Ian MacLeod Joins Qatalyst Group as Partner and Head of Global Software and Services...

Ian MacLeod Joins Qatalyst Group as Partner and Head of Global Software and
Services Investment Banking

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Qatalyst Group, the technology-focused
merchant banking boutique, announced today that Ian W. MacLeod has joined the
Firm as a Partner and Head of Global Software and Services Investment Banking.
Mr. MacLeod, most recently Managing Director and Global Head of Software
Investment Banking for Goldman, Sachs & Co., will be based at Qatalyst's San
Francisco headquarters and will advise technology companies and private
investment firms on mergers & acquisitions, financings and strategic
investments in the software and services sectors.

Frank P. Quattrone, Chief Executive Officer of Qatalyst Group said: "Ian is a
world class advisor with deep knowledge of the software sector, a broad
network of relationships and extensive transaction experience. He has advised
on many of the software industry's largest and most significant mergers &
acquisitions over the past several years, and we are delighted to welcome him
to Qatalyst."

Mr. MacLeod, 44, has more than 18 years of investment banking and principal
investing experience at Goldman Sachs, ABS Capital Partners, Alex. Brown and
First Union Capital Markets. His transaction and client experience includes
Adobe's $3.6 billion acquisition of Macromedia, the $1.0 billion sale of
Altiris to Symantec, BEA Systems' acquisition of Plumtree Software and BEA's
subsequent $8.5 billion sale to Oracle, Business Objects' $6.3 billion sale to
SAP AG, Mercury Interactive's $4.9 billion sale to HP, Microsoft's $1.2
billion acquisition of FAST Search and Transfer, the $1.7 billion sale of
Opsware to HP, Siebel Systems' $5.9 billion sale to Oracle, Siemens' $3.5
billion acquisition of UGS, and the $13.5 billion sale of Veritas to Symantec,
among others.

Launched in March 2008, Qatalyst's clients have included Google, which it
advised on Microsoft's $45 billion attempted hostile takeover of Yahoo!,
Brocade Communications Systems, which it advised on restructuring and
completing the $2.6 billion acquisition of Foundry Networks and Data Domain
which it advised in its pending $1.7 billion acquisition by NetApp.

Qatalyst Group is a technology-focused merchant banking boutique headquartered
in San Francisco, California. Qatalyst Partners, its investment banking
business, provides high-end merger & acquisition and corporate finance advice
to technology companies globally. Qatalyst Capital Partners, its investing
business, makes selective principal investments, typically alongside leading
venture capital and private investment firms.

Qatalyst Partners provides high quality, independent advice to the senior
management teams and boards of the technology industry's established and
emerging leaders on strategic matters crucial to their growth and success.
Qatalyst's advisors combine a broad network of relationships with deep sector
knowledge and seasoned M&A expertise to deliver a superior, senior level of
service for clients who value experience, judgment, candor and insight. In
addition to merger & acquisition advice, Qatalyst Partners employs its team's
extensive corporate finance and capital markets experience to advise companies
on capital structure and capital raising alternatives, and will selectively
raise private capital for clients. While it will not engage in public
securities research, sales, trading or brokerage activities, Qatalyst Partners
may participate as advisor or underwriter in clients' public offerings.

SOURCE Qatalyst Group

Sally Palmer of Qatalyst Group, +1-415-399-7897, sally.palmer@qatalyst.com