Erez Lorber Joins BackWeb as Vice President of Worldwide Business Development

Former CEO of HERMES SoftLab USA to Pursue Strategic Business Opportunities and Alliances

SAN JOSE, Calif. — April 26, 2000 — BackWeb® Technologies (Nasdaq: BWEB) a leading provider of push for e-business solutions, today announced that Erez Lorber, former president and CEO of HERMES SoftLab USA, Inc., has joined BackWeb as vice president of worldwide business development. Lorber brings more than a decade of business development, marketing and management experience to BackWeb. He is responsible for market development, in addition to forging strategic partnerships and alliances with leading high-technology organizations.

While at HERMES SoftLab USA, Inc., a leading software house specializing in the storage, system management and telecommunications, Lorber also was a member of the HERMES board and the corporate senior management team. There he played a key role in the formation of the company's worldwide strategy.

"Erez exhibits the strategic vision of a world-class business development executive," said Eli Barkat, chairman and CEO of BackWeb Technologies. "He will be integral to our global mission to establish BackWeb as the standard push infrastructure for e-business."

Prior to his tenure at HERMES, Lorber was founder and CEO of Deloitte & Touche Information Technology Israel, a market leader in the IT consulting arena specializing in the selection and implementation of ERP and financial software solutions. He holds a B.A. degree (magna cum Laude) from Temple University and an MBA from the Reccanaty School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University.

About BackWeb Technologies
BackWeb Technologies is a leading offline Web software company. BackWeb extends the value of technology investments by offering mobile and remote employees offline access to portals, intranets and other Web-based applications and content. The company's products reduce network costs and improve the productivity of an increasingly mobile workforce. At the core of BackWeb's products is its patented Polite® synchronization technology that can distribute large amounts of data even over narrow bandwidth connections. BackWeb® customers include market leaders such as Boehringer Ingelheim, Centocor, Eastman Kodak, GE Healthcare, Guidant, HP, KLA Tencor, Lam Research, Pfizer and more than one hundred other companies. BackWeb also has strategic reseller alliances with software industry leaders: Plumtree, SAP and IBM. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel. For more information, visit www.backweb.com or call (800) 863-0100.

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