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EmailLabs Appoints Two New Executives to Its Growing Management Team

New Additions to Drive Revenue, Client Growth and New Technology Innovation for Leading Email Marketing Company

MENLO PARK, Calif. (May 9, 2006)--EmailLabs (www.emaillabs.com), the leader in high-performance email marketing technology and a subsidiary of J.L. Halsey (OTCBB:LYRI.OB), today announced the appointment of Todd Armenio as director of sales and Bob LaRochelle as director of engineering for the company.

As director of sales, Armenio will focus on driving company revenues and managing the EmailLabs sales team. Armenio brings more than 12 years of experience to the company and will lead the charge in building upon the company's already impressive base of strategic clients, as well as a talented and consultative direct sales organization. He joins EmailLabs from RightNow Technologies, a leading ASP on-demand CRM provider. Prior to that, Todd worked for Oracle Corporation, Fatbrain.com (a Barnes & Noble Co.) and Ceridian Corporation.

LaRochelle joins EmailLabs as director of engineering and is responsible for implementing new technology innovations in email marketing and hosting operations. Bob has over 15 years of experience in managing technology development and deployment and previously was vice president of product development and information technology at Axolotl Corporation, where he managed the team that built a secure clinical web application for over 12,000 physicians and their staff. Prior to that, Bob worked at Telepartner International.

"Both Todd and Bob bring a unique combination of management and expertise that will extend EmailLabs' position as a leader in email marketing," said Jim Herbold, general manager for EmailLabs. "Both are strong additions to our management team as the company continues to hire talented people to support our ever-growing client base, strategic partnerships and technology advancements."

About EmailLabs
EmailLabs is a leading provider of high-performance email marketing solutions to agencies, publishers and marketing departments of middle-market and Global 2000 companies. The EmailLabs email marketing platform is provided as an ASP (Web-based) service, and is easily integrated with a company's Web site, sales force automation and CRM technologies through EmailLabs' application programming interface (API). For the fourth consecutive year, EmailLabs has been recognized by ASPnews.com as one of the Top 50 ASPs worldwide and as a Top 25 Service Provider for the Software-as-a Service (SaaS) and Business Service Provider category. The company provides email marketing solutions to more than 550 companies, including Nokia, Agilent, PalmSource and Jupitermedia. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., EmailLabs was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Lyris, Inc. (OTCBB:JLHY). For more information, visit www.EmailLabs.com.