ChipCenter Adds Alex Mendelsohn to Top Online Editorial Team; Joins as Senior Technology Editor of Information and Sourcing Site for Electronics Engineers.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2000

ChipCenter, LLC (www.chipcenter.com), the Internet's premier destination for engineers and purchasers in the electronics OEM industry, announced the appointment of Alex Mendelsohn as senior technology editor to its growing staff of full-time editors. Mendelsohn, former chief editor of Pennwell Inc.'s Portable Design, will cover Test and Measurement for ChipCenter. He will also contribute to the site's overall editorial strategy.

"Alex Mendelsohn is a great addition to an already experienced editorial staff where he can provide new insights and perspective," said Girish Mhatre, CEO of ChipCenter and former Group Publisher of CMP Media. "His appointment reinforces our commitment to providing content designed to help engineers do their jobs more efficiently and effectively, and to implementing new approaches to this rapidly expanding market for information and services."

Mendelsohn joins ChipCenter after serving a successful term at VerticalNet where he was the Managing Editor of Computer OEM Online. Prior to VerticalNet, Mendelsohn held senior editorial positions at publications such as Integrated Circuits and EE Product News. He has authored texts for military and commercial systems and has held faculty positions at Grumman Aerospace Data Systems Institute and Briarcliffe College.

"Alex will be part of a top-rank editorial team bringing together advanced content for our growing professional readership," Chief Editor Jack Shandle said. "ChipCenter is organized and staffed to take full advantage of the unique capabilities of the Web, and it has proven to be a winning formula for everyone who interacts with the site."

The addition of Mendelsohn brings ChipCenter's total number of weekly editorial contributors to more than 40. ChipCenter's staff of technical editors now includes four former chief editors: Chief Editor Jack Shandle, former Chief Editor of Electronic Design; Executive Editor Murray Slovick, former Chief Editor of IEEE Spectrum; and Paul Schreier, former Chief Editor of Personal Engineering and Instrumentation News.

ChipCenter's editorial staff already includes respected technology journalists such as Steve Ciarcia, Chief Editor of Circuit Cellar; Analog Editor Paul McGoldrick; Communications Editor Lee Goldberg; Murray Disman, Chief Editor of Programmable Logic News and Views and other newsletters; and Dennis Fitzgerald, former Managing Editor of EBN. ChipCenter has also attracted proven performers in the engineering discipline to act as consulting editors, and more than 20 electronic engineers who write regularly for its Guides and Experts section adding a highly practical perspective to the articles, resource pages and other content that are added to the site each day.

A complete listing of ChipCenter's editorial staff can be found at www.chipcenter.com/contacts/ and biographies of contributors to the Guides and Experts section can be found at http://www.chipcenter.com/eexperts/

About ChipCenter, LLC

ChipCenter, LLC, is the first comprehensive online service for electronic-component information and sourcing. A joint venture of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW), Aspect Development, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASDV), Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), CMP Media, Inc., and Pioneer-Standard Electronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PIOS), ChipCenter is a new kind of marketing channel that integrates demand creation, interest fulfillment and e-commerce transactions in one seamless service, allowing engineers and purchasing agents to learn, find and buy at one convenient location. For more information, visit http://www.chipcenter.com