SigmaQuest Names Bob Silver Vice President of Sales


Proven Executive Tapped to Drive Next Phase of Company's Growth

Hold for electronic and print release until Friday, November 11, 2005

SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 11, 2005--SigmaQuest(TM) Inc., the leading provider of software for visibility into product performance and quality throughout manufacturing and a product's lifecycle today announced that Bob Silver has joined the company as vice president of sales. Silver is charged with continuing to build up the company's expanding customer base, managing and building the company's growing direct and indirect sales organizations, and driving the next phase of the company's growth. He is reporting directly to SigmaQuest president and CEO, Nader Fathi.

Fathi noted, "Bob has the ideal background for his new role at SigmaQuest as he has worked closely with the many categories of OEM companies that desire SigmaQuest's solutions. Moreover, tapping Bob at this point in the company's growth, will help us to further ramp up our customer base at a rapid rate, while strengthening our global customer support infrastructure."

Silver bring 25 years of sales, leadership and channel development expertise from the semiconductor, telecom, computer and audio visual industries to SigmaQuest. Silver's experience comes from companies such as Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ: CDN) where he served as vice president of worldwide marketing for the Alta Business Unit and was responsible for corporate strategy, market development and demand creation, and later as vice president of marketing of Cadence's Design Services Division, marketing semiconductor designs to a broad range of technology industries. In other roles, Silver was vice president of sales/marketing at Compression Labs (San Jose, CA); vice president of marketing and business development at SiliconX; and general manager, Special Markets Division at Apple Computer (NASDAQ: AAPL). Silver has a bachelor of art's degree in business administration/computer science from Temple University, Philadelphia.

About SigmaQuest
SigmaQuest Inc. is an enterprise software company whose solutions provide unprecedented insight and actionable information to ensure product and process integrity, by collecting, aggregating, controlling and analyzing test and quality data. Its solutions enable global enterprises such as OEMs that design, manufacture and service a broad array of products ranging from wireless devices to pacemakers to fuel cells, to optimize product time-to-market, cost and quality. This is accomplished through personalized views of product quality information, pro-active alerts and comprehensive traceability - all in real time.

The company is headquartered at 2901 Tasman Drive, Suite 109, Santa Clara, CA 95054. It can also be reached at 408-654-9401, www.SigmaQuest.com.

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