TUI InfoTec, a Joint Venture between Sonata Software of India and the TUI Group of Germany, recently hired Jens Habler as Head of Sales. Jens brings with him 20 years of rich experience in the IT industry in setting up sales structures, commercial operations, increasing market presence and customer relationship management. In his last stint, he was Vice President Sales at Lufthansa Systems Infratec GmbH.

This move is the beginning of TUI InfoTec's thrust into the external European market. The company will leverage on Jens' experience in changing the revenue mix to favour business from external customers.

The management team of TUI InfoTec has been expanded with the induction of P Srikar Reddy, EVP and COO of Sonata Software. In addition to his current role at Sonata, Srikar will be Managing Director of TUI InfoTec along with Heinz Kreuzer (chairman) and Michael Ohm who are the other two members of the Board of Managing Directors of TUI InfoTec. Vivek Desai, Vice President of Sonata Software will be Director - Marketing, Account Management and Alliances.

About Sonata Software :
Sonata Software Limited (Sonata) is a leading IT Consulting and Software Services company, which has been servicing its clients in the US, UK and Europe since 1986. Sonata is listed on the Indian Stock Exchanges, and has a SEI CMM Level 5 accreditation. For more information, please visit www.sonata-software.com.

About TUI :
The TUI Group is the European market leader in tourism and one of the top five players in global container shipping. It is registered in Hanover and Berlin. The tour operators of TUI trade in 17 European countries and in 2005 sold the Group's products to around 21 million customers. TUI encompasses all in all about 3,200 travel agencies, 7 airlines with more than 100 aircraft and 37 incoming agencies. Its hotel portfolio is made up of 279 hotels with approximately 164,000 beds in 30 countries.Through its wholly owned subsidiary Hapag-Lloyd, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, TUI operates one of the world's leading container shipping companies with more than 140 container ships. Under the brands of Hapag-Lloyd in Germany and Thomson in the UK, TUI also operates a fleet of nine cruise liners. For more information, please visit www.tui-group.com