Loquendo - the global company leader in speech technology - today announced the Appointment of its new Chief Executive Officer, Marco Romagnoli.

The Board of Director of Loquendo has appointed Mr. Marco Romagnoli as its new CEO effective April 8th, 2004. He will also assume the role of Managing Director.

Marco holds a Dr. Eng. degree from the Politecnico of Milan, Italy, and brings to Loquendo several years of experience in the Telecommunications arena.

Prior to his Loquendo appointment, Marco worked for over 12 years at Telecom Italia's R&D, being in charge of responsibilities related to CCS7 and ISDN infrastructures development in Italy. In this time frame he also served as chairman of various international standards bodies.

From 1986 Marco held General Manager positions within Telecom Italia Group Companies such as TELEO, which for the first time launched advanced Voice Processing and Electronic Messaging services in the Italian Market, and SARITEL, leader in the Value Added Services and Internet Data Center in Italy.

In 1996 Marco took the responsibility of a new Telecom Italia Business Unit, which launched a wide range of ASP broadband services for vertical market segments, including Finance, Public Administrations, Tourism & Transportation. Finally, he was put in charge of the Strategic Partnerships within Telecom Italia, where he developed initiatives with IT leaders as IBM, Microsoft, HP/Compaq, etc., and launched the first Telecom Italia Business Partner Program for IT "third parties".

The broad management experience that Marco brings to Loquendo will be of particular value in growing the Company technological leadership and empowering its commercial reach, both internationally and in the Italian market. Marco's energy and customer focus will be devoted to further improve Loquendo's well-established and growing position among the market leaders in Speech Technologies.

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years R&D expertise, Loquendo is at the forefront of the global speech technologies market. Its high-quality, high-performance technologies (Loquendo TTS - text to speech, Loquendo Embedded TTS, Loquendo ASR - automatic speech recognition, Loquendo Speech Server, Loquendo Speaker Verification) and platforms guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 15 languages and 33 voices - with more coming soon.
From its headquarters in Turin, Italy, Loquendo deploys technologies that power over 2,000,000 calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets throughout the world.
For more information, visit www.loquendo.com.