Betsy Atkins joins Digital Fuel's Advisory Board

BRISBANE, CA - April 23, 2001
Digital Fuel Technologies, a leading provider of Outsourced IT Service Management solutions announced today that Betsy S. Atkins, an Internet and telecommunications visionary who has guided several private startups and public companies to success, has joined Digital Fuel's advisory board.

Betsy Atkins is an independent venture capitalist, focusing on investments in early stage, high-tech companies. As a member of Lucent Technologies' board of directors since April 2000, Atkins serves on the Audit and Compensation committees. Previously, Atkins was a co-founder of Ascend Communications, which was founded in 1989, went public in 1994, and was acquired early in 1999 by Lucent for about $20 billion in stock.

"With her extensive industry experience and exceptional track record with leading companies, Betsy will be a tremendous asset as Digital Fuel as it develops its strategy for enabling the next generation of outsourced IT services" said Benny Lehmann, CEO and co-founder of Digital Fuel. "Her talent and experience will be invaluable to the company, and we look forward to her contributions in the years ahead."

About Digital Fuel

Digital Fuel is the leading provider of business service management (BSM) software solutions, helping service providers and enterprise service organizations manage the performance, financial, and regulatory aspects of IT, telecommunications, and business process services.  Digital Fuel has the largest deployments for SLA management and service cost management in the world, with thousands of concurrent users, SLAs, KPIs, metrics, cost formulas, and pricing rules.  With Digital Fuel's patented visual approach, our customers are deployed rapidly to quickly drive business value from automating the management of service offerings, agreements, service cost, and performance with their service customers and vendors.  ServiceFlow manages billions in business and IT services at companies and governments around the world such as Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Cummins, Capgemini, BT, IBM, SITA, Siemens Business Services, O2, Atos Origin, Telefonica, Transport of London, CSC and many others.  Digital Fuel is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices across North America and Europe.  Learn more at http://www.digitalfuel.com.