CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 31, 2002 -- Endeca, the leading provider of Guided Navigation solutions, today announced that Jim Baum, president and COO, will be presenting on Wednesday, August 7 at 1:30PM at the Adams, Harkness & Hill 22nd Annual Summer Seminar for emerging growth companies. This year’s seminar will be held August 5-8, 2002 at the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel in Boston, MA.
Jim Baum will introduce Endeca’s innovative search and retrieval technology featuring Guided Navigation and discuss how Endeca helps businesses across a variety of sectors including retail, financial services and business-to-business with applications that address the information overload problems associated with content and catalog management as well as enterprise information access and retrieval.
Baum joined Endeca in June 2001 bringing more than 11 years of experience in software operations and product development to Endeca. Since his arrival, Endeca has secured more than $28MM in additional venture funding, as well as an impressive list of customers including Barnes & Noble.com, Putnam Investments, The Spiegel Group, IHS Engineering and Arrow Electronics. Baum was also recently appointed to the Board of Directors of Proficiency Software. Before Endeca, Baum served as EVP and GM of PTC’s Windchill business unit where he was responsible for all aspects of the business including, product strategy, product development, marketing, operations and services.
The Adams, Harkness & Hill Annual Summer Seminar is one of the industry’s longest running events and will host approximately 200 public and private emerging growth companies in the technology, healthcare and specialty consumer marketplaces. A live webcast of the presentation will be available at http://custom.viavid.com/ahh and will be archived until September 5, 2002. An archived slide presentation will be available on the Endeca web site at www.endeca.com/about_endeca/events.
About Endeca
Endeca offers innovative Guided Navigation information delivery solutions for companies who need to integrate, discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve the business problems associated with information overload. Endeca technology is already at work for leading retail, financial services and business-to-business companies like Barnes & Noble.com, Fidelity Investments, Eddie Bauer, Spiegel, Tower Records, Arrow Electronics, Putnam Investments and IHS Engineering. Endeca solutions empower users to search, explore and discover relevant relationships in data and find accurate and precise results with unprecedented speed. Patent-pending algorithms provide a scalable, Web-based infrastructure for data exploration, leading to highly relevant and meaningful results every time, and this technology can be applied across a wide-range of enterprise and customer applications including Customer Relationship Management (CRM) analytics, catalogs, directories, search and portal integration. Endeca is a privately held company headquartered in Cambridge, MA and is backed by leading venture capital firms including Ampersand Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Venrock Associates. For more information, please visit www.endeca.com or email us at info@endeca.com.
About Adams Harkness & Hill
Adams, Harkness & Hill is a privately held, full-service institutional investment bank focused on emerging growth companies in the technology, healthcare and consumer sectors. With a focus on research-driven investment ideas, Adams, Harkness & Hill offers investment banking, institutional sales and trading, asset management and corporate services. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and with offices in San Francisco, London and Paris, Adams Harkness & Hill offers the expertise of a national investment bank with the personalized attention and long-term client relationships of a boutique investment bank. European services are offered through Adams, Harkness & Hill, Ltd. More information is available at www.ahh.com. Member NYSE/NASD/SIPC.