Similarity Systems Appoints New Global
Head of Sales & Marketing

Dublin, Ireland November 30, 2005: Similarity Systems, the leading provider of business-focused data quality solutions, has appointed Aidan Gallagher as executive vice president of sales and marketing. Aidan is a non executive director of a number of international IT companies and was formerly executive vice president, global business development at Baltimore Technologies.

In his new role Aidan heads Similarity Systems’ worldwide business development and marketing efforts. He and his team are responsible for sales strategy and execution, and for directing the company’s marketing initiatives across all geographies.

“It’s great to be able to attract an executive of Aidan’s experience and expertise to Similarity Systems,” said Garry Moroney, chief executive officer, Similarity Systems. “Aidan will bring his considerable experience to bear as we expand our customer base across the North America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific.”

Aidan has more than 25 years experience in the information technology and communications (ITC) sector. At Baltimore Technologies he oversaw revenue growth from less than $500K to over $100M in just four years.

“With its unique business-focused approach to solving the pervasive problem of poor data quality, Similarity Systems has already attracted significant numbers of Global 2000 customers. Following the acquisition of Evoke software in July we are now in an even better position to develop the untapped data quality market with a solution that caters to the needs of both business and IT professionals,” said Aidan Gallagher, executive vice president of sales and marketing, Similarity Systems.

Similarity Systems’ data quality and data profiling products, ATHANOR™ and AXIO™, offer the industry’s most complete platform for successful planning and execution of information quality initiatives. ATHANOR is the only data quality product that truly enables business knowledge workers to take control of enterprise-wide data enhancement and cleansing initiatives. At the same time Similarity Systems AXIO is established as the leading data profiling solution, with the broadest functionality in its class and a strong record of delivering value for customers.

The two products provide a platform for tackling data quality at multiple points across the organization while maintaining centralized control and management of data quality standards. Together Similarity Systems AXIO and ATHANOR span data quality projects from start to finish and provide a bridge between the business and IT professionals involved.

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