Cape Clear Software, a leading provider of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions to enable Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), today announced that it has appointed Katherine Barnhisel as vice president of marketing. Barnhisel will be responsible for driving the Company’s corporate and product marketing strategies including positioning, messaging, and demand creation, as well as for continuing to develop its channel partner program.

“Katherine’s success with field marketing and developer relations at BEA, as well as her extensive start-up experience with NetDynamics and WebLogic, make her well-equipped to drive Cape Clear’s strategic marketing programs,” said Jeffrey Read, president and COO of Cape Clear. “We look forward to leveraging her deep understanding of market positioning and communications, and her ability to create demand to propel Cape Clear even further ahead of the competition.”

Barnhisel joins Cape Clear with broad experience in the infrastructure software market. She was director of marketing for WebLogic until its acquisition by BEA Systems in October 1998, joining BEA as vice president of marketing for the BEA WebXpress division. Once WebXpress was integrated into BEA, she held several senior management positions within BEA where her accomplishments included building the BEA developer program, BEA dev2dev, from the ground up, and managing BEA’s Americas field marketing.

Prior to joining WebLogic, Barnhisel held various marketing and technical positions at NetDynamics, Visa International, Citibank, and Arthur Andersen. Most recently, Barnhisel was vice president of marketing for Embarcadero® Technologies.

“Cape Clear reminds me of WebLogic in 1997 – an agnostic player with the industry-leading technology in a market on the verge of exploding,” commented Barnhisel. “What’s more, Cape Clear has one of the most seasoned and driven executive teams of any start-up out there. I’m thrilled to be a part of it!”

During her first few weeks with the company, Barnhisel was quick to capitalize on Cape Clear’s existing momentum, including its recognition as an industry leader by both Gartner and Forrester Research. According to the June 2006 Gartner Dataquest Application Integration Middleware report, Cape Clear is the market share leader in North America with 18.9 percent of the ESB market. Forrester concludes that “Cape Clear Continues to Lead the ESB Market.”

Barnhisel holds two bachelor’s degrees from the University of California, San Diego, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

About Cape Clear Software
Cape Clear Software provides the fastest, simplest, and most proven way to implement a Service-Oriented Architecture, delivering enterprise SOA projects in 20 percent of the time and cost of alternative approaches. With over 200 customers, Cape Clear is the proven leader in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) software. Cape Clear’s True ESB software is based completely on open standards, works with your existing infrastructure, and enables business users to flexibly align their business processes with their infrastructure. Founded in 1999, Cape Clear Software is a privately held firm with headquarters in Waltham, MA, and offices in Atlanta, GA, San Mateo, CA, Dublin, Ireland, and London, UK.

For more information on Cape Clear Software, visit: www.capeclear.com.