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Perry Keating Joins Siebel Systems as Senior Vice President of Global Services
Tuesday September 6, 4:15 pm ET

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2005--Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEBL - News), a leading provider of customer-facing solutions, today named Perry Keating as Senior Vice President of Global Services, reporting to Chief Executive Officer George T. Shaheen.

A highly seasoned technology executive with more than fifteen years of senior leadership experience, Mr. Keating will be responsible for the company's Professional Services, Business Consulting Services, Technical Training, and End User Education business units.

"Perry has established a strong track record of building leading services practices that help ensure customers receive significant value from their investments in software," said Mr. Shaheen.

"Perry's contributions in his new role at Siebel Systems will be critical given our focus on helping organizations achieve outstanding customer-driven business results, and I look forward to working with him."

Mr. Keating most recently served as Senior Vice President, Global Enterprise Solutions, at BearingPoint, where he led the company's Oracle, SAP and Siebel Systems practices.

Prior to working at BearingPoint he served as Director of Strategic Market Development at PeopleSoft Corporation, where he oversaw market development of products and services to the federal government's civilian, defense and intelligence agencies.

Previously, Mr. Keating worked at Oracle Corporation as a Senior Practice Director, responsible for leading that company's East Coast Applications Group that supported multiple federal, state and local government agencies.

Mr. Keating also served in management roles at James Martin & Co. and American Management Systems. He received an MBA from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a BS in Computer Science from Tulane University.

About Siebel Systems

Siebel Systems is a leading provider of customer-facing solutions that deliver demonstrable business results and long-term competitive advantage. Siebel's multichannel offerings allow organizations to intelligently manage and coordinate all customer interactions across the Web, contact center, field sales/service force, branch/retail network, and indirect and partner distribution channels.

Siebel solutions draw upon the company's best-in-class capabilities in customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence, and customer data integration and can be deployed as licensed software or as a hosted service. Siebel solutions are tailored to the unique needs of 23 industries and incorporate industry-specific business processes, best practices, and business insight.

They are the product of more than $2 billion in R&D investments and reflect over 11 years of experience with more than 4,000 organizations.

Together with its extensive global network of alliance partners, Siebel provides the people, process, and technology expertise critical in driving business value from the deployment of customer-facing solutions.

Over 3.4 million users worldwide in organizations of all sizes depend on Siebel solutions to deliver dramatic improvements in how they identify, acquire, retain, and serve customers. For more information, visit www.siebel.com.

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