deCarta Names Kevin Dowd Managing Director, Asia Pacific

deCarta Names Kevin Dowd Managing Director, Asia Pacific

April 24, 2007

Company opens Hong Kong and Shanghai offices in response to
burgeoning LBS market opportunity and customer interaction.


    SAN JOSE, Calif., April 24 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Reinforcing its presence in the Asia Pacific region,
deCarta, the leading supplier of software platforms and
services for the Location-Based Services (LBS) industry,
announced today that it has appointed Kevin Dowd as
Managing Director, Asia Pacific, and opened new offices in
Hong Kong and Shanghai, China.

    Based from deCarta's offices in Hong Kong, Dowd will
oversee OEM/ODM sales, customer relations, and technology
partner development in the rapidly-growing Personal
Navigation Device (PND), Internet mapping, and mobile
carrier LBS markets of the region, including Southeast
Asia, China, and Japan.

    "The Asia-Pacific Region represents an
increasingly significant portion of our growth," said
Mike Cottle, Vice President of Sales for deCarta. 
"The expansion of our presence through Kevin's
leadership, experience and reputation, provides an
extremely strong foundation from which to extend our sales
and technical support infrastructure to our Asia-Pacific
customers."

    Dowd comes to deCarta from Verilink Corporation, where
as Vice President Asia-Pacific he was responsible for
developing and managing operations throughout Asia for the
company's Voice over DSL (VoDSL) and Voice over Internet
Protocol (VoIP) Integrated Access Devices (IADs) and
IPDSLAMs products and services. Previously, he was Regional
Managing Director for Aethra Telecommunications Systems
where he was responsible for developing and managing
operations including production, sales and support
throughout the region. Dowd also held senior management
positions at Asialink Technolo-gies, Accord Networks, Inc.,
and Polycom Inc., where he built and managed the sales and
technical support organizations in the Asia-Pacific region
for the companies. 

    Dowd has a Bachelors of Science, Economics and
International Relations from London School of Economics and
Political Science, London, UK; a Masters of Science,
Economics, from University of Bristol, UK; and a Masters of
Philosophy, Economics, from University College London,
Development Planning Unit, UK and Jiaotong University
Shanghai.

    About deCarta

    deCarta is the leading geospatial software platform
that powers today's most successful Location-Based Services
(LBS) applications such as those deployed at Google Maps,
Ask.com, Verizon and Sprint. The company's unique, patented
technology is ideal for high volume LBS applications for use
in Internet, mobile, personal navigation and enterprise
applications where scalability, speed, and reliability are
vital. Its "Drill Down Server" geospatial
software platform, "Rich Map Engine" and Hosted
Web Service are preferred by application developers and
service providers who also want the flexibility to
customize map styles, utilize unique routing capabilities
and self-brand. deCarta customers and technology partners
include AND, Appello, Ask.com, ATX, Google, Hotels.com
Local Matters, Maps.com, Motorola, NAVTEQ, Networks In
Motion, Pharos, Rand McNally, Tele Atlas, TeleNav, and
Zillow. deCarta is privately held and headquartered in San
Jose, California with international offices in the UK and
China. For more information, please visit:
http://www.decarta.com .

    NOTE:  deCarta, the deCarta logo, Drill Down Server,
and Rich Map Engine are trademarks or registered trademarks
of deCarta in the United States and/or other countries. 


    For more information, please contact:

     Chris Blake
     MSR Communications
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     Email: [e-mail]

     Robert Young, Director
     Marketing Communications, deCarta
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]