MetaCarta Welcomes New Senior Director of Business Development to Help Continue Sales Growth

Cambridge, MA - March 13, 2006 - MetaCarta, Inc., a leading provider in geographic-based business intelligence, is pleased to announce that Noel O'Dwyer has joined its corporate team in Cambridge, MA as Senior Director of Business Development.

O'Dwyer is a seasoned alliances director who brings more than 15 years of experience in business development management for the software industry. His experience has included establishing and managing relationships with major companies in the software development market; and leveraging relationships to generate over $30M in incremental revenues. He comes directly from eCopy (Nashua, NH), a market leader in ad-hoc scanning software, where as the Director of Software Alliances he focused on building a 3rd Party Alliances Program to execute the company strategy. Previously, he was a Senior Strategic Alliances Manager for Rational Software (Lexington, MA); and held senior positions at Cayenne Software, Inc. and FPS Computing, Inc.

O'Dwyer holds a degree in Telecommunications and Computer Sciences, from Limerick University in Ireland.
"We are thrilled to have Noel join our corporate team here at MetaCarta," said Claudine Bianchi, VP of Marketing, MetaCarta. "He brings extensive high-level, relationship-building experience in the software industry, and will help MetaCarta strengthen alliances with key players in the search, geospatial, and content management industries."

About MetaCarta

MetaCarta, a leading provider of geographic intelligence, offers comprehensive analysis tools to enable better business decisions. Founded by a team of MIT researchers in 2001, MetaCarta provides groundbreaking technology that bridges the gap between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and text search. The company presents innovative solutions that improve decision-making by making it possible for customers to place documents on a map. The company is privately held, with offices in Cambridge, MA, Vienna, VA, and Houston, TX. To learn more about MetaCarta, please visit www.metacarta.com.

MetaCarta is a trademark of MetaCarta, Incorporated. All other product or corporate references may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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