Aligo Names Former Vicinity Executive to Top Leadership Post; Emerick M. Woods Named President and CEO

Aligo Names Former Vicinity Executive to Top Leadership Post; Emerick M. Woods Named President and CEO New Chief Executive Brings Vast Experience and a Proven Tack Record to Advance Global Leader of Mobile Field Force Applications SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Aligo, Inc., a global leader in mobile field force software solutions, today announced Emerick M. Woods has been appointed its Chief Executive Officer as of January 4, 2005. Mr. Woods, who will also join the company's board of directors, will replace Mr. Robert Smith, who has left the company to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Woods will be responsible for leading Aligo into the future - including executing an aggressive growth and market leadership strategy based on delivering new products and services, continued revenue growth, increasing market share, and establishing new channels. Woods has managed and founded several early stage high technology companies, held numerous executive positions, and, consulting positions at McKinsey and Company and Booz Allen & Hamilton. Mr. Woods has most recently been working closely with a leading venture capital firm to reposition, develop sales and growth strategies, and launch early seed stage companies. From 1997 to 2001, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Vicinity Corporation, a publicly traded company where he completed its initial public offering and successfully raised over $140 million. At Vicinity, he implemented a turnaround strategy that refocused the company from a content syndication company to an enterprise application service provider becoming the leading provider of enterprise-class location-based services. While at Vicinity, Woods increased annualized sales from $1 million to nearly $25 million in less than 3 years. "I am very pleased to be joining Aligo at such an important and exciting time," said Mr. Woods. "Aligo possesses a compelling and unique vision, strong product and technology, an outstanding team and a demonstrated ability to execute. I look forward to working with this dynamic team whose dedication, tenacity and hard work have led to the company's success to date. Having begun to implement a growth strategy that leverages its unparalleled mobile technology coupled with location-based services and vertical industry expertise within the large and growing field force markets, Aligo is well positioned for success. We're going to continue to concentrate our energies on delivering cutting-edge mobile technology, strengthening our relationships with our customers and vendors and creating value for our shareholders." In a companion release, Aligo announced today the acquisition of H2 Technologies, an Atlanta-based company with deep industry expertise and sophisticated mobile solutions for service and specialty contractors. Additionally, former H2 Technologies CEO, John McCarthy, has been named Vice President of Sales and will spearhead Aligo operations in Georgia. "Emerick brings a proven track record of transforming companies and creating value for customers and shareholders. In particular, his experience at Vicinity delivering location-based solutions through an application service provider model make him a great fit for Aligo," said David Crowder, General Partner of Thomas Weisel Venture Partners. "We are very excited to have Emerick join us as Aligo's CEO and are confident that Emerick will lead Aligo in expanding its presence in the marketplace as well as executing on our growth strategies." About Aligo Aligo, the global leader in mobile field force management solutions for services industries, provides GPS-based time, job, dispatch and location tracking capabilities to reduce payroll, overtime and administrative costs while increasing the productivity of field employees. Aligo's mobile field force applications are based on the award-winning Omni Mobile Platform that ensures availability and speed, standards-based security and delivers scalability while accurately tracking and managing field employees and assets. Aligo empowers service industries such as HVAC, installation, security, electrical, landscaping, construction and building trades with timely, reliable, secure data and integrated transaction capabilities needed to take productivity to new heights. Worldwide customers include Sun Microsystems, Acme Mechanical, City of Nagahama, ChoicePoint, Remedy Intelligent Staffing, Talbot Electric, State of Massachusetts, Inter-Tel and Bristol Myers Squibb. Source: Aligo, Inc. CONTACT: Corinne Sklar of Aligo, Inc., +1-415-593-8200, or press@aligo.com Web site: http://www.aligo.com/ ------- Profile: International Entertainment