Emportal Appoints Senior Executive to Head Development

WALNUT CREEK, CA--(Marketwire - October 7, 2008) - Uniting the way business works with the way people work, Emportal today announced that Chris Bavelock, a software engineering management professional with 25 years' experience, has joined the company as vice president of Development. Bavelock will lead the company's product development efforts.

"Emportal meets the needs of our customers through a fresh approach to the HRMS market. Chris will be an integral contributor as we continue to add functionality to our core product offerings," said Mark Robinson, Emportal's co-founder, president and CEO. "His extensive experience in software development and his proven track record delivering commercial software targeting Fortune 1000 customers will prove invaluable in achieving our strategic goals."

Bavelock joins Emportal from Bridgestream Inc, where he was director of engineering. His previous professional experience includes being the founder and vice president of engineering at OpCo, a healthcare software solutions company. Earlier in his career, he was senior director of engineering at Commerce One and worked at Bank of America and Advanced Micro Devices. He earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Bavelock commented, "I am excited to join the company that is dedicated to becoming the number one HRMS on the market. Emportal's focus on providing customers with an HRMS that leverages the intuitive Microsoft Office 2007 user interface, coupled with the best elements in HRO, marks Emportal as the leading edge vendor in the HR market. I look forward to supporting this momentum."

About Emportal

Emportal was founded in 2005 to enable companies to choose and integrate the best HR vendors and services for their businesses, while at the same time having them delivered through a single, flexible, coordinated, integrated, highly scalable, modular and managed enterprise platform. Comprehensively supporting and managing the workforce of both today and tomorrow -- an ever-changing mix of employees, vendors, and alternative labor sources (independent contractors, temporary workers, consultants, etc.) -- Emportal truly delivers a "have it your way" blend of next generation technology and services. More information can be accessed at http://www.emportal.com/.