Press Release

ICEsoft Names Rod Charko Vice President Marketing and Steve Maryka Chief Technology Officer
Industry veterans bring technology and marketing expertise to ICEsoft executive team

CALGARY, Alberta – February 2, 2004 – ICEsoft Technologies Inc., the world’s leading provider of Java browser and Java Web access software, today announced the appointments of Rod Charko as vice president of marketing and Steve Maryka as chief technology officer. Both positions report directly to Brian McKinney, president and CEO.

As vice president of marketing, Charko will focus on further strengthening the company’s leadership position by overseeing the company’s corporate marketing, business planning and strategic growth initiatives.

A seasoned and successful entrepreneur, Charko has extensive prior experience in marketing operations, capital investment and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining ICEsoft, he was an investment director with BDC Venture Capital, a $500M early stage Venture Capital fund with investments in ICEsoft. At the BDC, he participated in over $100M in seed and venture capital financings in the high tech sector. Prior to the BDC Charko was director of marketing and product management at MetroNet Communications where he managed the development and roll-out of data services from MetroNet’s start up phase through IPO in 1997 and ultimately to acquisition by AT&T in 1999. Charko holds a masters degree in business administration from the University of Western Ontario, as well as a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering.

Steve Maryka spearheads ICEsoft’s technology and product vision, which he is directing toward a service-oriented architecture. With Brian McKinney, Maryka co-founded AudeSi Technologies (Calgary, Alberta) and served as its vice president of technology, where he led Java tool development for Internet appliances. After AudeSi was acquired by embedded software powerhouse Wind River, Maryka was a principle technologist there, working on embedded Java, device management, and high availability technologies. Prior to AudeSi, Steve was president of Jade Solutions (Calgary, Alberta), which developed software products for the modeling, and simulation of telecommunications networks. During his time at Jade, Steve engaged with Nortel Networks as the chief software architect for the world's first commercial embedded Java telephone. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Victoria (Victoria, British Columbia).
“The considerable experience Rod and Steve bring to the table, including their collective ability to map out technology and business strategies, is a boon to ICEsoft and the perfect complement to our existing management team”, said Brian McKinney, ICEsoft president and CEO. “Steve brings a wealth of technology foresight, and Rod is exceptionally qualified to help the organization fully capitalize on a rapidly growing market.”

About ICEsoft

ICEsoft Technologies Inc. is the world's leading provider of Java browser and Java Web access software for enterprise applications, embedded systems and Web services. ICEsoft and its ICEreader® and ICEbrowser® brands are well known in the JAVA development community. Headquartered in Calgary, Canada, ICEsoft has customers in over 35 countries and is on the Web at www.icesoft.com.

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ICEsoft Technologies Inc.
403-663-3322
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