DevelopOnline Announces New Executives; CTO, VP Sales and PR Director Bring New Expertise to Staff.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2000

DevelopOnline Corp., leading in collaborative Web-based electronic product development, Tuesday announced the appointments of three additional executives.

Joining the staff as chief technology officer (CTO) is David Mandala, who most recently was senior engineering director of Linuxcare.

Joining DevelopOnline as vice president of sales is Michael C. Dillon, a former Fortune 50 executive who brings more than 30 years of focused sales and marketing experience to DevelopOnline.

Joining the staff as PR director is Sara Killingsworth, who most recently operated Marketing Services, her own media relations consulting company.

Alan Steinberg, DevelopOnline's president/chief executive officer, said, "We are very happy to have these industry experts on board at DevelopOnline. Mike Dillon's previous experience proves that he can take advantage of our growing sales opportunities.

"David Mandala brings to us Linux OS expertise as well as online training experience, both of which we need at DevelopOnline. We knew Sara from her years at Intel and know that she has been successful with other open source companies. We regard Mike, David and Sara as significant new management and technology assets to DevelopOnline."

Chief Technology Officer, David Mandala

Mandala, new CTO at DevelopOnline, has more than 25 years professional experience in the high-technology industry. Mandala has focused his career on interactive technologies. At Linuxcare, Mandala was responsible for all special engineering projects.

Before Linuxcare, he was CTO at Online Partners, a leading developer of Web-based communities. Instrumental in designing and implementing the first member-to-member paging technologies on the Internet, Mandala also founded two multimedia companies, Compu-Vid and THEM Productions.

Compu-Vid produced more than 190 projects, mostly interactive applications, including the Interactive Multimedia Presentation System, a stand-alone hardware/software training kiosk for large audiences. At THEM Productions, Mandala's team produced the first 3DO CD-ROM to ship and a nationwide information kiosk system for DAT.

While at Linuxcare, Mandala taught a variety of programming concepts and Linux classes at local universities throughout the San Francisco and San Jose areas.

Vice President of Sales, Michael Dillon

Dillon, new vice president of sales at DevelopOnline, has most recently held senior executive-level sales and marketing positions in the Internet start-up arena with companies such as Internet portal company, What's For Free, and PrintConnect.net, a business-to-business E-commerce company.

At both companies, Dillon established and implemented the marketing and sales infrastructure and acquired a significant number of clients and strategic partnerships prior to product launch.

Dillon also spent more than 10 years in the printer industry segment, with PrePress Solutions Inc. and Delphax Systems, following earlier years spent at Honeywell Information Systems, Digital Equipment Corp., Cadmus Computer Systems and Apollo Computer. At Digital he pioneered successful major account programs that were adopted worldwide.

Dillon has demonstrated considerable ability in increasing sales at the companies for which he worked. Moreover, he has been very successful with alliance programs at the companies.

Dillon received his bachelor of applied science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto and formal management training through Babson College and the University of Southern California's Executive Programs.

Press Relations Director, Sara Killingsworth

Computer/chip industry veteran, Killingsworth has practiced marketing communications and public relations for more than 25 years. In her own firm for the last several years, she has consulted for open-source software companies, including Cygnus Solutions (now Red Hat), TimeSys Corp. and Zend Technologies (PHP).

Prior to consulting, she spent 10 years at Intel in senior public relations assignments where she drove embedded product public relations for multiple divisions and coordinated with other companies in collaborative industry efforts, including TAPI, PCIbus, USB, Indeo Video and I2O.

Killingsworth was a technology editor for CMP publications in the mid-80s after serving as manager of marketing communications for Zilog for five years. She received her bachelor of arts degree in English from Arizona State University where she has also done post-graduate studies.

About DevelopOnline

With open-source hardware platforms for an open-source software environment, DevelopOnline has changed the development paradigm for electronic products. DevelopOnline resources collapse development cycle time and decrease time-to-market for the shorter lived, new wave of electronic products -- from cell phones to Internet devices.

The company's site enables innovators, engineers and programmers to build state-of-the-art electronic products over the Internet and get them to market faster. DevelopOnline's collaborative knowledge base shortens the trial-and-error period for product developers.