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May 1, 2002

AnVil Announces Key Technical Hires

Pioneer in life sciences informatics signs on new Director of Engineering and Informatics Scientist

Burlington, MA - May 1, 2002 - As part of its continuing expansion, life sciences discovery pioneer AnVil, Inc. today announced the hiring of two key experts to help guide its technical capabilities. Dr. Kurt Thearling has been named AnVil's Director, Engineering, and Dr. Natasha Markuzon has joined as Informatics Scientist.

"We're very pleased to have two professionals of Kurt Thearling's and Natasha Markuzon's stature aboard Team AnVil," said Dr. Richard Gill, President and Chief Executive Officer of AnVil. "They've demonstrated proven leadership in their respective fields of expertise and further strengthen our unique team of highly experienced business executives, MDs, chemists, life scientists, biostatisticians, mathematicians, data miners, software engineers, and IT specialists. Having a staff with such breadth and depth of knowledge enables AnVil to offer complete solutions for in silico drug discovery and drug development, as well as for other life sciences challenges."

Dr. Thearling brings to AnVil over fifteen years of experience and leadership in software technology and management, along with a well-established industry reputation as an expert in data mining, decision support, and analytics technologies. He was most recently Senior Director of Development and Chief Scientist at Wheelhouse, in Burlington, MA, where he managed software development efforts, designed new product architectures, and set technology strategy. Prior to Wheelhouse, Dr. Thearling also served as Director of Analytics at CRM software maker Xchange, of Boston. He has also consulted extensively in the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals sector. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois in 1990.

Dr. Markuzon comes to AnVil after many years of extensive experience in data mining, predictive modeling, and neural networks, with applications to finance and biotechnology. She recently served as Senior Data Analyst at Xchange, and prior to that was Senior Scientist at Knowledge Stream Partners (acquired by Xchange in April, 2000). Dr. Markuzon has also held several research posts at major universities, including Boston University, Princeton and at the Research Institute "SouzGazAutomatica" in Moscow. She earned her Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University in 1996.

About AnVil
AnVil is a pioneering life sciences discovery company that turns data into knowledge. AnVil partners with life sciences, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare companies, enabling them to see and interpret multiple data sets in integrated, information-rich views. This approach turns data into decision-quality information, generating informed decisions faster and more accurately. AnVil's combination of scientific perspective, expertise and high-dimensional technology uncovers the limitless possibilities within complex data sets.

AnVil is based in Burlington, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.anvilinfo.com, or call 1-781-272-1600. E-mail inquiries should be sent to: info@anvilinfo.com.

Copyright © 2002 AnVil, Inc. All rights reserved.

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