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Salesforce.com Chairman And CEO, Marc Benioff, to Deliver Keynote Address at ThinkEquity LLC 3rd Annual Growth Conference

San Francisco, CA - July 28, 2005 — ThinkEquity LLC (www.thinkequity.com), a research-centric institutional investment firm, today announced that Marc Benioff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), will give a keynote address at the ThinkEquity's 3rd Annual Growth Conference taking place September 12-15, 2005, at the Ritz Carlton, San Francisco. The conference will highlight 200 of the fastest-growing, most-innovative companies in the world.

"Marc Benioff is one of the most dynamic business leaders in America today. He has built salesforce.com into a juggernaut in the CRM space and is an ideal person to highlight what a well-run growth company can accomplish given a strong strategic vision, powerful leadership and an understanding of the market." said Michael Moe, co-founder and CEO of ThinkEquity. "With Howard Schultz and Marc Benioff delivering keynote addresses at our Growth Conference, we believe we are highlighting two of the finest executives of growth companies in the world today."

Among the companies scheduled to present at the Think Growth Conference are: FoxHollow Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FOXH), Napster, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAPS), Apollo Group, Inc., (NASDAQ: APOL), QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW), Peet's Coffee & Tea, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEET), Sepracor Inc. (NASDAQ: SEPR), and Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTA). For a complete list of presenting companies and for more information on the conference, please visit www.thinkequity.com.

About ThinkEquity

ThinkEquity is a research-centric institutional investment firm focused on the growth economy. ThinkEquity merger with Panmure Gordon in March 2007 provides its clients with global investment banking services. The firm is dedicated to providing focused insight, advisory services, and capital to institutional investors and corporate constituents in the knowledge economy's key growth verticals, including technology, healthcare, media/education and consumer/business services. For more information about ThinkEquity, please visit www.thinkequity.com. Member FINRA and SIPC.

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Peter Coleman
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ThinkEquity
415-249-2900

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Jennifer Jones
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