Gomez Opens New Full-Service Office in China to Directly Support Burgeoning Asian Internet Market

Gomez Opens New Full-Service Office in China to Directly Support Burgeoning Asian Internet Market

July 24, 2006

Internet Application Performance Management Company Makes Substantial Software Development, Sales and Support Commitment to Region

    BEIJING, July 24 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- In a quest to
help customers aggressively seize fertile business
opportunities in Asia, Internet application performance
management leader Gomez, Inc., today announced it has
opened a new full-service office in Beijing.  The facility
will initially employ engineering and product development
staff, with direct sales and support staff to be hired in
the coming months to serve the entire Southeast Asia
region.

    Headed by Yuan Cheng, general manager of Gomez China
Operations, the new office will triple Gomez's product
development personnel by year-end and position the company
to steadily build direct sales, service and other staff to
serve customers such as eBay and MSN.  The economy of
China, the business hub of Southeast Asia, has been growing
at an average of 10 percent annually.  The country has more
than 123 million Internet users, more than 77 million of
whom are on broadband, and potential growth is staggering
with 90 percent of the population still unwired. 

    Gomez CEO Jaime Ellertson said the entire company is
eager to help new and existing customers achieve peak
Internet performance in Asia.  "It's a rapid growth
market in an ever-flattening world and offers us access to
Beijing's prodigious pool of engineering talent,"
Ellertson said.  "Our expanding infrastructure and new
capabilities for product development, sales and customer
service will be essential for companies entering and
expanding in this region."

    Yuan Cheng's local knowledge, experience, customer
focus and engineering pedigree make him the ideal leader of
Gomez's Asian effort, according to Ellertson. Cheng is a
graduate of the number one engineering school in China,
Tsinghua University, and holds a doctorate degree from MIT.
 Prior to joining Gomez, Cheng managed the BroadVision
Commerce product at BroadVision, establishing an offshore
engineering team for that company.   

    "Optimal Internet application performance is
critical for companies to maximize revenues, minimize
costs, reduce risk and sustain a strong brand," said
Yuan Cheng.  "Gomez's commitment to Beijing and Asia
will make these goals achievable."  The Gomez China
office is located at:  Suite B206, Jingmeng High-Tech
Building No. 5-2 Shangdi Donglu, Haidian district, Beijing,
China  100085.  Tel.: [phone].  The company is
recruiting for a number of engineering, software
development and technical support positions as posted at: (
http://www.gomez.com/company/careers.html ).  Qualified
candidates are invited to send resumes to
[e-mail] . 

    About Gomez

    Gomez is the leading provider of web application
performance management solutions.  Utilized by 500
companies worldwide, including 8 of the top 10 most visited
sites worldwide, 6 of the top 10 retailers, 8 of the top 15
financial services firms, and 4 of the top 10 industrial
companies, Gomez products and services help companies
achieve and maintain peak performance of their Internet
applications.  Founded in 1997, Gomez provides performance
measurement, benchmarking, and competitive insight through
24/7 real-time alerting, problem identification, and web
site monitoring from over 12,000 locations worldwide. 
Gomez is Network Computing magazine's "Editor's
Choice" for best Internet performance monitoring
service.  For more information, please visit
http://www.gomez.com . 

    Gomez, Gomez.com, Gomez Performance Network, and Gomez
WorldView are trademarks and/or service marks of Gomez,
Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.

    For more information, please contact:

    Corporate Contact:
     Cathy O'Leary Hayes
     Gomez, Inc.
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

    Agency Contact:
     Darby Johnson
     Beaupre & Co. Public Relations, Inc. 
     Tel:   [phone] 
     Email: [e-mail]

SOURCE  Gomez, Inc.