Paul Salazar Appointed VP of Customer and Community Development

Veteran of Open Source Marketing to Expand Growing Community of Coghead Developers

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Oct. 16, 2007 – Coghead today announced the appointment of Paul Salazar as vice president of customer and community development. Bringing 20 years of experience in marketing, sales, and engineering, Salazar will manage the growth and development of Coghead’s developer and user communities. Currently, more than 25,000 do-it-yourselfers have signed up to use Coghead’s web-based application development service to create their own business applications.

Prior to joining Coghead, Salazar served as senior director of corporate marketing at SpikeSource, where he managed marketing communications, lead generation, and PR for the open source solutions provider. Prior to SpikeSource, Salazar was director of global marketing programs for open source software leader Red Hat where his responsibilities included channel, OEM, and services marketing, and an appointment as EMEA marketing director. Before Red Hat, Salazar held positions at Cygnus Solutions, a pioneer in open source software tools, ITT Cannon, and Ampex Corporation.

In addition to corporate management, Salazar has taught marketing and strategy courses at Stanford University and Menlo College. Salazar holds a bachelor of science degree and a master of science degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from Stanford University.

“Paul’s community-building experience and his open-source industry insights will help us engage our communities to better understand how customers are using our service and how Coghead can help them meet their business goals,” said Paul McNamara, Coghead CEO. “His ideas and programs already have our developer community excited.”

Coghead’s do-it-yourself web-based development service provides a simple, powerful way for tech-savvy businesspeople to create, manage, and share custom web-based applications. Today more than 25,000 registered developers use the Coghead platform to create their own applications in a matter of hours or days, at a fraction of the cost of large packaged applications or custom development projects. To learn more about Coghead and register for the Coghead service, go to http://www.coghead.com/.

About Coghead

Coghead provides a radically new way for tech-savvy businesspeople to create, manage, and deploy their own web-based applications. The Coghead service enables the users closest to a business challenge to create customized solutions in hours or days at a fraction of the cost of large packaged applications or custom development projects. Founded in May 2003 and funded by American Capital, El Dorado Ventures, and SAP, Coghead is staffed by industry veterans, serial entrepreneurs, and some of the brightest minds in software. For more information, visit the company’s web site at http://www.coghead.com/ and the company’s blog at http://blog.coghead.com/.