Ritchie Capital Finance Provides $4 Million in Financing to Informiam, LLC

Chicago, Illinois-April 15, 2006 - Ritchie Technology & Life Science Finance, a division of Ritchie Capital Finance, announced that it has recently closed $4 million in debt financing to Informiam, LLC, a leading provider of real-time performance management software for contact centers.

"In assessing our financial objectives, the Ritchie Technology & Life Science Finance team brought us the best financing solution to meet our current needs," said Steve Kostyshen, co-founder and Chairman of Informiam. “We thank them for all their efforts."

Informiam and the ClearPath suite of products enable leading contact center enterprises to gain real-time visibility through a consolidated view of operations across critical business and technical systems. ClearPath delivers the framework and supporting workflows required for the always-on business environment of contact centers.

“By consolidating data from numerous systems, correlating disparate events, and providing the ability to deliver information across a variety of communications channels, the ClearPath suite of products provides customers with the ability to make effective, real-time decisions," said Mike Marziani, managing director of Ritchie Technology & Life Science Finance. “In a marketplace with numerous commercial releases and real-time needs, Informiam seems well positioned for growth.”

About Informiam
Informiam is the pioneer in Real-Time Performance Management solutions for enterprise contact centers. Informiam’s ClearPath product suite delivers critical information for Fortune 1000 organizations seeking to navigate business operations in real-time. ClearPath consolidates disparate data stores, correlates various business and productivity metrics, and communicates workflows to a wide range of interactive displays and mobile devices in real-time. Informiam delivers ClearPath for Contact Centers to customers across an array of industries including Financial Services, Retail, Telecommunications, Hospitality, and Logistics.

About Ritchie Capital
Ritchie Capital is a diversified alternative asset management firm established in 1997 with interests in hedge funds, commodities, private equity, specialty lending units, venture capital, insurance, energy and real estate and with offices in Chicago and Geneva IL, New York, London, Bermuda, Hong Kong and Menlo Park, CA. www.ritchiecapital.com