- EDS’s Vice President and COO Joins sales-i as a Non- Executive Board Member -

Solihull, UK - August 18th, 2008 - sales-i, (www.sales-i.com) the real-time sales acceleration service for front line sales people today announced that Martin Blackburn, EDS’s Vice President and COO has joined its non-executive board.

Martin is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Europe Middle East and Africa for EDS. EDS is a leading global technology services company that provides information technology and business process outsourcing services to around 2000 clients worldwide. EDS employees approximately 140,000 staff in 65 countries. Around 35,000 of those are employed in the EMEA region. Martin sits on EDS’s EMEA board.

Prior to this Martin spent 10 years at Logica where he held a number of roles, culminating in joining the operational board as CEO of the Global Outsourcing business (Global Service Delivery). This business encompassed 10,000 staff across 18 countries and included the company’s most complex programmes.

Martin’s career has been involved primarily in: the “turnaround” of problem business units, projects and customers; transformation and the building of new enterprises; M&A and integration activities. At the core of these activities has been: strategic insight, leadership, diagnosis, formulation of change programmes; and execution. Martin has spent a great deal of time with customers at all levels, particularly in the sales and delivery of outsourcing work. Martin is familiar with India and the Philippines, where he has spent a great deal of time over the last 4 years establishing Logica’s offshore low cost delivery centres.

Prior to joining Logica, Martin was part of the founding management team of the Systems Integration and Agency business Parity. He also operated in various business management and technical roles for GEC’S Systems Integration business, Elliot Automation Space and Advanced Military Systems (EASAMS).

As non-exec board member of sales-i Martin will work closely with the founding partners, Paul Black and Kevin McGirl, using his varied industry experience to advise, overlook and assist in the implementation of the company’s worldwide sales and marketing expansion endeavours.

“I am delighted to have the opportunity to influence such a successful SaaS start-up through the early years of development and steer them to take advantage of the huge market opportunity that faces them. If the first six months are anything to go by, we can look forward to sales-i becoming a household name in markets including office supplies, industrial and automotive.”

Paul Black is sales-i’s co-founder and commented, “My co-founder Kevin McGirl and I would hardly be described as inexperienced in bringing sales intelligence solutions to market but there is little to compare with the vast industry experience and success that some of our non-exec board members bring to the table. We are thrilled that our on-demand sales intelligence proposition was compelling enough to secure their involvement in the company and we look forward to leveraging their combined knowledge to make this the world class success that we know it can be.”

To find out more about sales-i and what it can do for your sales business, visit www.sales-i.com.

About sales-i

sales-i© is a real-time sales acceleration service for frontline sales people. Through sales-i, sales professionals are empowered with real-time customer buying behaviour alerts which are delivered by email and text messaging, empowering them to make better informed, personalised and faster decisions which maximise repeat sales and reduce customer slippage.

sales-i is a true Software-as-a-Service solution charged on a per-user, per-month, basis.

Sales and marketing organisations rely on sales-i to accelerate their sales intelligence. This delivers protected customer share, better margins, visible cross-sell and up-sell opportunities and increased customer buying behaviour know-how resulting in more intelligent, profitable selling.

sales-i is a privately held company with headquarters in Solihull, UK. For more information about sales-i visit www.sales-i.com or email tellmemore@sales-i.com

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