Flatirons Solutions CTO Elected to IDEAlliance Board of Directors

FLATIRONS CTO ELECTED TO IDEALLIANCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS BOULDER, CO — Eric Severson, Chief Technology Officer of Flatirons Solutions has been elected to the Board of Directors of IDEAlliance, the International Digital Enterprise Alliance. IDEAlliance is a not-for-profit membership organization that has been a leader in information technology and publishing since 1966.

"We are very proud to be so directly involved with such an impressive organization. IDEAlliance has been instrumental in the advancement of the publishing industry for 40 years", said John Pritchard, Chief Executive Officer of Flatirons Solutions. "Eric's appointment reflects great credit upon the technical leadership and accomplishments of Flatirons, and directly upon Eric, as our chief technologist. Eric has been a leader in the XML-based publishing industry virtually since its inception. He has directly contributed to countless innovative solutions that have provided significant business benefits to our clients."

Flatirons Solutions is an industry leader in providing innovative XML-based publishing solutions. Prior to joining Flatirons, Mr. Severson was Chief Technology Officer for eConvergent, a software vendor specializing in correlating customer data across disparate databases and application systems. From 1996-1999, he was an Executive Consultant for IBM Global Services, where he focused on content management and XML, and was a principal developer of IBM's XML certification test. Before joining IBM, Mr. Severson served as Vice President and Chief Strategist for Interleaf, Inc., a publishing and content management vendor, and was co-founder and CTO of Avalanche (a pioneer SGML/XML software development company).