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SoonR Names Industry Veterans William Stewart, Patrick McVeigh to Its Board of Directors.


CAMPBELL, Calif. -- SoonR, the first provider of secure mobile access to applications on your PC over any network from any handset, today announced that Patrick McVeigh and William Stewart have joined its board of directors.

William Stewart is currently Chairman of Sand Hill Capital (SHC SHC Sears Holdings Corporation (Hoffman Estates, ILt)
SHC Self-Help Clearinghouse (Valley Cottage, NY)
SHC Spring Hill College (Mobile, AL, USA)
SHC Solar Heating and Cooling
) and Founder/Chairman of Asia Pacific Ventures (APV APV

See: Adjusted Present Value
) and APV Technology Partners (APV TP). Mr. Stewart, as Founder of APV, an international consulting firm, has advised over 350 U.S. venture backed IT start-up companies in the Japan/Asia marketplace, raising more than $3 billion in equity, revenue, debt and joint venture financing over the past 15 years. APV clients have included Red Hat, Lexmark, Verisign, RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA.

(2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key.
, Flextronics, Intuit, AST (AST Computer, Irvine, CA) A PC manufacturer founded in 1980 by Albert Wong, Safi Quershey and Tom Yuen (A, S and T). It offered a complete line of PCs that sold through its dealer channel. , and hundreds of others. At APV TP, a venture capital firm, investments include Okena (sold to Cisco), Lexar Media, WebTV (sold to Microsoft), SecureTax.com (sold to Intuit), Packet Engines (sold to Alcatel), and others. Mr. Stewart is the founding General Partner of APV TP I, II and III with over $200 million in early stage venture funding under management. Mr. Stewart has been Chairman of Sand Hill Capital since 1998. SHC specializes in venture debt and has provided debt services to over 150 VC backed IT companies since 1996. Prior to founding the APV companies, Mr. Stewart was the first American executive in the headquarters of NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98).

NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd.
 Corporation in Tokyo, Japan.

Patrick McVeigh is Interim CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of PalmSource, Inc. PalmSource was recently acquired by Japanese mobile web-browser company Access (Tokyo Stock Exchange Tokyo Stock Exchange

Main stock market of Japan, located in Tokyo. It opened in 1878 to provide a market for the trading of government bonds newly issued to former samurai.
:4813). McVeigh has over 20 years of experience in the high technology and consumer electronics industry. He is the former CEO of Aliph Corporation and was chairman and CEO of Omnisky Corporation until it was acquired by Earthlink (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
:ELNK ELNK EarthLink, Inc. (stock symbol)
ELNK Ethernet Link
). McVeigh was with Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) where he was responsible for worldwide sales of all Palm products as well as international marketing and operations. Before joining Palm, McVeigh spent nearly 10 years with Apple Computer in a variety of sales positions.

"We are delighted to have board members of this stature help us manage our company growth," said Martin Frid-Nielsen, CEO and Founder of SoonR. "We plan to aggressively expand our SoonR service so we can extend our lead in providing consumers with the best cross-platform technologies that enable anywhere anytime access to all forms of information and media."

"I'm very excited to be joining the board of a company such as SoonR that boasts an exceptional team that has worked together for over 14 years and across multiple industries. The SoonR team has developed distinctive technology that lets consumers access information and applications stored on their PCs from over 300 handsets across the globe today," Said William Stewart. "SoonR is positioned well to make significant progress in its expansion strategy both in the U.S. and internationally in 2006."

"There have been considerable advancements in technology that make today's global market ideal for the SoonR service, affording the company the opportunity for unprecedented growth," said Patrick McVeigh "Hundreds of millions of people around the world save critical information to their PCs every day. The SoonR service is innovative in its approach to delivering information to the handset in a way that exploits the power of the desktop. I am pleased to join the SoonR board and I am excited about the company's prospects for success."

SoonR is privately held and funded by William Stewart and Patrick McVeigh as well as Thomvest Seed Capital, Inc.; Melinda Rogers of Rogers Communications, Inc.; Mogens Glad, Co-Founder of Borland; Jesper Mailind, President and CEO of GN ReSound; Irfan Salim, former President of Zone Labs; Tsuyoshi Tiara, CEO of Tazan International Inc.; Fred Felman, Principal at SFW SFW Science Fiction Weekly
SFW Safe for Work (website links)
SFW Solaris Freeware (open source software delivered in Solaris and supported by Sun)
SFW Sensor Fuzed Weapon
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 Partners; Craig Stanford, EVP EVP Executive Vice President
EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor
EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon
EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany)
EVP Employee Value Proposition
 of Sales & Business Development at PopularMedia, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
.; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati and additional individuals.

About SoonR, Inc.

SoonR enables secure mobile access over any mobile carrier's data network to applications on any Internet connected PC with the SoonR service. SoonR subscribers can search, read and send email, schedule meetings, manage contacts and share files instantly. Only the SoonR service supports MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). , Google desktop and X1 desktop search on mobile devices and SoonR's rich handset and carrier independent environment worldwide. SoonR works on any handset operating system including Palm, Microsoft, Blackberry, Symbian and others, and renders data optimally for the display screen of your handset. SoonR doesn't require synchronization or any additional software on the handset.

SoonR was founded in 2004 by a team that has successfully worked together across multiple companies and is based in both Silicon Valley and Denmark. The basic SoonR service is free. Data service is required and some SMS charges may apply. For more information, visit www.soonr.com

SoonR is a registered trademark of SoonR, Inc.

Palm, PalmSource, Microsoft, Blackberry and Symbian are trademarks of their respective owners.
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