September 11, 2008  |  VizSeek Names Bob Harrington VP of Marketing

"Shape Search Engine" Company Adds Seasoned Software Executive to Address Growing Market

NEW YORK – September 11, 2008 – VizSeek®, a shape search engine that allows people to search using drawings and diagrams, today announced the appointment of Robert J. Harrington to the position of Vice President of Marketing. The addition of Mr. Harrington 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 VP of Marketing, Mr. Harrington will oversee both marketing communications and product marketing. He joins VizSeek from Oversight Systems, a SOX compliance software company, where he headed marketing.

"Bob significantly strengthens our management team with his software industry expertise and his proven track record with both early-stage companies and billion dollar technology companies," said Brian P. Phillips, CEO of VizSeek. "We're at a pivotal stage of significant expansion and Bob's contributions will prove invaluable as we look to fulfill an increasing demand for shape-based search solutions worldwide."

Previously Mr. Harrington headed up Oracle's applications field marketing organization. Prior to Oracle he was VP of Marketing at Intergraph/Quintus, a pioneer in the CRM market, and was the partner in charge of the Silicon Valley operations consulting practice of Arthur Young & Company (now Ernst & Young). Mr. Harrington has also held senior marketing positions at REMEC, a public wireless infrastructure company, and OrderFusion, a B2B sell side e-commence company. Mr. Harrington has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. and an MBA from Stanford.

"VizSeek's precise shape search technology allows a designer of new products to quickly mine the vast corporate asset of legacy designs," said Mr. Harrington. "In addition, it has created the first open shape networking community. Users worldwide can generate content and communicate using the universal language of shape to create new products faster, reduce costs and expand opportunities."

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.