Board Changes

Cyan Holdings Plc 29 March 2007 Press Release 29 March 2007 Cyan Holdings Plc ('Cyan' or 'the Company') Board changes Cyan Holdings plc, the fabless semiconductor company specialising in the development of low powered, configurable microcontroller chips, is pleased to announce today the appointment of Kenn Lamb as Chief Executive Officer, with effect from 11 April 2007. Paul Johnson becomes President and Chief Technical Officer. Kenn has seventeen years of executive management experience in high technology companies. From 2001 to 2006, Kenn was CEO of Elixent where he completed a successful sale of the business to Matsushita of Japan. Prior to Elixent Kenn was Senior Vice President Sales at ARC International plc where he managed the restructuring of its international sales team. After two years of sales growth, ARC completed a successful London Stock Exchange flotation in September 2000 with a market capitalization of £500m. Before joining ARC, Kenn was Managing Director of Actel Inc's European FPGA businesses where his team quadrupled sales in two years. Leading Cyan's recent strategic review in a consultative role gave Kenn a deep understanding of the Company and its operations. In addition, Kenn has strong expertise in microprocessors and configurable peripheral technology and has built up considerable international experience in reorganisation and implementing subsequent strategies. Mike Hughes, Chairman of Cyan, said: 'We are delighted with the appointment of Kenn. His strategic vision, enhanced by his understanding of the semi-conductor industry, will greatly benefit Cyan's future and take the Company to the next stage of its development. Kenn is a very strong addition to the Board, and his technical and business acumen will be important assets to the Company as it builds on the progress we have made in terms of our product range and customer base, as well as developing internally as a company. 'The Board would also like to thank Paul for his important contribution whilst CEO. He has been instrumental in developing the Company in its early stages and is now pleased to be able to concentrate his world class technical skills to further develop Cyan's product range.' Kenn Lamb, aged 48, has held the other following directorships and/or partnerships during the past five years: Current Directorships Directorships held in the past five years NxCetera Ltd The Wildscreen Trust There is no other information that falls to be disclosed under Schedule 2 paragraph (f) of the AIM Rules. - Ends - For further information: Cyan Holdings plc Andrew Lee, Finance Director Tel: +44 (0) 1954 234 400 www.cyantechnology.com Media enquiries: Abchurch Communications Heather Salmond/ Franziska Boehnke Tel: +44 (0) 20 7398 7700 franziska.boehnke@abchurch-group.com www.abchurch-group.com Notes to Editors Cyan Holdings plc is a fabless semiconductor company which specialises in the design, sale and support of a range of 16-bit and 32-bit general-purpose low power, high performance microcontroller chips ('MCUs'). These chips are integral components used in nearly all electronic products, ranging from mobile phones and washing machines to toys, televisions and motorcars. Consumer entertainment markets require more powerful processors and are usually based on 32-bit chips which Cyan is developing to serve this market segment. Cyan operates in a $14 billion worldwide market for microcontrollers, which is poised to grow to $20 billion by 2010. Cyan has identified Europe and South East Asia as the largest markets for its products, and as such aims to have 1% of the microcontroller market within 5 years. Originally Cyan was a spin out from Cambridge Consultants Limited to use its 16-bit core, the same core used in CSR's Bluetooth chips. Since Cyan was founded in 2002, it has achieved 100 design wins for its initial eCOG1(R)k product and is expanding the range of the patent-protected eCOG1(R) family and introducing a new range of 32 bit microcontrollers. Cyan has introduced design integration support software, CyanIDE(R), to support the Company's entire range of current and future microcontrollers. The software makes chip integration into customers' products vastly more simple, quick, reliable and hence less expensive while dramatically reducing development time. Cyan created CyanIDE(R) to avoid relying on standard tools from third party suppliers. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, UK and opened a sales and technical support office in Hong Kong in May 2005 which services the Chinese market. Cyan employs 40 people. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange BOAJPMPTMMITBFR
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