SumTotal Appoints Kimberley Kasper as Vice President of Marketing

Mountain View, CA – April 7, 2008 – SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), a global provider of learning, performance and talent management solutions, today announced that Kimberley Kasper has joined the company as vice president of marketing. She will be responsible for all aspects of corporate marketing including branding, messaging, corporate communications, demand generation, web and online marketing and customer marketing.

Prior to joining SumTotal, Kasper was with salesForce.com, where she was responsible for strategic development and delivery of the marketing programs to support sales including field marketing, search engine marketing, mass market and developer programs and webinars. In addition, Kasper was responsible for all marketing in Latin America.

Prior to salesForce.com, Kasper was with WebEx where she was responsible for all world-wide prospect and customer marketing programs. In previous roles, Kasper held marketing management roles at companies such as Perfect Commerce, Recourse Technologies (now Symantec), Commerce One, and VeriFone.

“We are excited to add Kimberley to our executive team,” said Ray Villareal, senior vice president of field operations. “She brings world-class company experience and processes, particularly in the fast-growing SMB and on-demand markets. Kimberley will be instrumental in accelerating our momentum in the talent management market, driving demand programs and improving customer interactions.”

About SumTotal Systems, Inc.
SumTotal Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT) is a global provider of learning, performance and talent management solutions. SumTotal deploys mission-critical solutions designed to align goals, develop skills, assess performance, plan for succession and set compensation. SumTotal’s solutions aim to accelerate performance and profits for more than 1,500 companies and governments of all sizes, including six of the world’s 10 biggest pharmaceutical makers, six of the 10 largest automotive companies in the world, four of the five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, three of the world’s top five airlines, five of the six largest U.S. commercial banks and two of the world’s top five specialty retailers. Mountain View, Calif.-based SumTotal has offices across Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. For more information about SumTotal's products and services, visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.

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