RAVENFLOW NAMES JIM RILEY AS VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES

Leading provider of business requirements definition software announces new vice president of sales to head expanding sales division

Emeryville, CA—July 27, 2009—Ravenflow™, the leader in Business Requirements Definition™, today announced the appointment of Jim Riley to the position of vice president of sales. Riley will be responsible for leading the company’s sales strategies and operations. Riley joins Ravenflow from Pegasystems, a provider of business process management (BPM) software solutions, where he led sales to the federal government.

"Jim is an experienced leader who has consistently driven sales results at companies of all stages of growth," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow. "His significant experience in the software industry and domain expertise will be a valuable asset to the Ravenflow management team. Our market is developing rapidly, and we look forward to working with Jim to explore and take advantage of new growth opportunities."

Riley brings extensive sales and management experience with more than 20 years experience in the technology industry. Prior to Pegasystems, Riley served as senior vice president of North American operations at Micro Focus, where he was responsible for all sales and marketing operations in North America. In addition, Riley has held executive management positions at Secure Software and IBM Rational Software, and, earlier in his career, at Data General, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems.

"The requirements definition market is continuing to gain strength and Ravenflow continues to innovate and provide value to CIO initiatives," said Riley. "I am looking forward to further expanding Ravenflow’s market presence and continuing to increase awareness of the powerful ROI solution offered through the RAVEN technology."

About Ravenflow
Ravenflow is the leading provider of business requirements definition software that allows companies to gain better insight, clarity, and quality in their process improvement and application development projects. Leveraging a uniquely business-driven and process-based approach, Ravenflow transforms requirements definition by empowering business analysts to rapidly produce clear specifications of their business process workflows, business use cases, and business application needs. Ravenflow recently was named the 2009 Partner of the Year by IBM Rational, received the 2009 Jolt Productivity Award, and was selected as a Gartner "Cool Vendor in Application Development."


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Adam Frankl, Vice President of Marketing
Ravenflow
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