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Mike Regan, VP Customer Service & Operations

KACE Names Mike Regan Vice President of Customer Service & Operations
Former Siebel, Sybase Executive Brings KACE Extensive Experience and Track Record of Building World-class Customer Services Organizations within Rapidly Growing Businesses

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – May 20, 2008 – KACE™, the leading systems management appliance company, today announced the appointment of Mike Regan as the company’s vice president of customer service and operations. Regan brings 25 years of experience in creating global, customer-focused organizations for a variety of high-growth companies. In the newly created position, Regan will be charged with ensuring that KACE’s customer support, training, and product fulfillment teams are aligned in providing customers and partners with world class services.

“We are excited to welcome Regan as the latest addition to our executive team,” said Rob Meinhardt, co-founder and CEO of KACE. “He brings a great breadth of knowledge and customer service experience to KACE, which will help to drive our leadership in the systems management market.”

Regan joins KACE from MarketLive, Inc., where he served as senior vice president of professional services for its mid-market e-commerce solutions. In that role, he revamped the professional services business and established standardized technical support processes to increase customer satisfaction and drive profitability. Prior to MarketLive, Mike held executive professional services management positions at Siebel Systems, Sybase, Datasweep, and Portal Software.

“KACE is offering midsized enterprises another choice in systems management—one that is easy-to-use, comprehensive, and affordable. This appliance-based approach is long overdue as witnessed by KACE’s explosive customer group,” said Regan. “These are exciting times for KACE and the industry, and I’m eager to be a part of it.”

About KACE™
KACE™ is the leading systems management appliance company. The award winning
KBOX™ family of appliances delivers easy-to-use, comprehensive systems management capabilities. KACE customers usually install in one day at one-third the cost of software alternatives.

KACE is headquartered in Mountain View, California. To learn more about KACE and its product offerings, please visit http://www.kace.com or call 1-877-MGMT-DONE.

Daniel Power, Managing Director

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Chris Moore, VP Sales

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Ken Sims, VP Business Development

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Wynn White, VP Marketing

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Rob Meinhardt, CEO

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Marty Kacin, President & CTO

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Dave Kloba, VP Engineering

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Brad Burkle, VP Channels

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Board of Directors

Robert Abbott

Since joining Norwest Venture Partners in 1998, Mr. Abbott has focused primarily on enterprise software and communication technologies. Mr. Abbott sits on the board of mBlox (formerly MobileSys), Occam Networks and ClariPhy and actively works with Open-Silicon. He has also worked with such companies as Embark, Escalate, mPower (acquired by Morningstar), Quantum Effect Devices (acquired by PMC-Sierra), Silicon Access, Summit Microelectronics and Think3. Mr. Abbott was formerly a member of the board of directors of Covigo (acquired by Symbol Technologies) and Resonext Communications (acquired by RF Micro Devices).

Mr. Abbott has nine years of operational experience in various roles, from engineering to marketing and product management. Before joining NVP, Mr. Abbott was at Silicon Graphics. Prior to Silicon Graphics, Mr. Abbott worked at IBM-ROLM Systems.

He holds B.S and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and an MBA, all from Stanford University.

Peter Solvik

Kace Expands Board of Directors and Secures Additional Funding
Sigma Partners and Pete Solvik, Former Cisco CIO, Back KACE
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 25, 2005 - KACE, creator of a family of turnkey IT automation appliances, today announced that it has added Pete Solvik, former senior vice president and CIO of Cisco Systems, to its Board of Directors and secured an additional $3 million in funding. Top venture capital firm, Sigma Partners (over $1 billion under management), led the financing round with additional participation and support from private investors. The new investment will support the company's efforts to meet the growing demand and launch of innovative new products in the field of IT automation.

KACE is led by CEO, Rob Meinhardt, former vice president of marketing at mobile computing pioneer, AvantGo, Inc., now a Sybase subsidiary. In addition to Meinhardt, KACE's Board of Directors includes KACE founder Marty Kacin and Pete Solvik of Sigma Partners. Prior to founding KACE and joining the board, Kacin co-founded and served as CTO at AvantGo. Solvik served as CIO at Cisco from 1994 -- 2001, was named to CIO Magazine's "CIO 100" four times, and was chosen as one of the "25 most powerful executives in Networking" by Network World.

"We believe that this round of investment reflects an important endorsement of our company and our product strategy--to deliver the highest-quality appliance coupled with superior customer service to ensure the greatest value per IT dollar spent," said Rob Meinhardt, CEO, KACE. "Pete's support coupled with his reputation as one Americas great CIO innovators speaks to the important benefits that KACE is bringing to its customers."

"Businesses now more than ever depend on their IT infrastructure to keep their businesses productive. Yet, IT organizations are faced with fewer financial and human resources to get the job done," said Pete Solvik, managing director, Sigma Partners. "KACE captured my attention with its fresh approach to this problem. They resolve the resource and cost issues with comprehensive yet affordable products that improve an IT organization's ability to efficiently and securely manage their infrastructure."

About Sigma Partners
Sigma Partners, a high technology venture capital firm with over a billion dollars under management, helps entrepreneurs transform ideas into substantial, profitable businesses. Sigma's partners have experience as successful CEOs, entrepreneurs and technologists. Their deep operating and technical insight helps build teams and strategies that produce sustainable value and successful outcomes. Sigma tends towards early stage investments because of the value that they can bring to the process of building teams, strategies and markets. Some of the many successful Sigma Partners investments over their 20 year history include Cascade Communications, Clarify, Electronic Arts, GeoTel, Internet Security Systems, Octel, MIPS, Novellus, Verifone, Vignette and Wellfleet. www.sigmapartners.com

About KACE
KACE is a privately-held technology company focused on developing innovative turnkey software distribution solutions. Its KBOX™ product line makes IT automation more accessible for more companies through unparalleled ease-of-use, comprehensive solution capabilities and effective pricing. KACE is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has an office in Denver, Colorado. To learn more about KACE and its product offerings, please visit www.kace.com or call 1-888-522-3638.

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