Trolltech Hires Daniel Kihlberg Pallejà to Serve as Vice President Worldwide Marketing

Will Oversee Global Expansion of Qt and Qtopia

Oslo, 10 March - 2008 - Trolltech® announced that it has appointed Daniel Kihlberg Pallejà as Vice President Worldwide Marketing. Daniel has spent most of his career providing executive leadership to teams bringing innovative consumer electronics and communications products to the global marketplace.

Kihlberg Pallejà will lead the marketing teams in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific regions to accelerate the growth of Trolltech’s embedded application platform Qtopia®. Qtopia has enabled a new generation of exciting consumer devices such as mobile handsets, video-phones, set-top boxes and media players to deliver unique user experiences. Daniel will also work to expand the market presence of Qt, the popular cross-platform development framework that enables companies to build software applications that run across multiple desktop operating systems and devices without rewriting the source code.

Kihlberg Pallejà assumes ownership of Trolltech marketing operations, product marketing, marketing strategy, branding and communications. Before Trolltech, he was Senior Director Global Marketing Communications for the brands Jabra® and GN Netcom®: provider of the world’s number one wireless handsets. At Siemens® Communications Devices, Daniel initially headed up product marketing for the world’s first smart phone with an MP3 player and later as Vice President Global Marketing Communications he led activities that established Siemens as a leading mobile phone brand. Before that, at Ericsson® Mobile Communications Kihlberg Pallejà had P/L responsibility for two-way pagers as well as smart phone and Bluetooth device initiatives. Daniel has also managed the marketing of various types of household devices, leading the marketing operations and sales training for products marketed under the brands Electrolux®, AEG® and Lux®.

“Trolltech is completely committed to continuing its pursuit of “Qt Everywhere” and fostering the Qt ecosystem of customers, partners and open source communities,” said Trolltech CEO, Haavard Nord. “Daniel brings hands-on experience and strategic thinking from multiple industries to this job that will provide important leadership as we leverage opportunities being created by the convergence of the desktop, mobile phones and embedded devices.”

Kihlberg Pallejà will ultimately be responsible for executing against Trolltech’s vision of “Qt Everywhere.” “Qt Everywhere” will deliver a consistent user experience with programs, services and content that spans a wide variety of desktops and devices. Qt has a track record of providing major time-to-market and productivity advantages to companies from multiple industries, allowing them to leverage software investments in one platform across a wide variety of others.

About Trolltech
Trolltech provides cross-platform software development frameworks and application platforms. Trolltech’s Qt is used in popular software such as Skype®, Google Earth, Adobe® Photoshop® Elements, Lucasfilm® and by more than 5000 customers worldwide. Trolltech’s Qtopia® has enabled a new generation of exciting consumer devices such as mobile handsets, video-phones, set-top boxes and media players. Trolltech’s software has shipped in more than 10 million devices.

Trolltech’s products enable companies to easily build and deploy software across a wide range of operating systems and electronic devices. The company serves desktop and embedded application providers, as well as consumer electronics and mobile vendors, who face challenges in delivering user-friendly and differentiated software. Trolltech enables customers to accelerate innovation, shorten time to market and increase revenues. Trolltech’s software improves the user experience by increasing the appeal and quality of customer's applications on desktop and devices. The future proof Qt software allows developers to code less, create more and deploy anywhere.

Trolltech supports open source and commercial customers. The company has offices in California, U.S.A.; Brisbane, Australia; Beijing, China; Berlin and Munich, Germany; Oslo, Norway. It is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TROLL. For more information about Trolltech, please visit www.trolltech.com.

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