reasonable cost."

About Aleri

Aleri is a leading provider of enterprise-class complex event processing (CEP) technology for financial institutions and beyond. Aleri's CEP Platform was designed from the ground up to provide the most robust architecture available for the rapid implementation of mission critical applications within the most demanding environments. Built for high throughput with minimal latency, Aleri's event processing technology allows customers to analyze and respond instantly to high-volume, high-speed data to minimize risk and increase competitive advantage.

Aleri is the first to develop and deploy commercial enterprise-class applications built on event processing technology, the Aleri Liquidity Management System, which is used by some of the largest global bank treasuries in the world, and the Aleri Market Liquidity Analysis engine, which consolidates multiple order book feeds from individual exchanges to provide a powerful tool for trading in fragmented markets.

Aleri is a global company headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York, New Jersey, London, and Paris. For more information, visit www.aleri.com.