Lamar Alexander Becomes Newest Member of Link2Gov's Board of Directors.Business Editors/High-Tech & Government Writers NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2000 Link2Gov.com, Inc today announced that Lamar Alexander, former Governor of Tennessee, United States Secretary of Education The United States Secretary of Education is the head of the Department of Education. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet, and 14th in line of United States presidential line of succession. and President of the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. , has joined the Company's Board of Directors. Link2Gov is one of the nation's pre-eminent providers of advanced e-government solutions that enable citizens and businesses to complete transactions with the government over the Internet or telephone. Commenting on the announcement, Mr. Alexander said, "Whether they are buying hunting licenses or paying parking tickets, millions of people waste time and money every day waiting in line to deal with government. The best public officials are quickly finding new ways to use the Internet and the telephone to make dealing with government easier, faster and more efficient. "I am proud to join the Board of Directors of Link2Gov. The Company has assembled a first-rate team of talented individuals who are dedicated to using the most modern technology to make dealing with the government at all levels simpler and less expensive for everyone involved." Richardson M. Roberts, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company, also remarked, "We are very pleased that a man of Lamar Alexander's experience and capabilities has joined Link2Gov. Although he is better known for his service in the political and educational arenas, Governor Alexander is also a very successful entrepreneur, having co-founded CorporateFamily Solutions, a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. that merged to become Bright Horizons Family Solutions Bright Horizons Family Solutions is a US-based child-care provider and one of the largest publicly held child-care corporations in the world. The result of a merger in 1998 between Massachusetts-based Bright Horizons (Nasdaq: BFAM BFAM Brother from Another Mother BFAM Bioinformatics for the Analysis of Mammalian Genomes BFAM Budget Formulation & Appropriation Model ) the country's largest provider of worksite daycare. He also is chairman and co-founder of simplexis.com, which helps schools and other public institutions use the Internet to save money and time when buying goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. . We are confident that Link2Gov will greatly benefit from Governor Alexander's guidance and the expertise he has developed from his years serving the country in elected and appointed office and in business. His becoming a part of our team validates the strength of our organization, the need for its systems and the opportunity that exists to automate what are now still largely paper-based government-to-citizen and government-to-business transactions. We have a great team of directors and we warmly welcome Lamar Alexander to Link2Gov." Joining Mr. Roberts and Governor Alexander on Link2Gov's Board of Directors are: Kip R. Caffey, who is Director of Equity Capital Origination for The Robinson-Humphrey Company and formerly Partner and Managing Director in Corporate Finance for J.C. Bradford & Co. Mr. Caffey received his MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration degree from Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia. Michael McChesney, the founder of four successful technology companies based on the Internet: SecureWare, Inc.; Technologies, Inc.; S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE); and WebTone Technologies, Inc. The first two of these companies were sold to Hewlett Packard and e-Soft, respectively. S1 Corporation, whose subsidiary, Security First Network Bank, was the country's first Internet bank, today has a market capitalization of approximately $4.5 billion. Mr. McChesney received his MBA degree from the Wharton Graduate School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. and his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University. Mark McDonald, Chairman of Link2Gov's Board of Directors, who is a Partner in Newton Oldacre McDonald, one of the Southeast's most successful real estate developers. Mr. McDonald received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University. Link2Gov.com, Inc., with offices in Nashville, Tennessee, and Pompano Beach, Florida Pompano Beach is a city in Broward County, Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean just to the north of Fort Lauderdale. The Nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of 2006, the U.S. , is a leading provider of advanced e-government solutions that enable citizens and businesses to complete transactions with the government over the Internet or telephone. Link2Gov's unique G2C G2C Government to Citizen G2C Government to Consumer and G2B G2B Government to Business G2B Got to Bounce Solutions(TM) combine state-of-the-art web-based and interactive voice response e-government systems with sophisticated electronic marketing expertise to provide government constituents easy and timely alternative methods for government transactions, while providing governments increased compliance and operating efficiencies. The Company has contracts in operation or in development with governmental agencies in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Texas and Washington. For more information about the Company, please visit its web site at www.link2gov.com. |
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