Manaris Corporation Announces Change in Leadership at C-Chip Technologies

Manaris Corporation (OTCBB: MANS)(FRANKFURT WKN: 255471) is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Marie-Annick Riel as President of C-Chip Technologies (North America), a wholly owned subsidiary of Manaris.

Marie-Annick brings tremendous experience to C-Chip. Her recent tenure as Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Avensys, one of Manaris' subsidiaries, coupled with 15 years of experience in the telecom and telemetry industry will serve to assist C-Chip in meeting set objectives.

"We are confident that Ms. Riel's industry sales, marketing and distribution channel management expertise spanning small and growing organizations to larger and more established ones will strongly contribute to C-Chip's overall performance," said John Fraser, President and Chief Executive Officer of Manaris Corporation.

Ms. Riel held a number of management positions of growing responsibilities for Bell Canada and Nortel. She was successfully involved with customer engineering, product management, marketing and sales as General Manager (National Accounts). Subsequently, she occupied executive positions in marketing, business development and sales at Proxima, Simpler Networks and New IT Technologies where she was Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Marie-Annick holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering from McGill University.

"I am very pleased to have the opportunity to contribute my skills and experience to further C-Chip's evolution. With the recent launch of the 200G device, I believe that that there are good opportunities for C-Chip in the marketplace and look forward to leading the Company's successful deployment throughout North America and eventually abroad," commented Ms. Riel.

Ms. Riel replaces Claude Arbour who has resigned to join iMetrik, C-Chip's business and R&D partner as well as developer of the recent 200G GSM device. Mr. Fraser stated: "We would like to thank Claude for his dedication over the past year and look forward to maintaining close ties with Claude as he moves on to join iMetrik."

About Manaris Corporation

Manaris Corporation, through its two wholly owned subsidiaries, offers risk mitigation solutions. C-Chip Technologies (North America) specializes in the high-tech sector of the security industry, offering technology that allows business users to efficiently access, control, manage and monitor remote assets at low costs. Avensys enables businesses to monitor different types of environments, including air, soil and water, as well as buildings and materials. Avensys also produces fiber optic components and sensors. For more information please visit www.manariscorp.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this news release are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause a company's actual results, performance and achievement in the future to differ materially from forecasted results, performance, and achievement. These risks and uncertainties are described in the Company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes in the Company's plans or expectations.

Contacts: Manaris Corporation John Fraser President and CEO 514-337-2447

Zenergy Communications Linda Farha President 514-273-4034 linda@zenergycom.com

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