Notice of Board Appointments

RNS Number:2216Z
Focus Solutions Group PLC
29 July 2002

29 July 2002



Focus Solutions Group plc



Focus appoints two new non-executive directors





Focus Solutions Group plc ("Focus" or the "Group") announces today the
appointment of Alastair Taylor as deputy chairman and Lin Johnstone as a
non-executive director of the Group with immediate effect.



Alastair MacLeod Taylor, aged 53, was previously the President for the Global
Financial Services Industry for Unisys Corporation and a member of the Executive
Management Board. He has spent 30 years with Unisys and has held senior
executive positions in the UK and internationally.  During this time he held
specific responsibility for the development of the life and pensions and
mortgages markets for Unisys.



Linda Francis Johnstone, aged 49, has 14 years experience of the customer
relationship management (CRM) and contact centre market.  She was Vice President
UK for E.piphany Inc following its acquisition of Rightpoint Inc and oversaw its
initial entry to the UK market. Previously she spent 10 years with Aspect
Communications where she was Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and
Africa and three years with Datapoint as Operations Manager.





John Streets, Chief Executive, said:

"I am delighted to welcome Alastair and Lin to the Board at this important stage
in the Group's development.  Alastair's extensive experience of the Financial
Services market will be invaluable in supporting our continued strong growth in
this sector both in the UK and internationally.  Lin's expertise in high growth
technology companies will help us exploit the global potential of our XML
toolkit, goal:technology, outside the life and pensions market where is it
already firmly established."



Alastair Taylor was previously a director of Unisys Ltd.



 Lin Johnstone is a director of Evolve Software Europe Limited and Chief
Executive Officer and President of Industri-Matematik International.  She was
previously a director of Aspect Telecommunications Corporation (now Aspect
Communications Corporation) and was Managing Director of Rightpoint Limited.



Save as disclosed above there are no other disclosures for either Alastair
Taylor or Lin Johnstone in respect of Schedule Two, paragraph (f) of the AIM
rules of the London Stock Exchange.









Enquiries



Focus Solutions Group plc              01926 468 300
John Streets
Claire Forrest



Citigate Dewe Rogerson                 020 7638 9571
Chris Barrie
Sara Batchelor





Notes to editors

Focus Solutions Group is a specialist provider of sales automation solutions for
the financial services industry. Through goal:technology, its XML based
collaborative toolkit, Focus delivers straight-through electronic processing to
create a paperless sales process across multiple channels to market including
IFA portals, websites, Extranets, direct sales and call centres.



Focus has a portfolio of market facing propositions and services to help
customers to implement and use technology effectively.  Propositions are
available for the Life and Pensions, Mortgage and General Insurance markets.
Focus has specific expertise in Point of Sale systems, having developed RIO,
Norwich Union's POS solution for their direct sales, tied agents and
telemarketing channels.



Focus customer base includes: Assureweb, Exchange FS, Friends Provident,
IFAEngine, Legal & General, Norwich Union, Royal & Sun Alliance, Scottish
Equitable, Scottish Provident, Scottish Widows, Skandia, Standard Life and Zifa.



Focus recently expanded internationally by acquiring its US partner, MPO, to
form Focus Solutions Inc.  Focus Solutions announced its year-end results on
30.04.02, including revenues increased by 123% to £5.1 million.  For further
information on Focus Solutions, please visit www.focus-solutions.co.uk.








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