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Bitstream President and CEO Anna Magliocco-Chagnon is successfully transforming the wireless browsing, publishing and font technology company to address the new demands of digital and Web-based communications and play a leading role in the advancement of the mobile Internet. In this role, Anna led the introduction of ThunderHawk, the first browsing technology for carriers and handset manufacturers to display full web pages on mobile phones. Most recently, Anna brought to market BOLT, a mobile browser for consumers that works on mobile phones of all types. Hailed as the fastest and most fully-featured mobile browser, BOLT was downloaded over 1.5 million times in the first six months of its public beta.

Anna was appointed as chief executive officer in 2003. Prior to that, she held the roles of executive vice president, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, and general counsel. Under her leadership, the company was ranked #25 on the 2008 Fortune Magazine list of America's fastest-growing small public companies and named by The Boston Globe to “The Globe 100” list of fastest growing companies and is consistently cited as a one of the “Top Women-Led Businesses” by both the Commonwealth Institute and Babson College.

Using the lessons learned from the development efforts of ThunderHawk and BOLT, Anna has presented at numerous wireless and mobile industries, including iDate, iWireless World, Mobile Enterprise, NetWorld + Interop and the Wireless Security Conferences.

Prior to joining Bitstream, Anna served as counsel to Progress Software Corporation and also specialized in corporate law at prestigious Boston firms Peabody & Arnold and Warner & Stackpole. A truly diverse leader, Anna received her Bachelor of Science in from Northeastern University and holds both a Master of Business Administration from Babson College and Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of markets. The company’s core software products include award-winning fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and messaging software and variable data publishing and web-to-print software for personalized marketing. www.bitstream.com