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Cendura Corporation, the leader in IT governance solutions for enterprises, today announced that Stephen Nicol was named Vice President of Field Operations, and will direct the company's sales initiatives as well as professional services and support.

"Steve brings a strong entrepreneurial spirit to Cendura from his experience as co-founder of Pumatech, and is well experienced in building world-class sales organizations," commented Pavan Nigam, CEO, Cendura. "With strong management and strategic skills, he's a great addition to our executive team at this critical juncture."

Most recently, Mr. Nicol was Senior Vice President of Sales and Support at Accela Corporation, a provider of government enterprise management software solutions, where he was responsible for worldwide revenue and customer support. He was co-founder and Senior Vice President of Sales for Pumatech, Inc., where he grew revenue from zero to $40 million dollars. Mr. Nicol managed Pumatech through a successful IPO, resulting in a market capitalization of $4 billion dollars, and during his tenure, Pumatech became a leading supplier to the Fortune 1000.

Prior to that, he was Director of Far East Sales for Systemsoft Corporation and OEM Sales Manager for Western Digital Corporation. He began his career as a sales representative for Hewlett Packard Corporation.

A graduate of Princeton University, in 2000, the Harvard Business School Alumnae Association named him as "Entrepreneur of the Year."

ABOUT CENDURA

Cendura is the leading IT governance solutions provider. With support for enterprise platforms running AIX, HP/UX, Linux, Windows, and Solaris and over 130 customizable Blueprints of commercially available applications, operating systems, databases, Web servers, application servers, and messaging systems, the Cohesion(TM) Foundation delivers the most comprehensive and heterogeneous platform available to business for discovering, understanding, and controlling distributed, business-critical applications and services. The Cohesion Suite is the foundation to leverage ITIL processes, simplify change management, correct application configuration drift, align business services, enforce IT governance policies, improve business continuity, ensure audit and compliance, enable migration and consolidation planning, accelerate proactive forensics, and intelligently configure services for dynamic IT environments. Cendura customers are members of the Global 2000 and include VeriSign, Inc., Homestore, Inc. and Medtronic. A privately held company, Cendura is funded by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Crosslink Capital and NeoCarta. For more information about Cendura, call 866.263.3911 or visit www.cendura.com. Cendura, Cohesion and Blueprint are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cendura Corporation.

Media Contact: Francie Coulter Cendura Corporation 650.625.5517 francie.coulter@cendura.com