Directorate Change

Sopheon PLC
30 September 2002


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                        30 September 2002


                                SOPHEON PLC


          ERP AND COLLABORATION SOFTWARE EXECUTIVE JOINS SOPHEON BOARD


Sopheon plc ('Sopheon') announced today that Dan Metzger has been appointed to
its board as a non-executive director.  Until the end of 1998 Mr. Metzger was an
executive vice president of Lawson Software, a leading ERP provider, where he
was responsible for all elements of corporate strategy and marketing and played
a pivotal role in driving dramatic revenue growth to over $200 million. He has
since held similar roles at Parametric Technologies where he led the business
strategy and marketing around collaborative product development technologies,
and nQuire Software which was later sold to Siebel. Mr Metzger, aged 48 years,
is a citizen of the USA and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Sopheon can confirm that no further disclosures are required in respect of Mr
Metzger under paragraph (f) Schedule Two of the AIM rules.

Sopheon further announces that Joseph Shuster, a non-executive director and the
founder of the former Teltech Resource Network Corporation, is retiring from the
board.

Barry Mence, Chairman of Sopheon, commented:

'We are very pleased to add a director with Dan Metzger's track record of
creating and driving highly effective strategies for business success in the
software industry. Dan has deep knowledge of the opportunities and challenges
that face Sopheon as an emerging leader in providing enterprise solutions to
improve the product development and R&D processes of major corporations, and his
skills will be a major asset in the evolution we expect in the business. Our
thanks go to Joe Shuster for the major contribution he has made to the
development and integration of Sopheon, and we wish him well.'




For further information contact :
Barry Mence, Chairman       Sopheon plc               Tel : + 44 (0) 1483-883000
Arif Karimjee, CFO          Sopheon plc               Tel : + 44 (0) 1483-883000
Steve Liebmann              Buchanan Communications   Tel : + 44 (0)20-7466-5000
Barbara Jansen              Citigate First Financial  Tel : + 31 (0) 205-754-010



About Sopheon

Sopheon (LSE:SPE) is an international provider of software tools, experts and
content that help organizations improve the business impact of product
development. Sopheon serves nearly half of the technology-driven companies on
the Fortune 500, enabling higher, faster return on innovation and product
development investments through technology and human-based decision support. The
company's products and services include its flagship Accolade(R) product
development system, the award-winning Teltech.com(R) Web-based research portal
for technical and business professionals, and Organik(R) expertise-sharing
software.  Sopheon is listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London
Stock Exchange and on the Euronext in the Netherlands.   For more information,
please visit www.sopheon.com.



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