HotOffice Appoints Vice Presidents of Marketing and Sales - Continuing Rapid Growth of Its Key Management Team.

BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1999--

Experienced Duo will Catapult Branding and Open

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HotOffice Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has appointed Steve Spiro, ex-Audible vice president, and G.P. Michael "Mickey" Freeman, known for his successful launch of Sprint's Internet Passport service, as part of its executive management team. Spiro will continue to lead the Company's marketing and branding initiatives, and Freeman will head HotOffice's sales and business development strategies and execution.

Spiro has more than 20 years of marketing and sales experience in the Internet and communications fields, including more than 15 years with Motorola, where most recently he was general manager of EMBARC, the company's nationwide one-way data network service division. Spiro also was director of Motorola's $80 million Customer Owned Paging division, as well as business manager of Motorola's $600 million U.S. Subscriber Paging Division. Prior to joining HotOffice, Spiro was vice president of sales and marketing for Audible, Inc., the first company to use the Internet to digitally deliver spoken audio content from an online store for mobile playback via a handheld peripheral. Spiro received his MBA and his bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of Rhode Island.

Freeman has had extensive sales, marketing and business development experience as director of marketing for Sprint Wholesale, where he was responsible for marketing strategy, market research and analysis, marketing communications, and events marketing. Previously at Sprint, he directed the marketing launch of Sprint Internet Passport, managed the annual and quarterly strategic planning processes for Sprint's Consumer Services Group, and served as a market manager for the Business Traveler and FONCARD marketing teams. Freeman has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in Broadcasting & International Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

"We're continuing to attract the very best of talent as the market opportunity for HotOffice is beginning to prove itself," said R. Michael Franz, chairman and CEO of HotOffice Technologies, Inc. "Both Steve and Mickey have a thorough understanding of the Internet space and what is driving businesses to adopt our technology. They are poised to take that knowledge and turn HotOffice into a leading brand on the Net."

About HotOffice Technologies, Inc.

Based in Boca Raton, Fla., HotOffice Technologies, Inc. (www.hotoffice.com) develops the HotOffice Web-based Intranet Service, which offers small businesses, telecommuters and mobile office workers an affordable hosted intranet at a fraction of the cost of purchasing and maintaining a traditional system. The service provides easy access to e-mail, group calendar, contact manager, online conferencing, document sharing, Internet telephony and other business services and can be accessed from any computer with a Web connection.

HotOffice received the Editors' Choice Award by PC Magazine and was named the Best Small Office Internet Solution by syndicated columnist/NBC "Today Show" correspondent Andy Pargh (the "Gadget Guru"). HotOffice was founded in 1995 and is funded in part by Intel Corporation and TBG Information Investors, a partnership of Blumenstein/Thorne Information Partners and GS Capital Partners II, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs Group.