ShotSpotter Adds Seasoned VP of Engineering to Executive Team

Mountain View, CA – May 9, 2005 – ShotSpotter, Inc., the country’s leading developer of gunshot location systems and technology for law enforcement and the military, today announced that Doug McFarlin has joined the company as vice president of Engineering, and will be leading the team of expert technologists and programmers in product development.

 “ShotSpotter offers me an opportunity to once again be part of a team bringing an integrated system solution to a complex, real-world problem,” said Doug McFarlin. “I enjoy the challenge of building and working with a highly effective engineering team that develops ground-breaking products for critical markets.”

Doug McFarlin brings more than 20 years of senior engineering leadership to the growing team at ShotSpotter. He held the position of VP of Engineering at Honeywell for 6 years and held senior engineering management positions at Measurex for eleven years prior to that. Most recently, Mr. McFarlin was VP of Engineering for Novariant, a company that delivers solutions for precision guidance and control of vehicles and heavy equipment based on real-time kinematic GPS technology.

“Doug is an excellent addition to our engineering and executive teams,” said James G. Beldock , CEO, ShotSpotter. “His years of engineering leadership, in addition to his specific recent experience with GPS technologies, will help guide ShotSpotter’s engineering team over the bridge from new product development to efficient, high-output production.”

Mr. McFarlin earned his BSEE from the University of California at Davis and his MSEE from the University of California at Berkeley.

About ShotSpotter, Inc., (www.shotspotter.com)
ShotSpotter, Inc., the leading developer of gunshot location systems and technology, is based in Santa Clara, CA. ShotSpotter’s flagship product, which detects gunfire across large urban areas using a small number of inexpensive and easy-to-deploy sensors, currently protects the citizens of cities nationwide, from Los Angeles, CA to Washington, DC. Its products recently assisted the FBI and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in identifying and capturing the Columbus, OH highway sniper suspect. In 2000, ShotSpotter was honored for its technology vision and leadership when got won the Computerworld Smithsonian Laureate Award, having been nominated by William H. Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, and the Smithsonian added its technology to the museum’s permanent collection. With technology covered by numerous patents, the company also offers products to the law enforcement, homeland security and military markets. ShotSpotter technology has consistently produced arrests and weapons confiscations nationwide and has helped reduce gunfire and crime rates in cities that deploy it.

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