Authoria Promotes Gary McNeil to Vice President, Marketing and Chris Caldon to Vice President, Professional Services

Authoria, Inc., the world leader in personalized, Web-based human resource communication, today announced that Chris Caldon has been promoted to vice president, professional services and Gary McNeil has been promoted to vice president of marketing. Both promotions will provide Authoria with substantial product development and market positioning experience as the company continues to meet the strong worldwide demand for its HR and benefits communication software.

Chris Caldon, most recently director of product management for Authoria, has been with the company for five years and has been a key contributor to the successful product releases of Authoria eSPD and Authoria HR UK. In his new role, Chris will oversee consulting services, account management, training, and support with a focus on successful customer and partner deployments of the companys flagship Authoria HR product. He will also ensure that Authoria's customers benefit both from the flexibility of Authoria's applications and from its ease of integration with ERP vendors such as PeopleSoft, SAP, and Oracle.

Gary McNeil, most recently director of marketing and sales operations for Authoria, joined the company over three years ago. McNeil is charged with developing and implementing strategies to maintain Authoria's market leadership position. McNeil oversees brand and identity, lead generation, marketing communications, public relations, customer marketing initiatives, events, web marketing, inside sales, and industry analyst relations. His mission is to continue to deliver world-class integrated marketing initiatives that impact customers, prospects, and partners.

"Both Chris and Gary have earned their leadership positions at Authoria through their high performance in building Authoria into the market leader.  I'm looking forward to their valuable contributions in these new positions," said Authoria President and CEO Tod Loofbourrow. "The success of Authoria's global customers is a direct result of the experience, work ethic, teamwork, and high professional standards of our management team.  As we continue to provide employers with innovative solutions that allow them to better communicate with their employees, Chris and Gary will deliver the best possible solutions to our customers every time."

About Authoria

Authoria is the world leader in personalized, Web-based human resource communication. Authoria HR is the knowledge application standard in the software industry.  Over one hundred organizations worldwide rely on Authoria to dramatically improve employee communication while streamlining costs. Authoria's knowledge applications manage and communicate human resource information to millions of people at some of the world's largest companies, including Boeing, Motorola, and Wells Fargo. Among Authoria's partners are industry-leaders PeopleSoft, Towers Perrin, IBM BCS and Accenture. Based in Waltham, MA, Authoria has been ranked three times by Inc. Magazine as one of America's fastest-growing private companies and has been recognized by Deloitte & Touche in the New England Fast 50 four times and the National Fast 500 twice. For more information, please visit www.authoria.com.