Thunderhead CEO is named Technology CEO of the Year finalist for the UK Technology Innovation and Growth 2007 Awards

London, UK. Tuesday, 30 January, 2007.

Thunderhead, the leading provider of enterprise communications technology, today announced that its CEO, Glen Manchester, has been selected as a finalist for the Technology CEO of the Year - Private Firm Award category at the 2007 UK Technology Innovation & Growth Awards. The award winners will be announced at the ninth annual UK Technology Innovation & Growth Awards ceremony and dinner at the London Hilton on Park Lane on March 13th.

The UK Technology Innovation and Growth 2007 Awards recognise those individuals and organisations that drive the success of the UK's fastest growing technology companies. The winners have gone through an exhaustive process of investigation by an esteemed panel of judges and, over last eight years, these awards have become one of the most coveted accolades within the industry. The Technology CEO of the Year - Private Firm Award recognises a CEO who has shown exceptional leadership and been instrumental in transforming or driving the business forward. This award seeks to recognise an individual who displays strategic vision, inspirational leadership and a real instinct for the business, its market and growth opportunities.

Founded by Manchester in 2001, UK-based Thunderhead enables industry-leading organisations, such as Morgan Stanley, Alliance & Leicester, BUPA, UBS and Lehman Brothers to bring greater automation and control to their business communications processes. Thunderhead’s software reduces the cost, risk, and time associated with creating and maintaining both batch transactional documentation and ad hoc correspondence on an enterprise scale.

Manchester is widely recognised as one of the pioneers in the global document generation marketplace having previously founded Geneva Digital, his first foray into developing a new generation of document solutions for the Financial Services sector. Geneva Digital saw eight successful and profitable years before it was acquired by Canada-based public company, Xenos Corporation. Glen subsequently served as CEO of Xenos before returning to the UK to found Thunderhead, which has realized 100 percent year-on-year revenue growth and strong profitability since the launch of its first commercial product in 2003.

“I am delighted to be nominated for this award and very fortunate to be supported by an exceptional management team.” said Glen Manchester, CEO of Thunderhead. “Being recognized by UK Technology Innovation & Growth Awards is a great start to the year as we continue to lead the enterprise communications market with ambitious plans to scale our operations worldwide in 2007.”

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