Pamplona - August 16, 2007 - Openbravo, the leading developer of professional, web-based, open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions designed specifically for small and medium businesses, has expanded its management team with the appointment of Paolo Juvara as Chief Products Officer (CPO).

Paolo Juvara joins Openbravo from Oracle Corporation, where he worked for fourteen years, most recently as senior director, leading the development of the Service product line. He also held a broad range of development and management roles within Oracle's Applications Development business, including positions in Financials, Supply Chain Management, CRM and Business Intelligence.

His experience in developing products for global markets is highly relevant to Openbravo's ERP software.

Moving from Oracle's headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, Paolo Juvara will be based in Pamplona, Spain, and will assume responsibility for Openbravo's ERP product roadmap, engineering and integration projects.

Manel Sarasa, Openbravo's CEO, said: "Paolo understands our market and the opportunities and challenges that open source brings. Furthermore, he has the personality and level of insight to be involved with our development communities, to listen to and engage with them. His appointment is a great endorsement of our product and strategy. I look forward to Paolo playing an important part in our achievements as we work towards 500,000 downloads on SourceForge."

Paolo Juvara, the newly-appointed CPO for Openbravo, said: "I deeply believe in the design and application of open source software and I look forward to applying my experience of development of commercial software into an area that I feel passionately about. Openbravo has a strong team and a strong strategy, and I am proud to be part of one of the most successful projects in SourceForge."

Ismael Ciordia, Chief Technology Officer for Openbravo said: "Paolo has the perfect combination of experiences to take Openbravo to the next level: he is a capable developer; he is used to managing large teams of developers; he has global experience and he has worked on strategy, sales and consulting with companies across Asia Pacific, EMEA, Latin America. While Paolo will take full responsibility on business focused products, such as the ERP, I will focus on evolving and enhancing our powerful development platform in which these products run."