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AMO News Amino Technologies Appoints Keith Todd as Chairman

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amino Technologies plc (“Amino” or the “Company”) (LSE:AMO), the Cambridge based broadband network software and systems company is pleased to announce the appointment with immediate effect of Keith Todd, CBE, as non-executive chairman and director.

Mr. Todd, aged 53, is executive chairman and CEO of FFastFill plc; a software and services company focused on the capital markets and non-executive chairman of Magic Lantern, a new media company supplying the broadband market.

Keith served as non-executive chairman of the UK Broadband Stakeholder Group for three years from February 2002. The group included the key stakeholders, both from the public sector and industry and is focused on identifying actions that will accelerate the adoption of broadband services in the UK. He was also non-executive chairman of Easynet plc, a broadband services company, until January 2006 when it was sold to B-Sky-B and of E C Soft, which was sold to Cyber Inc. in January 2003.

He was previously chief executive of ICL plc from 1996 to 2000 (now Fujitsu Services) and was responsible for the transformation of ICL from a hardware product company to a $4 billion revenue IT services company. He held a number of other senior executive positions in ICL and GEC Marconi defence businesses, including working in the US for five years between 1981 and 1986. He started his career in the public sector.

He was awarded the CBE in June 2006 for his services to the telecommunications industry.

He was treasurer of the Open University for eight years and is a lifetime member of BAFTA, a fellow of the Institute of Management Accountants and the Royal Society for the Arts.

Bob Giddy, Amino’s Chief Executive, said:

“We are pleased to welcome the appointment of Keith Todd as our new Chairman. Keith brings to Amino a combination of both large and small public company experience together with a huge experience of the internet broadband sector.”

The company expects to appoint a further non-executive director in due course.

Additional information

Thomas Keith Todd is currently a director of FFastFill plc, Knotty Green Consultants Ltd., Ffastfill UK Ltd., Ffastfill Europe Ltd., FFastFill Inc., Ffastfill France SAS, Ffastfill Australia Pty. Ltd., FFastFill FD Ltd., Future Dynamics Inc., Spredmania Ltd. and Magic Lantern Production Ltd. In the past five years, he has been a director of Easynet plc, Red Gateway Ltd., The Securities Market Technology Services Company Ltd., Vinepoint Ltd. and Cyber Europe Ltd.

No further disclosure is required under Paragraph (g) to Schedule Two of the AIM Rules with respect to Thomas Keith Todd.

About Amino

Amino Technologies plc (www.aminocom.com) designs and supplies Electronic systems, software and consultancy for IPTV (telco triple-play applications), on-demand video and in-home multimedia distribution delivered through three operating divisions.

Amino Communications supplies the AmiNET™ series of high performance IPTV set-top boxes and gateways for development in the telecommunications, broadcast and hospitality markets. Generally, AmiNET products are supplied with the IntAct™ IPTV software stack for customer premises solutions to OEMs enabling them to supply IPTV set-top boxes and gateways for larger scale deployments and the hospitality sector.

Amino is partnered with world-leading companies in systems integration, middleware, conditional access, semi-conductor, head-end systems and browser technologies.