3 High-Growth CEO Forum™ Members Named to 2007 Mass High Tech All-Star Roster

Three Catlin & Cookman Group High-Growth CEO Forum members were among the 16 individuals honored by Mass High Tech, in its 2007 All-Star Awards competition. Now in its 12th year, this annual competition recognizes influential and dynamic leaders in the New England innovation economy.

“Other High-Growth CEO Forum members have won this accolade in past years, but this year was exceptional since 18 percent of the winners were CEO forum member companies,” said Catlin & Cookman Group partner Bouzha Cookman. “This further validates that our CEO forums attract the best and the brightest high-tech leaders in the region who are building truly great companies with significant and sustainable growth.”

The three High-Growth CEO Forum members taking home All-Star honors this year are:

Robotics — Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot Corp., who was honored with co-founder and chairman Helen Greiner. Headquartered in Burlington, MA, iRobot is a provider of robots that perform dull, dirty or dangerous missions in a better way. The company’s proprietary technology, iRobot AWARE Robot Intelligence Systems, incorporates advanced concepts in navigation, mobility, manipulation and artificial intelligence. This proprietary system enables iRobot to build behavior-based robots, including its family of consumer and military robots. For additional information about iRobot, please visit www.irobot.com.

Hardware — Yale Maguire, Founder of ThingMagic, Inc. Founded in 2000 and based in Cambridge, MA, ThingMagic is a leading developer of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. CEO Tom Grant is a member of a Catlin & Cookman Group CEO Forum. Designed to meet the business needs of a future where networked objects are pervasive, ThingMagic’s Mercury family of RFID readers includes embedded modules and fixed readers that are fully compliant with the EPCglobal Dense Reader Mode specification; the Mercury5 and Mercury5e also offer DRM extensions, resulting in superior sensitivity and interference rejection. For more information, see www.thingmagic.com.

Telecom — Meredith Flynn-Ripley, CEO of Integra5, Inc. Headquartered in Burlington, MA, Integra5 is the global leader in blending triple and quad play bundles into converged services. Featuring patented and patent-pending technologies, the company’s i5 Converged Services Platform (i5 CSP) blends voice, video, data and mobile services into new communications and content applications for delivery across TVs, PCs and other devices. For more information, visit www.integra5.com.