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Under McGinnity's leadership, Visual Numerics has launched new solutions for the business analytics markets and has established valuable strategic partnerships with IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Cray, among others. She is responsible for managing Visual Numerics' business development, product management, education programs and marketing, as well as helping to evolve the company from a tools to a solutions provider. In addition, McGinnity manages all corporate branding and communications. Finally, she led the creation of Visual Numerics' Knowledge in Motion program, which focuses exclusively on providing analytics technology to the academic community for curriculum development and research. Today, professors from prominent institutions such as Hong Kong University, the University of Colorado, Columbia University and the University of Texas use the JMSL Numerical Library to develop new applications and instructional aids for a variety of computationally-based disciplines such as engineering, mathematics, statistics and computer science. In addition to her executive responsibilities at Visual Numerics, McGinnity leads a strategic initiative for SC 05, called HPC Analytics. This new initiative at the annual Supercomputing Conference helps support and promote the convergence of advanced analytics and visualization in the high-performance computing space, including a high profile competition, the HPC Analytics Challenge. "Maura has played a key role in Visual Numerics' expansion into the business analytics space by championing product and channel strategies that support this important evolution," said Philip Fraher, president and chief executive officer of Visual Numerics. "We will rely on Maura's strong leadership to continue to serve the scientific markets while bringing Visual Numerics to the forefront of the growing need for advanced analytics." "With our advanced analysis and visualization solutions, Visual Numerics is moving into a time of unprecedented opportunity and I am excited about contributing to the strategic course of the Company. As we expand into new markets, we will continue to innovate our solutions and integrate with strategic partners to meet the growing analytics needs in the market," said McGinnity. "We are committed to offering the most comprehensive technical and visual data analysis and business analytics solutions for our customers to use today and tomorrow." Background: McGinnity has more than 16 years of extensive experience in worldwide marketing, business development, fund raising, mergers and acquisitions and consulting. Prior to joining Visual Numerics, she was the Director of Corporate Development at Tumbleweed Communications where, in addition to serving in a leadership role on mergers and acquisitions, she negotiated and managed strategic technology partnerships with companies such as RSA, BroadVision, Siebel Systems, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard. Before Tumbleweed, McGinnity served as a consultant in a wide range of industries for strategic alliances, sales of intellectual property, leadership training, product management and marketing, corporate communications, corporate development and business planning. This included developing strategic partnerships with companies such as Fuji Xerox, SONY, Samsung, Lucky Goldstar, Eastman Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb. McGinnity earned her M.B.A. from the University of Rochester William E. Simon Graduate School of Business, completed International Relations coursework at John's Hopkins University and the University of London, and received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Rochester. Visual Numerics has provided technical software solutions for numerical analysis and visualization for more than three decades. The company's software products help users understand complex data from a variety of sources and build business-critical applications. Visual Numerics offers two product lines: the IMSL Numerical Libraries for powerful mathematical and statistical analysis and the PV-WAVE® visual data analysis development environment. Visual Numerics also offers customized consulting services for applications that involve mathematical, statistical, or visual data analysis to meet today's business analytical needs. Major corporations, academic institutions, and research laboratories worldwide use Visual Numerics' software tools, including such high profile companies as: Bear, Stearns & Company; Barclays Global Investors; Priceline.com; The Dow Chemical Company; Humana; Sandia National Laboratories; and Boeing Company. This large and diverse customer base is supported through a direct sales force, wholly owned international subsidiaries, and international distributors. For more information about Visual Numerics, please visit www.visualnumerics.com.