Mary Jo Nye Joins Cannon Technologies, Inc. as Director of Marketing & Sales Support

Minneapolis, MN, August 7, 2006 — Cannon Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of Mary Jo Nye to the leadership team as the director of marketing & sales support. Ms. Nye brings many years of sales, marketing and communications experience in the electric power automation sector to this role.

Prior to joining Cannon, Mary Jo supported the sales & marketing efforts at Open Systems International, Inc. Her prior experience includes positions at Paychex, 4COM, World Satellite Network and LOGIS. She earned a bachelor of arts in accounting from the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota, and has completed the Mini-MBA program in Leading Growing Companies from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.

"Cannon is pleased to have a professional of Mary Jo's caliber join our team," said Bill Simons, senior vice president of sales & marketing. "With a 60 percent-plus growth rate, our solutions need the best talent to support our team, partners, vendors and customers".

About Cannon Technologies, Inc

Privately held Cannon Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1987 to deliver load management and automated distribution solutions to electric utilities. Cannon Technologies is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota—with branch offices in California, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia. Today, Cannon’s customer portfolio includes nearly 400 electric utilities across North America. Utilities of all sizes apply Cannon solutions to manage peak load, improve system power factor, read meters remotely, and improve substation reliability. For more information, please visit www.cannontech.com.

Media Contact:

Joel Cannon, President
Cannon Technologies, Inc.
763.595.7777
joel@cannontech.com