Cimatron Names Bill Gibbs President North America
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Cimatron Names Bill Gibbs President North America

Assumes Full Responsibility for Both GibbsCAM and CimatronE Business Lines in North America

GIVAT SHMUEL, Israel, February 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cimatron Limited (NASDAQ: CIMT), a leading provider of integrated CAD/CAM solutions for the toolmaking and manufacturing industries, today announced the nomination of Mr. Bill Gibbs as President North America, replacing Mr. Sam Golan. Bill Gibbs has also been nominated Director at Cimatron Technologies, Inc. (CTI). Under the new leadership of Bill Gibbs, CTI will continue to focus on developing the CimatronE business in North America, offering the best in class integrated CAD/CAM solution for Mold and Die makers.

Following the recently announced merger of Gibbs and Associates into Cimatron, Cimatron intends to capitalize on the strong presence of Gibbs and Associates in North America in order to enhance the sales efforts for CimatronE in this territory. Bill Gibbs, who will continue to maintain his position as President and CEO of Gibbs and Associates will now be responsible for promoting both CimatronE and GibbsCAM product lines in North America.

About Cimatron

With more than 25 years of experience and over 20,000 installations worldwide, Cimatron is a leading provider of integrated, CAD/CAM solutions for mold, tool and die makers as well as manufacturers of discrete parts. Cimatron is committed to providing comprehensive, cost-effective solutions that streamline manufacturing cycles, enable collaboration with outside vendors, and ultimately shorten product delivery time. Cimatron's cutting-edge CAD/CAM solutions are widely used in the automotive, medical, consumer plastics, electronics, and other industries.

Founded in 1982, Cimatron is publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol CIMT. Cimatron's subsidiaries and extensive distributor network are located in over 35 countries to serve customers worldwide with complete pre- and post-sales support. For more information, please visit http://www.cimatron.com.

About Gibbs and GibbsCAM

For over 20 years, Gibbs and Associates has been a leader in providing cutting edge CAD/CAM technology, while maintaining its signature ease-of-use and productivity. Powerfully Simple, Simply Powerful is the guiding philosophy at Gibbs. Gibbs believes in empowering the NC programmer, machinist, and manufacturing engineer, not eliminating them. Gibbs' goal is to introduce manufacturers to new technologies and new ways of working that makes their machining easier and their businesses more profitable. To achieve this goal, Gibbs creates tools that are naturally intuitive, graphically interactive, extremely visual, associative, and just plain enjoyable to use. Gibbs provides a total quality solution with the service and support successful customers require.

GibbsCAM is certified under the Autodesk Inventor Certified Application Program, is a Solid Edge Certified Select application, and is a SolidWorks Certified CAM Application. GibbsCAM is either offered or endorsed by a number of leading worldwide control and machine tool manufacturers, including GE Fanuc, Infimatic, Siemens, Doosan Infracore, Haas, Index, Mag Fadal, Matsuura, Mazak, Mitsubishi, Mori Seiki and Nakamura Tome. Gibbs and Associates distributes its products worldwide through a network of international Resellers.

In January 2008, Gibbs and Associates merged with Cimatron Ltd, (NASDAQ: CIMT) and is now operating as a Cimatron company. For more information about Gibbs and Associates and its CAM software packages, call +1-800-654-9399, or visit the company on-line at http://www.GibbsCAM.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

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