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Kofax appoints industry veteran as senior vice president of OEM strategy

Jim Vickers brings more than 20 years of executive management experience in sales, marketing and channel strategies

UK - December 17, 2008

IRVINE, CA, December 17, 2008 – Kofax plc (LSE: KFX), the leading provider of Intelligent Capture & Exchange solutions, today announced the appointment of Jim Vickers as its Senior Vice President of OEM & Partner Strategy. Vickers will oversee all OEM, point-of-sales (POS), channel management and business development functions in alignment with Kofax’s hybrid go-to-market model, which supports both direct customer engagements and indirect sales through channel partners. He reports to Alan Kerr, Executive Vice President of Field Operations, and will work out of the company’s operating headquarters in Irvine, California.

Before joining Kofax, Vickers served as Executive Vice President at Taylor Corporation’s NowDocs Technology Division and with EMC/Captiva Software as its Chief Marketing Officer and General Manager of its Pixel OEM business. Prior to that, he served in senior sales management roles with a number of companies, including Electronics for Imaging, where he held the position of Vice President Worldwide OEM Sales and was responsible for $560 million in annual revenues.

Vickers’ appointment is the latest in a series of major initiatives designed to further enhance Kofax’s market position and growth potential. These include adopting Kofax as a single corporate brand and company name, restructuring the corporation around global business functions, realigning and better focusing the company’s sales resources, and introducing new revenue growth initiatives.

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“Jim is an accomplished industry executive and leader with a proven track record for solving complicated business problems, identifying growth opportunities that deliver new revenues and executing strategies that produce results,” said Kerr. “He also brings extensive experience working with OEM and POS sales, dealers, VARs and other partner channels within the document capture, enterprise content management and imaging arenas. We are pleased to have Jim join our sales management team and know he will be integral in executing our revenue growth strategies.”

“I’m excited to join Kofax and be part of a strong company that has many strategic opportunities to extend its global market leadership as well as drive new revenue growth,” Vickers said. “I look forward to working directly with customers and partners to identify and pursue mutually beneficial initiatives.”

About the company

Kofax plc (LSE: KFX) is the leading provider of Intelligent Capture & Exchange solutions. For more than 20 years, Kofax has provided award-winning solutions that automate document-driven business processes by managing the transformation and exchange of business-critical information arising in paper, fax and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely and cost-effective manner. These solutions provide a verifiable return on investment to thousands of customers in financial services, manufacturing, retail, government, healthcare, business process outsourcing and other markets. Kofax delivers these solutions through its own sales and service organizations, and a global network of more than 1,200 authorised partners in the more than 60 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

For more information, visit http://www.kofax.com .

Kofax is a registered U.S. trademark. All other trademarks and registered trademarks belong to their respective owners.

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Phone: 0161 601 7740
Email: kofax@lewispr.com

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