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WebLayers Announces Ido Sarig as Strategic Advisor

Former VP of Technology Strategy for Mercury and Board Member of Infravio

Cambridge, MA, December 6, 2006 – WebLayers, the market leader for automated SOA Governance, today announced Ido Sarig has joined WebLayers as a Strategic Advisor. In this capacity, Ido will provide strategic guidance as WebLayers capitalizes on the rapidly growing market for automated governance solutions.

“WebLayers has a compelling vision about the role of governance in SOA and beyond,” said Sarig. “In my previous experience with companies in the governance space including Mercury, and Infravio, I’ve seen the critical need for a Policy Management Solution to extend governance across the entire SOA lifecycle. I am pleased to be part of this team driving the industry forward.” "We are extremely pleased that Ido Sarig, a proven leader and visionary within the enterprise software market, has joined as a Strategic Advisor,” said Gregg Bjork, CEO of WebLayers. “His experience and perspective on governance and next-generation technologies will be a perfect complement to the WebLayers team.”

Ido is a Venture Partner with Thomas Weisel Venture Partners focused on enterprise and infrastructure software. Prior to TWVP, Ido was Vice President of technology strategy for Mercury where he was charged with formulating the company's technology roadmap, and searching for and evaluating new technologies and business opportunities for Mercury. Under his leadership and direction, Mercury acquired Kintana, Appilog, Performant and Allerez in 2003 -2004. Sarig joined Mercury in 1990 as a software engineer and moved on to hold various management and executive positions over the past ten years. Past positions at Mercury include posts in the United States, Europe and Israel, including vice president of product marketing for the APM business unit, director of strategic alliances and director of European marketing. As vice president of product marketing for the APM business unit, he successfully launched Topaz, the first APM solution for real-time monitoring of a user's experience on the Web.

He was also a Board member of Infravio (now WebMethods), and served on the advisory board of Confluent Software (now Oracle).

About WebLayers
WebLayers is the market leader for automated SOA governance.

WebLayers Center™, the company’s flagship product, is a policy management solution that automates what has traditionally been a manual, labor intensive process of enforcing governance policies. In use today at many of the world’s largest companies and government agencies, WebLayers Center is the only solution to ensure compliance throughout the lifecycle which provides the necessary visibility and guidance to govern effectively.

WebLayers is also the founder and coordinator of The SOA Forum, an industry roundtable of executives who are mandated with the challenging mission of driving a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) within their organizations. The SOA Forum is celebrating over three years of successful and interactive collaboration between its members. Today the Forum includes over 1,000 members representing more than 350 organizations.

A private company founded in 2002, WebLayers is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information please visit www.weblayers.com.

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