Elysium Inc.

Elysium Hires Todd Weiss as Director of Strategic Accounts

Company Primed to Further Expand into Automotive OEM and Upper Tier Suppliers


Southfield, MI, March 3, 2005 - Elysium Inc., a leading global provider of multi-CAD enabling software, today announced the addition of Todd Weiss to its sales management team. As Director of Strategic Accounts, Weiss will manage critical automotive accounts for Elysium.

Weiss has more than 12 years experience selling enterprise data management/creation/collaboration technologies in the discrete manufacturing community. As a major account representative for Hewlett Packard, CoCreate and PTC, Weiss worked with companies that produced over 1 billion in annual revenue.

“We are delighted that Todd is joining Elysium,” said Cecil Lewis, general manager - Americas, Elysium Inc. “It is a reflection of the way Elysium is growing. The strategic accounts are critical to the success of the company and Todd’s experience in maintaining and initiating new business is ideal to continue the expansion of Elysium’s market presence.”

“I chose to work for Elysium based on their industry leading feature-based translation technology,” said Weiss. “Over the past few years, Elysium has laid the groundwork with the right technology and the right customers. With the arsenal of sophisticated Elysium products at my disposal, it is now the right time to further expand and present the technology advances to aerospace, automotive tiers and OEMs.”

Elysium’s feature-based technology is currently being used in a production environment at Joy Mining and a major aerospace supplier.

About Elysium Inc.
Founded in 1984, Elysium bridges the gap between CAD systems and enables PDM and product structure synchronization with its industry-leading technologies. Elysium's CADporter(TM), CADdoctor(TM), and CADserver(TM) software products enable the translation of all geometry from one CAD system to another with the industry's highest success rate. Platforms supported include, ABAQUS/CAE, ACIS, CATIA, Inventor, I-deas, Metrix Build!IT, One Space Designer, Horizon, JT, Parasolid, Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks, Unigraphics and other major MCAD products. Elysium has successful partnerships with several major software companies including ABAQUS, Autodesk, CoCreate, UGS, Maya Metrix, PTC, SmarTeam, SolidWorks, and Spatial. Elysium is a member of the AIAG and a sponsor of Renault F1 Team.

For additional information about Elysium's products and services, please visit www.elysiuminc.com.

CADporter, CADserver, CADdoctor, CADpdm, and CADfeature are trademarks of Elysium Co., Ltd. and Elysium Inc. All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.


Elysium Company Contact:
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Elysium Inc.
+1 (248) 799-9800
leanne.olsgaard@elysiuminc.com


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