Sofea, the global leader in Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™, adds top sales executive to its executive management team to rapidly extend sales reach

April 9, 2007 Toronto, ON: Sofea Inc., fueling its growth in Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™ with industry-leading customers such as TD Canada Trust, CIBC, Bank Of Montreal, Deloitte, AT&T and RH Donnelly, today announced it has appointed an additional new key executive. This announcement is the third appointment to the Sofea executive team since the closure of its $6.25m financing in January, 2007.

Joining Sofea as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales is Robert L. Howatt. Mr. Howatt is a 25 year software professional, with deep experience of driving multi-million dollar software sales and geographic business expansion efforts. Mr. Howatt's tenure includes 4 years as a VP of Sales at Mercury Interactive (which was acquired in 2006 by HP Software), 7 years at Tivoli Systems (acquired by IBM), and senior sales executive positions at Revere Systems, Uniface Corporation, Ingres Corporation, Wang and IBM. Over the next 90 days, Mr. Howatt will be optimizing the sales process and extending Sofea's direct sales territories and indirect channels with certified resellers.

"Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™ is ready for prime time", said Mr. Howatt, "After working closely with Sofea as a partner of HP Software, I am pleased to lead Sofea in creating and managing a broader sales and distribution organization. These are exciting times in the development of Sofea's business and I am very pleased to join this strong team to help take its business to the next level.".

"I am very proud to add Bob to our executive team. His sales leadership and experience will be invaluable as we grow our business during 2007 and beyond," said Mr. David Nyland, President & CEO of Sofea Inc. "Bob has a directly relevant background, skills and experience and will have a deep and immediate positive impact on our business - I am very excited about our prospects for the future."

About Sofea
Sofea, a Gartner cool vendor, ignited the Requirements Definition revolution in 2004 with the introduction of its landmark Profesy™ solution for Visual Requirements Definition and Validation. Today, Sofea offers an expanded solution to support the emerging industry category entitled Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™ (RLA). Sofea's solutions accelerate key strategic areas of requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, and review, with inherent change management throughout the application life-cycle. Sofea enables modern IT organizations to eliminate rework, cost and schedule overrun, ensure application quality, and control business risk. Sofea is a global solution provider with office locations in North America and Europe. For more information on Sofea or Requirements Lifecycle Acceleration™, visit www.sofeainc.com.

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