July 23, 2008  |  VizSeek Names Brian P. Phillips CEO

"Shape Search Engine" Taps Seasoned Technology Executive To Support Company Expansion

NEW YORK – July 23, 2008 – VizSeek®, a shape search engine that allows people to search using drawings and diagrams, today announced the appointment of Brian P. Phillips to the position of chief executive officer. The addition of Mr. Phillips to the VizSeek management team will help the company meet the growing demand for its shape-based search engine technology and extend it to solve more business problems. As CEO, Mr. Phillips will oversee all company operations and lead key business development initiatives. He joins VizSeek from Zurich Ventures, where he was founder, managing partner and interim CEO.

"Brian significantly strengthens our management team, with his technology industry expertise and his proven track record of leading early-stage companies," said Nainesh Rathod, chairman of VizSeek. "We're at a pivotal stage of expansion and know that Brian's support will prove invaluable as we look to fulfill an increasing demand for shape-based search solutions worldwide."

At Zurich Ventures, Mr. Phillips served as business consultant for numerous early-stage technology companies. Before founding Zurich Ventures, Mr. Phillips was CEO and president of Tonic Software, a top B2B management software provider acquired by Symantec. Previously he held top sales and business development management positions with IBM Tivoli Systems, a leading provider of enterprise network and systems management software; and Teubner, a global leader in mainframe connectivity solutions. Mr. Phillips also founded two other successful start-up companies and served as a management consultant with Ernst & Young.

"Imagine the kind of innovation possible when people can describe the shape of their ideas to millions of others by using the electronic equivalent of gestures or scribbling on the back of a cocktail napkin," said Mr. Phillips. "VizSeek is where creativity meets precision. I look forward to working with the VizSeek team to bring the benefits of shape search to all kinds of people."

Search engines have revolutionized how people and businesses find and use information. But whole sectors of the global economy – from mechanical engineers and biochemists to architects and individual inventors – lack technologies that can search on shapes, which is an integral part of how these sectors use and store information.

Unlike traditional search engines, which use text or pixels in photos to find matches among shapes, VizSeek can search for shapes by using drawings to achieve more precise results. The VizSeek search engine works with everything from simple 2-D drawings to more complex 3-D renderings – even delivering matches when only a single angle of the diagram is provided. For example, a mechanical engineer could use VizSeek to locate component parts for a new product that he is designing. Or a multimedia artist could use VizSeek to search for designs available in the public domain.

For more information on VizSeek, visit www.vizseek.com.

About VizSeek
VizSeek is the leading provider of shape-based search technology. The company's mission is to allow the world's visual information to be found using shapes, diagrams and drawings. VizSeek solutions are currently used by top government agencies and industrial leaders. The privately held company is headquartered in New York City with a development center at the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Indiana. More information on VizSeek and its products is available at www.vizseek.com.

* VizSeek is a registered trademark of Imaginestics, LLC (DBA VizSeek). All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.