Industry Veteran Richard Kershaw joins as Managing Director

DENVER - June 22, 2010-Catalyst Repository Systems (www.catalystsecure.com) today announced expansion in the Asia region with the opening of new Asian operations, headquartered in Hong Kong. The new offices will be led by Asia e-discovery expert and forensics veteran Richard Kershaw, previously the Asia Director of Legal Technology for US consulting firm LECG. In this strategic position, Mr. Kershaw will lead business development and operations of Catalyst's practice throughout the Pacific Rim, immediately building out both operations and support teams.

Catalyst, a leading e-discovery company, has delivered a technology platform providing multi-language search and review for complex legal and regulatory matters around the world for over ten years. Its flagship product, Catalyst CR, fully supports both Unicode and non-Unicode encodings of Chinese, Japanese and Korean data, as well as other complex multibyte language codings. One of the early leaders in multi-language technology, Catalyst has worked with many of the largest companies in Asia and has managed complex legal matters comprising many terabytes of Asian-language data.

A recognized expert in designing data forensic strategies including technical and procedural handling of Asian language data in complex legal review, Mr. Kershaw has lived and worked in the Pacific region since 1996 and has accumulated extensive legal industry experience. He has led matters including securities litigation, fraud and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations on projects in Saudi Arabia, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, the Philippines and Japan. He speaks, reads, and writes fluent Japanese.

"We are excited to learn that Richard Kershaw has joined Catalyst. He is one of the top e-discovery experts in Asia," said Ted Fujisawa, CEO of Ji2. "With expertise in forensic technology and profound knowledge of different languages and cultures, Richard is the most qualified specialist to help corporations and law firms handle e-discovery issues here. We look forward to working with him."

"Richard is a great addition to Catalyst's team and the right person to represent them in Asia," noted Darren Cerasi, the founder of I-Analysis (www.i-analysis.com.sg) a Singapore-based e-discovery company which specializes in in Digital Forensics, eDiscovery and Information Management. "He brings a vast body of eDiscovery consulting experience having conducted numerous successful projects throughout Asia. We look forward to working with him in the very near future."

"We are thrilled to have Richard on board to lead this new initiative for Catalyst," said John Tredennick, CEO and founder of Catalyst "I have known Richard for many years and know that his experience will be vital in our expansion to the East."

"Catalyst already has a strong presence in Asia through our regional network of partners, who are also forensic technology experts in their respective jurisdictions," said Mr. Kershaw. "I am looking forward to building out the practice and further expanding our reach across the globe."

Mr. Kershaw is the sitting president of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association Asia Pacific Chapter and a faculty member for the U.S. National College of District Attorneys and a frequent lecturer on computer forensics, corporate litigation management, and cross border e-discovery at leading Universities in the United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong.

Before joining Catalyst, Mr. Kershaw was Director of Legal Technology and Analytic Consulting for LECG, also based in Hong Kong. Prior to that he was head of forensic technology for a security and investigations consultancy, with responsibility for the Asia region based in both Tokyo and Hong Kong. He holds undergraduate and master's degrees in history from the University of Oxford.

About Catalyst

Catalyst Repository Systems is a leading legal-technology company providing secure, scalable multi-lingual document repositories for electronic discovery, litigation support, and other complex regulatory matters. For over a decade, corporations and their counsel have relied on Catalyst to control litigation costs and make review teams more effective. Our systems and supporting services cover the heart of the litigation lifecycle-from processing and analytics, to search, review, production and trial.

Catalyst delivers its software directly and through a global partner network that offers consulting, collection, project management and forensic services. The company manages hundreds of servers in two data centers and has hosted for many of the largest organizations in the world, including five of the world's 10 largest companies, four of the nation's 10 largest insurers and 80 of the nation's 100 largest law firms. For more information about Catalyst, please visit http://www.catalystsecure.com.

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