Appointment of COO

Mobile Tornado Group plc

("Mobile Tornado" or the "Group")

Appointment of Chief Operating Officer

Mobile Tornado (AIM: MBT), the leading provider of instant communication mobile applications to the enterprise market, announces that Avi Tooba has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect.

Avi was previously the senior director of engineering at Motorola Solutions overseeing engineering operations and some 500 engineers at the Israel Design Centre. He managed the Public Safety LTE subscriber devices, TETRA subscribers (European standards) and P25 devices and infrastructure (US standards). Prior to that, he was Director of engineering at Motorola Networks which was later sold to Nokia for an estimated US$1 billion.

Jeremy Fenn, Chief Executive Officer of Mobile Tornado, said: "Avi will lead our technical and operations teams and bring huge experience to our business as we continue to engage Tier 1 MNOs, major global enterprises and public sector bodies. Having worked across all major radio platforms, his inputs as we develop our strategy for next generation critical communication platforms will be invaluable."

Avi Tooba said: "Instant and Unified Communication is going to grow enormously over the coming years as the networks are upgraded to 3G/4G infrastructures. Mobile Tornado has a technical platform that will enable it to be a leader in this area, delivering state of the art solutions for our customers. I am looking forward to working with the team to ensure we deliver its full potential'.

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