Jobvite Names Adam Hyder, Veteran Yahoo! Engineering Leader, as Chief Technology Officer

Online recruitment innovator expands executive team
SAN FRANCISCO - August 5, 2008 - Jobvite, provider of next-generation
recruitment solutions, today announced that Adam Hyder has joined the
company as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). As CTO, Hyder will lead all
technology and engineering development, working with the executive team of
this fast growing Software as a Service provider in the multi-billion dollar
online recruiting market.

Hyder joins Jobvite directly from Yahoo!, where he most recently served as
Senior Director of Engineering for the company's Advertising Management
Platform (AMP!), Yahoo!'s multi-billion dollar online advertising program.
Previously, Hyder was CTO and Director of Engineering for Yahoo! HotJobs
where he delivered innovative products that contributed to 100 percent
revenue growth during his three years in the division.

Prior to Yahoo!, Hyder served as Senior Director of Engineering at TradeBeam
Inc., a venture-funded software company that streamlined global trading
processes for enterprises. Before TradeBeam, he was Co-founder, CTO and CEO
of OneBuild, a B2B marketplace. Earlier in his career with Sun Microsystems,
Hyder served as Architect and Staff Engineer at JavaSoft and SunLabs.

"Adam Hyder is a results-oriented technology visionary and entrepreneur who
will provide outstanding leadership to our engineering team and savvy
strategic counsel on our executive team," said Dan Finnigan, President and
Chief Executive Officer of Jobvite. "He brings extensive experience leading
innovative development of online advertising platforms, search and matching
technology, B2B SaaS platforms and consumer Internet services to his new
role at Jobvite."
 
"Jobvite has truly impressed me with its holistic approach to talent
acquisition. Social networking is an integral part of today's hiring
ecosystem and Jobvite has beautifully integrated this concept into its
application to solve talent acquisition challenges in a way that is cost
effective, simple and elegant for the user," said Adam Hyder, Chief
Technology Officer of Jobvite.  "I am delighted to work with the exceptional
team here to scale our business, catapult the innovation cycle and build
value for customers with new social recruitment technologies."

About Jobvite
Jobvite creates recruitment solutions that fundamentally change the way
companies hire. We think collaboration, not automation, builds great
companies. Jobvite is the only recruitment application built to involve all
employees in the hiring process, leverage their social and professional
networks, and manage all aspects of hiring in an easy to use platform.
Jobvite customers include leading edge companies like Advent, Infinera,
nGenera, SupportSoft and TiVo. For more information, visit www.jobvite.com.

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