Rightware’s CEO Relocates to Shanghai

The move allows efficient execution of company’s Asia strategy and strengthening of its customer relationships

Shanghai, China and Espoo, Finland – August 18, 2011 – Rightware, the leader in embedded 3D user interface (UI) technologies, today announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Tero Sarkkinen, has relocated to Shanghai, China. With this move, Rightware accelerates the expansion of its operations in China and continues the execution of its Asia strategy efficiently. In 2010, the company established a wholly owned subsidiary in Shanghai which also acts as the Asia Pacific regional headquarters. Within Asia, Rightware has established an extensive customer base in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. In addition to driving Asia business growth, Mr. Sarkkinen continues to serve as the CEO of Rightware.

“China has rapidly become one of the leading markets for advanced graphics technologies. While we have had active operations and great customers in China already for some years now, we recently identified remarkable potential to substantially increase our market share and business in China and whole Asia. Therefore, it’s only natural that Rightware has an appropriate presence in this key location. Most importantly, the move allows us to serve our current customers, such as China Mobile, China Telecom, Huawei, LG, MediaTek, Renesas, Samsung and ZTE – just to name a few – better and with proper magnitude,” said Tero Sarkkinen. “I’m eager to expand our role in Asia as a top 3D UI technology provider for embedded industries as well as a provider of the industry’s leading benchmark products for mobile and automotive customers,” continued Sarkkinen.

Tero Sarkkinen has served as the CEO of Rightware since founding the company in 2009. Prior to Rightware, Mr. Sarkkinen was the CEO of Futuremark Corp., a leading PC graphics benchmark software provider. Mr. Sarkkinen holds a Master of Science in Business Administration from Aalto University Business School in Helsinki, Finland, and has completed executive programs at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

About Rightware

Rightware® is the market leader in 3D User Interface technology, serving mobile, automotive and other embedded industries with its Kanzi® solution for rapid 3D user interface design and deployment. Rightware has introduced the world’s first commercially available stereoscopic 3D (S3D) user interface solution. Rightware also develops industry leading system performance analysis tools. Rightware’s renowned product portfolio includes the Basemark® product family for various benchmarking purposes, plus 3DMark® Mobile for OpenGL ES 1.x and OpenGL ES 2.0, VGMark® for OpenVG 1.x, and SPMark® platform benchmark for Android, MeeGo, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Linux and mobile Java. Rightware is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and has offices in Shanghai, Beijing, and Palo Alto. More information: www.rightware.com.

Contacts:

Tero Sarkkinen
Chief Executive Officer
Rightware Information Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
1301B Xin Cheng Mansion, No. 169 Jiang Ning Road
Jing’an District, Shanghai
+86-1381-761-9733

Ville-Veikko Helppi
Director of Marketing
Niittykatu 6 C
02200 Espoo Finland
+358-400-949-001

firstname dot lastname at rightware dot com