CHERWELL SCIENTIFIC COMPANY BACKGROUNDER Cherwell Scientific develops and markets innovative software products and services for research scientists. Cherwells customers include the worlds leading pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and biotech companies, and its software is used in many of the worlds major universities. Cherwell Scientific was founded in 1990 as a business specializing in bringing to market innovative scientific software products from around the world. In 1999, Cherwells business model changed, and the company now concentrates on developing its own in-house solutions for discrete markets within the scientific research community. With more than 40 employees, Cherwell Scientific is based in the Oxford Science Park in England, and has a sales and marketing office in Frankfurt. Business Focus Our DeskTop Solutions supplies bibliographic tools and services for the European reference management marketplace. DeskTop has considerable experience with such well-known applications as EndNote, Reference Manager, and ProCite. DeskTop is also experienced with applications such as ChemOffice, StatView, and Mathematica. Our mathematics-oriented business, ModelManager, provides environmental modeling solutions to agrochemical companies, government agencies, and environmental researchers worldwide. The ModelManager business unit develops and supplies the new ModelManager modeling suite and the award-winning ModelMaker software. More information can be found on the Web site at http://www.modelmanager.com Our genetics-oriented business, Cyrillic, develops pedigree analysis software for genetic researchers, counselors, oncologists, and physicians. More information can be found on the Web site at http://www.cyrillicsoftware.com Our chemistry-oriented business, ChemSymphony, develops Java bean component toolkits for the creation of Web and intranet solutions. Our Java components are used to locate and extract chemical and biological structures within an organizations specialized scientific databases. These structures can then be visualized and manipulated. More information can be found on the Web site at http://www.chemsymphony.com Recent Milestones 1990 Cherwell Scientific founded with venture capital |