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Xenos Appointments Coincide with Marketing Program, Growth

TORONTO, Ontario, December 8, 2003: Xenos Group Inc. (TSX: XNS), the data to e-content company™, today announced Management appointments to coincide with the Company's new marketing initiatives, corporate growth, and recent acquisitions.

Mr. William Kurtz has been appointed as Xenos' Vice President of Marketing and an officer of the company. Mr. Kurtz has served as a valuable member of the Xenos team since 2001, and most recently was Vice President of Sales. His approach was to partner with customers and deliver solutions that fit their requirements. Mr. Kurtz' detailed knowledge of Xenos markets and customers will carry forward into a customer-focused emphasis in the marketing area. He brought a disciplined and methodical approach to the Xenos sales team, resulting in quarterly and annual increases in sales revenues. Mr. Kurtz brings many years of experience to his new role, having held executive level sales and marketing positions. His prior positions include: Executive Vice President at Insci, an electronic archiving company, Director of e-Solutions Consulting at EDS, Director of Marketing at Digital Equipment Corporation and various sales and marketing management positions with IBM.

"I am pleased to welcome Bill to this leadership position in our strategic marketing efforts," stated Jim Farmer, President and COO of Xenos. "Following the commercial releases of our InfoWEB and d2e Vision software products and our recent acquisition of the GoXML products, raising market awareness of Xenos solutions is a priority. These new products have opened numerous new market segments for us and will be a core driver of our organic growth."

Xenos has budgeted a substantial increase for the marketing of its products and services. The marketing department will raise the awareness of Xenos products and services, initiate lead generation campaigns and develop materials and programs that demonstrate the value of its products.

The new versions of Xenos' flagship software platforms - infoWEB and d2e Vision - released in the last few quarters are being well received by the market. The acquisition of GoXML puts Xenos in the market for bridging incompatible proprietary applications to open standards, without the need to rewrite software or make changes to existing computer applications. Xenos is positioned for scalable growth in new horizontal, vertical and geographic markets. Xenos is leveraging its market opportunity by committing additional resources to its sales and marketing functions to drive broader market adoption and revenue growth.

Mr. Robert Kunihiro has been named Executive Vice President and CFO of Xenos. Mr. Kunihiro has served as the Vice President, Finance and CFO since joining the Company in March 2000.

Since joining Xenos in 2000, Mr. Kunihiro has been the key architect in reengineering the Company's business model and helped orchestrate a dramatic financial turnaround from substantial losses to profitability. To the end of fiscal 2003, Xenos has now recorded six consecutive quarters of positive earnings.

"Rob's no-nonsense and principled approach to responsible financial management has been instrumental in our financial turnaround, and he is a critical member of our acquisition team," stated Mr. Stuart Butts, Chairman and CEO of Xenos. "As our growth continues organically and through acquisition, I am confident that we have the right person in the top financial job in the Company."

The new appointment recognizes Mr. Kunihiro's role in the strategic direction of the Company.

About Xenos

Xenos (www.xenos.com) provides software and solutions that enable organizations to transform, re-purpose and distribute electronic content to support their e-business and print strategies.

Xenos d2e Platform™ transforms and re-purposes legacy printstreams into standard electronic formats (e-content) supporting both e-business and print strategies for applications such as electronic statement presentment, enterprise content management/archiving, print automation and customer relationship management.

Xenos d2e Vision™is our next-generation transformation software suite. Written in Java, d2e Vision supports Asian languages that use double-byte character sets. It is designed to be scalable and extensible for dynamic e-business solutions.
infoWEB™software enables organizations to extract, publish and disseminate critical business information throughout the enterprise. Once processed by infoWEB, clients can access this information using any standard Web Browser regardless of what platform, application or format the information was generated with.

Xenos partners with industry-leading software companies, such as IBM, to provide end-to-end solutions to customers. Xenos products are deployed at organizations worldwide, in industries including Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Telecommunications, Utilities, Service Bureaus, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing and Government. Xenos is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Dallas, Texas and the United Kingdom. Xenos trades on The Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "XNS", with approximately 8.9 million shares outstanding.

This press release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations. These forward-looking statements entail various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in these forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties about the company's business are more fully discussed in the Management Discussion and Analysis published in the company's annual report.

For more information, please contact:

Cory Pala
Investor Relations
Tel: +1 (416) 657-2400
Fax: +1 (416) 657-2300
E-mail: cpala@xenos.com

Jim Farmer
President and COO
Tel: +1 (214) 969-5341 ext. 5308
Fax: +1 (905) 709-1023
E-mail: jfarmer@xenos.com
Web: www.xenos.com

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