Fanfare Appoints Tom Ryan as CEO

Software Industry Veteran Brings More Than 20 Years of Experience and a Successful Track Record as a CEO

Mountain View, California - June 26, 2006 -The Fanfare Group, Inc., delivering world-class testing solutions for companies developing high-tech equipment, today announced the appointment of Tom Ryan as chief executive officer (CEO). Also announced today was the launch of Fanfare and the company's flagship product, FanfareSVT™. (See separate press release-"Fanfare Simplifies and Accelerates Test Automation for High-Tech Equipment Companies.")

Prior to joining Fanfare, Ryan was president and CEO of Actional Corporation, a leading provider of Web services management (WSM) software that was recently acquired by Progress Software. Ryan brings more than 20 years of enterprise software experience, strong leadership credentials, and a proven track record of success to his new post at Fanfare.

As CEO, Ryan will be responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of Fanfare, and will focus on driving widespread market adoption of Fanfare's breakthrough test automation software products, including flagship product FanfareSVT. Ryan succeeds Fanfare founder, Kingston Duffie, who will now focus on his role as chief technology officer (CTO). Tom's arrival fulfills Kingston's original vision of bringing in a world-class enterprise software leader to accelerate the development and growth of the equipment testing market.

"The equipment testing market is a multi-billion dollar greenfield opportunity," said Tom Ryan, newly appointed CEO. "Fanfare has the right combination of products, technology, people, and vision to help equipment manufacturers gain control of their product release cycles and bring quality products to market more quickly. I am looking forward to working with the team at Fanfare to lead the growth of this exciting new market segment."

"Tom's successful track record of running and managing enterprise software companies makes him the right leader for Fanfare," said Kingston Duffie, Fanfare founder and CTO. "We are extremely pleased to have him join as our new chief executive officer at this time when our products are experiencing rapid and accelerating adoption by the world's leading equipment manufacturers."

Ryan led the October 2004 merger of Actional with Westbridge, which set the stage for the recent acquisition of Actional Corporation by Progress Software. Prior to Westbridge, Ryan was senior vice president of global field operations at Kintana, a leading provider of IT governance and management software that was acquired by Mercury Interactive. Ryan also held an executive management position at Manugistics Group where he grew the company's software and services revenues to more than $200 million annually. Ryan has also served as senior vice president at Talus, and was vice president of North American regional sales for Cadence Design Systems where here grew revenues to $500 million annually. He has held engineering and management positions at Parker Hannifin Corp. and Grumman Aerospace.

About The Fanfare Group

Fanfare is revolutionizing how high-tech equipment vendors manage product release cycles. By combining test development, execution, documentation, and automation into a single step, the company offers the first commercially-developed test automation software for validating the functionality of high-tech equipment. Using the FanfareSVT™ family of products, quality assurance teams improve customer satisfaction and reduce QA costs. Founded in 2004, Fanfare is a private company based in Mountain View, California, with venture backing from Matrix Partners and Redpoint Ventures. For more information visit www.fanfaregroup.com.

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