ADVISORY/CertCo's CEO and Former e-commerce Executive at Chase Manhattan to Discuss B2B Risk Assurance at Thunderbird's Global Week.

Business/Technology Editors

ADVISORY...for Friday (March 17)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

WHO:   June Felix CEO at CertCo, and former senior vice president,
       e-commerce at Chase Manhattan Bank

WHERE: Global Week Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of
       International Management Glendale, Ariz.

WHEN:  Friday, March 17, 2000 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. MST

WHAT:  Felix will discuss how Internet-based B2B risk assurance
       technologies will fuel the e-business explosion and enable
       global trading for virtual markets. She will explain how future
       risk assurance technology development will impact e-business
       expansion. Felix will also discuss the global patents and
       intellectual property that drive this technology. For
       Thunderbird students and other attendees, she will describe
       opportunities to participate in the B2B-enabling risk assurance
       field.

       Sponsored by Thunderbird, Global Week is a four-day conference
       during which senior executives from companies around the world
       give presentations regarding market trends and issues impacting
       their industries. Other speakers will include Orit Gadeish,
       chairman of the board of Bain Consulting; Joe Froschauer,
       director of global equities at Goldman Sachs; and executives
       from Motorola, Iomega and Ernst & Young.