For Immediate Release

Castek appoints new Director of Partnerships & Alliances
Seasoned Strategic IT professional joins Castek Executive Team to ensure continued success

Toronto, ON, March 6, 2000 – Castek Software Factory, one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Private Companies, today announced the appointment of Ritchie Leslie as Director of Partnerships & Alliances.

In this newly created position, Leslie will manage Castek’s relationships with resellers, solution integrators and strategic technology suppliers. He will report to Yung Wu, President & CEO of Castek.

"With his skills and experience in the IT industry, Ritchie will be instrumental to Castek achieving its vision of becoming the #1 global provider of enterprise component software solutions for the new economy." commented Alistair Cumming, Vice President of Business Development "We’re delighted to have him on board."

Before joining Castek, Leslie held management, sales & technical roles in the IT industry, most notably for an international systems integrator, where he managed all aspects of an international alliance programme with Microsoft. The programme successfully launched new business services, including e-business and business intelligence. Leslie has also developed regional alliances with IBM, Network Associates and Oracle.

"I am very excited to be part of this dynamic team." said Ritchie Leslie "The explosion of e-business has set the stage for Castek’s success. , Our next generation solutions, combined with world-class partners such as IBM, position us to deliver true value to our customers."

Castek has a track record of successfully delivering business-critical enterprise software solutions in the new economy. Castek solutions are engineered for the internet era; dynamic and flexible, ready-to-assemble component frameworks which replace legacy business handling systems to form the foundation for e-world capabilities.

 

About Castek

Castek Software Factory Inc. is an innovative information technology firm with offices in Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario; Cary, North Carolina, and operations across North America. The company’s focus is the delivery of strategic, component-based business software solutions to the financial services sector.

Founded in 1990, Castek is recognized as the pioneer and leading practitioner of component-based development and application assembly from pre-built, reusable software components, delivering systems that are substantially more flexible, maintainable, and configurable than any other industry alternative. Castek was recently ranked as #29 in the 100 Top Independent Software Companies in Canada.