HomePage.com Appoints Gouri Jha Senior Vice President of Client Services and Operations.

Business Editors/Technology Writers

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2000

HomePage.com, the leading Net-native ASP of home pages, personalized pages and front-end applications driving the customer economy, today announced that Gouri Jha has joined the company as senior vice president of Client Services and Operations.

Jha is a 10-year information technology veteran who brings an impressive track record in next-generation product innovation, integration and client management to HomePage.com. He will be responsible for the Company's client services, product development and technical operations and will report to HomePage.com chief executive officer, Tim Cahill.

Immediately prior to joining HomePage.com, Jha served as senior vice president of Client Services at iXL Inc. (Nasdaq:IIXL), a leading strategic Internet services company, where he managed more than 200 employees and $40 million in operations.

He was responsible for spearheading the development of the company's account management, financial, business development and operational processes, resulting in more than $5 million in profit for the Los Angeles office in one year. During his tenure at iXL, Jha also developed strategic alliances and partnerships with several key e-business players, including Broadvision and Intel.

"Gouri's expertise in client services and operational processes of technology companies will help steer HomePage.com through our next phase of rapid development," said Cahill. "We are extremely fortunate to have Gouri on board to help execute our company's global ASP strategy."

Prior to iXL, Jha was senior manager of Information Technology for Andersen Consulting, where he led teams of consultants on a broad range of strategic and organizational planning and engineering projects for Andersen's Global 2000 clients.

From 1994 to 1996, he served as a technical adviser with Federal Express, tasked with designing the company's next-generation Windows(R)-based shipping system, which increased yearly revenue by more than $27 million.

"I'm impressed with HomePage.com's customer-facing value proposition and growth potential in the dynamic ASP space," said Jha. "HomePage.com has already developed a stellar reputation as an applications hoster and technology innovator and I'm looking forward to building on that success."

Jha holds a master of management degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, a master of computer science degree from Wayne State University and a bachelor of computer engineering degree from the University of Poona, India.

About HomePage.com

HomePage.com (www.homepage.com) is the leading Net-native application service provider of home pages, personalized pages and front-office applications driving the customer economy. The Company's complementary proprietary and enterprise software enables online businesses to build, manage and extend relationships with consumers through a complete, hosted end-to-end solution.

HomePage.com's clients are Global 2000 companies, including AOL's ICQ, AltaVista, Discovery Communications, BET and PETsMART.com, among others. Founded in 1999, HomePage.com is backed by idealab!, idealab Capital Partners, J. & W. Seligman, Moore Capital Management, JUMP Investors and Robertson Stephens affiliates. HomePage.com is a member of the ASP Consortium. The Company is based in Los Angeles.

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