LeverPoint Selected as Winner of Areas “Hottest Bootstrap”

Northern Virginia Technology Council Announces Finalists and Winners of Annual Hot Ticket Awards Program

( HERNDON , VA , June 26, 2008)The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), the largest technology council in the nation, last night announced the finalists and winners of its seventh annual Hot Ticket Awards, recognizing local entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies for achievements that make them "hot" – great vision, superior ability to implement and deliver, innovative management approaches, and overall success. Award categories included: Hall of Fame, Hottest Bootstrap, Hottest Buzz, Hottest Exit, Hottest Management Team and Hottest VC Deal.

The award ceremony was attended by more than 450 Capital region technology entrepreneurs, business leaders, media and special guests.

The judges for the 2008 Hot Ticket Awards included: Jonathan Aberman, Amplifier Ventures; Mike Avon, Columbia Capital; Steve Balistreri and Jennifer Trax, Argy, Wiltse & Robinson, P.C.; John Hurley, DLA Piper; Mary MacPherson, M2Works; and Sever Totia, Edison Venture Fund.
Winners and finalists of this year's Hot Ticket Awards are:

Hall of Fame Award, sponsored by FedResults
WINNER: Vocus, Inc.

Hottest Bootstrap, sponsored by Valhalla Partners
WINNER: LeverPoint ( www.leverpointinc.com )  

Other Nominations
Distributive Networks
Gratis Internet
KZO Innovations
South 49
Strategic Enterprise Solutions

Hottest Buzz, sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank
WINNER: Clearspring ( www.clearspring.com )

Hottest Exit, sponsored by Ernst & Young
WINNER : ServiceBench ( www.servicebench.com )

Hottest Management Team, sponsored by AH&T Insurance
WINNER: Parature ( www.parature.com )

Hottest VC Deal, sponsored by Com eric a Bank
WINNER: Zenoss ( www.zenoss.com )

"The Northern Virginia area is home to some of the most dynamic and innovative technology companies in the world,” said Bobbie Kilberg, President and CEO of NVTC. “The annual Hot Ticket Awards offers us an opportunity to honor companies for their exceptional achievements representing different aspects of business from stellar VC funding deals to all-star management teams. As always, the nominations were numerous and outstanding, which continues to validate Northern Virginia as one of the preeminent tech hubs in the country.”

About LeverPoint:

LeverPoint provides software product development and testing outsourcing to software firms and software-enabled enterprises worldwide using our unique right-shore, dedicated partnership model.  With this model LeverPoint builds highly efficient, win-win client-partnerships with an optimized mix of team members from the client's internal resources and LeverPoint's centers in the US and around the globe.  These teams operate as virtually one team and are comprised of the full range of skills needed to more quickly and cost-effectively bring higher quality software products from vision to market including user interface and requirements definition to software architecture, development and the myriad forms of software testing.

The company is headquartered outside Washington , DC with US offices in Boston , New York and in the UK in London .  Our global delivery centers are located in India , Argentina and Eastern Europe .

About NVTC:

The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) is the membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia and is the largest technology council in the nation. NVTC has 1,050 member companies and enterprises representing approximately 186,000 employees. Its membership includes companies from all sectors of the technology industry and the service providers that support these companies, as well as universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations and governmental agencies. NVTC is recognized as the nation's leader in providing its technology community with networking and educational events, specialized services and benefits, public policy advocacy, branding of its region as a major global technology center, initiatives in targeted business sectors and in the international, entrepreneurship, workforce and education arenas, the Equal Footing Foundation that focuses on venture philanthropy and public/private partnerships, and The Entrepreneur Center @NVTC to mentor new technology entrepreneurs. Visit NVTC at www.nvtc.org .

For more information, please contact:

Lawrence Roe
Larry.roe@leverpointinc.com
LeverPoint, LLC
11417 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 215
Reston , VA 20190
703-435-6365/888-LeverUp