Concierge Announces Planned Addition of Samuel C.H. Wu to Company's Post-Merger Board of Directors.

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2000

Concierge Inc., which has announced plans to merge with StarFest Inc. (OTCBB:SFST), today announced that Samuel C.H. Wu is expected to become a member of the company's post-merger board of directors.

Wu has served on Concierge's Management Advisory Committee since formation of that group and was an early investor in Concierge. Concierge's bylaws provide for a five-member board, all of whose seats are occupied; however, it is anticipated that the board will be expanded following completion of the proposed merger.

With nearly 20 years of experience in engineering, banking and finance, Wu has played a pivotal role in developing and managing national and international business-activity relationships for organizations in the public and private sectors.

He was a senior marketing/credit officer with the Bank of America-World Banking Division in Tokyo, London and Hong Kong before founding Woodsford Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd. Under Wu's guidance, Hong Kong-based Woodsford has become a pre-eminent firm in the area's import/export and financial markets. Wu is also a principal and director of several other firms with worldwide business interests.

Wu is fluent in English, Japanese and a number of Chinese dialects. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his BSEE degree in electronics and computer sciences and was awarded an MBA degree. He has also taken advanced studies in manufacturing, quality assurance and community medicine.

Allen E. Kahn, Concierge's president and chief executive officer, said: "Sam Wu has been actively involved in the affairs of Concierge since the company's inception. He was a valued friend and adviser even before creation of the original PCA product concept and was instrumental in formation of the company and development of our strategic direction.

"Sam has extensive involvement in major business and financial activities not only in Asia, but worldwide, and his addition to the post-merger board will add a new dimension to the broad range of talent and experience already available to the company. I'm very pleased that he has agreed to accept a directorship contingent upon approval of our pending merger."

Concierge was founded by Kahn to design, market and support a new class of unified messaging products. These products integrate voice technology and pioneering software as a solution to the remote-access needs of Internet e-mail, fax and voice-mail users. The company is preparing to introduce a moderately priced software package with a $39.95 purchase price, the Personal Communications Attendant.

The company also plans to offer a server-based product that will enable corporate users to gain access to their important e-mail from inconvenient locations such as airplanes, airports or other locations where computer access is unavailable. It will connect to a modem bank providing the same capabilities available in the single-user version to multiple users. Each user can access e-mail by calling in on any telephone anywhere in the world, providing a user ID and password by simply speaking to the computer. The computer with PCA will then read the customer's e-mail messages aloud.

Once deployed, the server-based PCA product can be seamlessly integrated with call-center applications such as Siebel, Vantive or Clarify to provide traveling customers with up-to-the-minute information. Concierge plans continued enhancements to the PCA, including full unified messaging, foreign-language versions and a version for visually or manually impaired individuals, and has additional unique products under development.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe-harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. The company disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.