FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR JOTHY ROSENBERG JOINS ANGLE TECHNOLOGY VENTURES

Industry Veteran to Lead ANGLE's Commercialization Efforts in Boston Region

ROCKVILLE, Md. - November 29, 2006 ANGLE Technology Ventures LLC, the U.S. technology commercialization arm of ANGLE plc (LSE: AGL) an international ventures management and consulting company listed on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange, has named industry veteran Jothy Rosenberg, Ph.D. to its Ventures team as Director of Information Technology Ventures, giving the company a strong presence in the fertile Boston high tech region.

"The addition of Jothy to the ANGLE Ventures team broadens our software and IT expertise and establishes our presence in the Boston area," said Gary Evans, Ph.D., CEO of ANGLE's US Operations. "His proven track record in forming, funding and growing companies based on university, national laboratory and corporate intellectual property will play a key role in ANGLE's continued growth and expansion," Evans continued.

Dr. Rosenberg will be based in Newton, Massachusetts near the Route 128 technology corridor and within minutes of all the Boston-based research laboratories and universities. He will spearhead ANGLE's efforts to commercialize early-stage technologies in software, semiconductors, communications and other IT technologies and services. Dr. Rosenberg will work closely with the technology transfer staffs at New England area universities to help identify commercializable technologies and enable start-up formation.

"ANGLE sees a growing and unserved need for early stage company formation," said Rosenberg. "We address this critical need and very few other organizations do."

Working through his extensive networks in the entrepreneur and venture capital communities, Dr. Rosenberg has founded five companies since 1988, with two companies having greater than $100 million exits. Prior to his string of successful startups, Rosenberg held several executive positions at Borland International where he oversaw software development and delivery activities, for Delphi, C++ and JBuilder.

Dr. Rosenberg earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Kalamazoo College and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University, where he served as an assistant professor of computer science for five years post-Ph.D. He is the author of the successful technical books How Debuggers Work (1996) and Securing Web Services with WS-Security (2004). Dr. Rosenberg is also the founder of the Boston Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Forum, a technology and idea interchange forum among CTOs of leading Boston technology firms.

  • About ANGLE Technology Group
  • Founded in 1994, ANGLE is an international venture management and consulting company. ANGLE focuses on the commercialization of technology and the development of technology-based industry, from creating new companies to the planning, managing and marketing of research parks, incubators, and other initiatives. ANGLE operates in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. ANGLE operates in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. ANGLE has U.S. offices in Charlottesville, VA, Vienna, VA, Rockville, MD, Philadelphia, PA, Pittsburgh, PA and Minneapolis, MN. For more information about ANGLE Technology visit www.angletechnologyventures.com and www.angleplc.com.