San Francisco, 1 December 2009

hypios is pleased to announce the appointment of John Sifonis and Dr. David M. Clemetz to its US Advisory Board. This is the first step in building a complete US Advisory Board for the online problem-solving platform.

“The US is the most important market in R&D worldwide and is therefore of the utmost importance for hypios. So we’re obviously thrilled to have found two very experienced, forward-looking advisors to helps us win in that market,” said Co-Founder/Chief Communications Officer Klaus-Peter Speidel of hypios.

Mr. Sifonis brings over 40 years of experience in industry and management consulting experience to the company. He is currently managing director of SOTR, LLC; prior he was CEO of hydrogen fuel cell firm Trulite, and a managing director in the Internet Business Solutions Group at Cisco Systems. At Cisco, Mr. Sifonis was the Energy & Utilities global practice leader and chief knowledge officer. Prior to Cisco, he founded SAI International and was a senior partner at Ernst & Young, as well as the national director of E&Y’s Strategic Management Consulting Group. His experience in consulting with high-tech firms makes him a highly valuable advisor for hypios development in the United States.

Dr. David Clementz has more 35 years of technology management experience. He was enterprise chief information officer for ChevronTexaco Corporation and is now executive vice president for service delivery with EDS.

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Hypios combines intelligent crowdsourcing, competency discovery technology, and human outreach to deliver an optimal open problem-solving service. “Seekers” post R&D problems to the network and select a deadline and a price for the successful “Solver.” Hypios, which draws from a network of 950,000 experts across the world, has been solving R&D problems for global companies since 2008.

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