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EXHIBIT 99.1
ILOG FORMS TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARD, ANNOUNCES BOARD CHANGES
Efira Joins ILOG Board of Directors
First Appointments Made to Technical Advisory Board
PARIS AND MOUNTAIN VIEW - May 30, 2000 - ILOG (NASDAQ, EURO.NM: ILOG) today
announced the creation of a Technical Advisory Board, which is intended to
further strengthen the company's ties with the technical and scientific
communities. ILOG also today announced the new board's first appointments.
Consistent with its goal of attracting international leaders in the field of
advanced software systems, ILOG has appointed Dr. Martin Groetschel, vice
president of the Konrad Center for Information Technology at the Technical
University in Berlin to the advisory board. Gilles Kahn, vice president for
Science at INRIA, the French National Institute for Computer Science, has also
joined the new board. Dr. Robert Bixby is stepping down from the ILOG board of
directors in order to chair the Technical Advisory Board. He will be replaced on
the ILOG Board by Edouard Efira, former executive vice president of corporate
business development, who has resigned from this position to accept the post of
chief executive officer at Quadratec, a supplier of software-based back-up and
archival systems headquartered in France. Efira spent 11 years at ILOG in
various senior positions, including launching and building the company's U.S.
subsidiary.
"Edouard has been a significant contributor to ILOG's success and we are pleased
he will continue to be involved with the company through participation on the
board as well as with possible joint business relationships," said ILOG
president Pierre Haren. "Quadratec will benefit from his knowledge." Regarding
Dr. Bixby's appointment, Haren said, "Bob's technical credentials and leadership
through his tenure on the ILOG board and as co-director of our optimization
research and development efforts make him the right person to lead our efforts
to keep ILOG technology on the cutting edge of the industry." Bixby was
appointed to the ILOG board in 1997 following ILOG's acquisition of CPLEX
Optimization, Inc., which he co-founded. Dr. Bixby is a Noah Harding Professor
Emeritus of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University and is a
member of the National Academy of Engineering.
HIGH-CALIBER APPOINTMENTS
ILOG's new technical advisory board will ultimately be composed of six to eight
people, including Drs. Bixby, Groetschel, Kahn and ILOG Chief Technology Officer
Patrick Albert. All members will represent expertise in five key software areas:
the web, math programming, constraint programming, visualization and business
rules. For example, Groetschel is well-known for his work in the fields of math
programming and operations research, where he has won many awards. In addition
to his post as vice president of the Information Technology Center at the
Technical University of Berlin, one of the world's premier academic institutions
for the study of computer science, Groetschel teaches operations research at the
university. The first computer scientist ever elected as full member of the
French Academy of Science, Gilles Kahn is one of Europe's leading experts in the
fields of computer science and information technology. In addition to his
current post as vice president of Science at INRIA, Kahn has held numerous
scientific committee posts for leading technical organizations and universities,
and has advised leading technology companies. Bull-Olivetti, France Telecom,
Thomson-CSF and the Microsoft Research Center in Cambridge, UK have all sought
Kahn's technical expertise.
Given ILOG's origins in scientific research and development and its strong
academic connections, the company places high value on keeping in close touch
with current and future technical directions. The objective of the Technical
Advisory Board is to formalize and intensify the company's links with key
technical and academic constituents in order to keep ILOG on the leading edge of
software innovation.
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ABOUT ILOG
Dually headquartered in Paris and Mountain View, Calif., ILOG was named the
world's leading supplier of software components by International Data Corp. in
its latest ranking. Founded in 1987, ILOG offers embeddable optimization,
visualization and business rule components that dramatically shorten the
development time of enterprise applications in the supply chain,
telecommunications, transportation and financial services industries. ILOG
already has a significant market share for its optimization software and is
playing an active role in the emergence of the e-business software components
market. Visit www.ilog.com for additional information.
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