Duck Creek Technologies Expands Executive Team

Industry veterans Larry Axon and Sean Murphy join Duck Creek to lead the company’s growing development and services teams

Bolivar, MO, July 6, 2005 - Duck Creek Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of rating and policy administration software for the insurance industry, today announced that Larry Axon and Sean Murphy have joined the Duck Creek executive team to lead the company’s strong and continually growing development and services teams.

Larry Axon joins the company as Vice President of Engineering, with responsibility for the development and maintenance of the entire Duck Creek software product family, including the EXAMPLE Platform® software suite and the Commercial Lines Templates. Mr. Axon will also define the company’s architectural vision and oversee its implementation, continuing to drive the Duck Creek product suite to new levels.

Mr. Axon brings over 20 years of experience to Duck Creek, having been a software technology executive in the healthcare, technology, distribution, and warehousing industries. Most recently, Mr. Axon worked as an independent consultant, serving as interim CIO for several corporations, as well as forming and operating a new IT department for a healthcare organization.

Sean Murphy joins Duck Creek as Vice President of Services, and has assumed responsibility for building and managing the rapidly-growing Services team which provides product consulting, technical consulting, and training services. Mr. Murphy will also continue to refine Duck Creek's Implementation Methodology, with the goal of continuous improvement of Duck Creek Services.

Mr. Murphy comes to Duck Creek with over 12 years of experience in the business and technology consulting industry, most recently as a Senior Director - PeopleSoft Finance Service Line Leader with Miami-based Answerthink Consulting.

"The addition of two technology industry veterans like Larry and Sean further strengthens our organization’s infrastructure and positions us well for our current and future growth," commented Doug Roller, CEO of Duck Creek Technologies. "Their impressive track records and proven leadership skills will serve us well as we continue to deliver on our commitment to provide exemplary customer service, and to provide the insurance industry with innovative Product Lifecycle Management solutions," Roller said.

About Duck Creek Technologies

Duck Creek Technologies enables insurance carriers and other participants in the insurance distribution process to define and develop rating, underwriting, and policy processing services for any line of business and to deploy those services to the Web and to all other points on the product value chain. Duck Creek's EXAMPLE Platform® supports all aspects of product definition, including data capture, rating, rules, interview screens, documentation, workflow, and transactions.  Duck Creek's customers use the Platform for a wide variety of purposes, including full policy processing, submission processing, and black-box rating for both batch and interactive environments. The company was founded in January 2000 and has offices in Bolivar, Missouri, and Farmington, Connecticut. Duck Creek Technologies is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

For more information, visit http://www.duckcreektech.com or call 866-DUCK-TEC.

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