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Sourcesense UK Announces New Managing Director

Marco Abis to lead Sourcesense UK

LONDON and AMSTERDAM – 16 March, 2009 – Sourcesense, the leading European provider of Open Source and Agile services, today announced the appointment of Marco Abis as UK Managing Director. Abis brings more than 13 years of technology experience to Sourcesense, most recently serving as Global Programme Management Officer of global IT consultancy ThoughtWorks.

“I’m thrilled to see Marco joining the Sourcesense team,” said Gianugo Rabellino, co-founder and CEO of Sourcesense. “Marco is the perfect candidate for Sourcesense, with his unique mix of pragmatic entrepreneurship and experience in multi-national, agility-driven organizations. Sourcesense plays extremely well to Marco’s strengths, with our offering geared towards lighter, agile, effective and open solution for an enterprise market in desperate need for efficiency to survive the downturn and be prepared for a fresh start.”

Abis has a notable track record ranging from successful entrepreneurship to directorship of multinational companies. As Managing Director, he will take on the challenge of bringing the UK branch of Sourcesense to a new level, further accelerating the impressive growth the company has been experiencing in the past year and contributing to the overall success of the pan-European organization.

“Sourcesense has established itself as a clear leader in the Open Source consulting, integration and Agile categories,” said Abis. “I am impressed by the company’s winning combination of world-class technology, razor sharp focus on Open solutions and customer success. I’m eager to work with the strong Sourcesense team to capitalize on those assets and to lead the company in its next phase of rapid growth.”

Abis initially served ThoughtWorks as Senior Project Manager in the delivery of multi-million pounds, high business valued, high quality object oriented projects and the integration of disparate systems with a particular focus on Object Orientation, Team Building, Agile Tailoring and development methods. Prior to that he successfully built 2 IT companies in Italy.

 Abis is also heavily involved in the Agile Community, speaking and organising workshops and conferences like the Italian Agile Day as well as having served on the Programme Committee of events like XP2004, XP2005, XP2006, XP2007. He also served the Agile Alliance Board of Directors for two years.

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