Ronald Hodge Joins eknow Advisory Board

ARLINGTON, VA. AUGUST 5, 2008. eknow inc announces today that Ronald G. Hodge has accepted a position on the eknow Advisory Board as Advisor for Financial and Corporate Strategy. Mr. Hodge is the Founder and President of Sage Group Holdings, a business advisory and merchant banking firm that seeks to identify companies with outstanding potential and work with management teams to substantially increase company valuations.

During his nearly 30-year career, Mr. Hodge has been involved in transactions with public and private companies totaling over $6 billion. His responsibilities have provided broad exposure to analyzing and performing due diligence on companies; evaluating business models, strategies and management teams; negotiating, structuring, documenting, closing and exiting transactions; and proactive involvement with management teams through board and advisory roles.

“Ron’s substantial financial and strategic expertise will be extraordinarily valuable as eknow embarks on a major growth phase,” according to eknow CEO Alan Croll. “I am delighted to welcome Ron to our team.”

“I’m extremely enthusiastic about joining the eknow team,” says Mr. Hodge. “They have spent years developing INTEGRATOR into a world class M&A management software solution that has been vetted and implemented by some of the world’s most sophisticated corporations to manage their most important transactions and business implementation projects.

“Post merger integration management represents a huge potential addressable market. Each year there are thousands of M&A transactions representing trillions of dollars in investment. Integrator’s easy-to-use, quick-to-implement, extremely high value-added solution puts eknow in a leading position to become the dominant dedicated vendor addressing this sizable and ‘execution-critical’ market.”

Mr. Hodge joins an impressive list of eknow advisors who have lent their expertise and experience in shaping eknow’s product and business strategy. Other members of the Advisory Board include, among others, Alexandra Reed Lajoux, author of the highly successful “The Art of M&A” book series, and Mary MacPherson, founder of M2Works LLC, and former senior manager at Apple and Blackboard, Inc.