Upland Properties Inc. Names Three New Members to its Board of Directors.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 1998--Upland Properties, I(OTC Bulletin Board OTC Bulletin Board An electronic quotation listing of the bid and asked prices of OTC stocks that do not meet the requirements to be listed on the NASDAQ stock-listing system. :UPPI) Upland Properties (Symbol UPPI OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :BB) announced today the selection of three new members to its Board of Directors. The selection of the three new Directors was made in accord with the previously announced agreement between Upland and World Wide Wireless, Inc. The new Board of Directors now totals five as provided for in the Upland/World Wide agreement. Douglas P. Haffer, who was appointed to the Board and named President of the Company in April in connection with the Upland/World Wide agreement, remains on the Board and is its chairman. Prior to his selection as President, Mr. Haffer practiced law in San Francisco, Beverly Hills and Washington, D.C. for twenty-five years. During that period he had served as general counsel and/or vice president, and had been a director, of several corporations, including Commercial Bank of San Francisco, Aca Joe, Inc., Finet Holdings Corporation, World Wide Wireless, Inc., and UniPrise Systems, Inc. His legal practice concentrated primarily on providing legal counseling to small or start-up businesses. Mr. Haffer attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1965 to 1969 where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa Phi Beta Kappa: see fraternity. Phi Beta Kappa Leading academic honour society in the U.S., which draws its membership from college and university students. The oldest Greek-letter society in the U.S. . He then attended the Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Law is considered one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. from which he graduated in 1972. He was admitted to the California Bar that same year and to 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). Bar in 1978. For the past several years, Mr. Haffer has represented World Wide Wireless, Inc. and TSI Technologies, Inc., the two companies whose assets have recently been acquired by Upland. Mr. Haffer resides in Oakland and Orange County, California Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. Its county seat is Santa Ana. According to the 2000 Census, its population was 2,846,289, making it the second most populous county in the state of California, and the fifth most populous in the United States. . Robert Klein also remains on the Board of Directors. Mr. Klein has had an active twenty year career in the securities industry during which time he has handled a wide range of duties. He has been involved in management roles and institutional trading. For the past fifteen years, he has spent the majority of his time packaging complex transactions on behalf of corporate clients leading to the creation and sale of marketable securities. The past five years have been spent on public company development. He has served as a director for three brokerage firms, including Yorkton Securities. He is also currently a director of several other public and private corporations involved in resource management and light manufacture. Mr. Klein resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. The newly elected members of the Board are Randy Knapp, Kenneth O. Olson and Ramsey Sweis. Mr. Knapp, who was also appointed Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of the Company, was founder of KCG, a management consulting company. He has served as Chief Financial Officer and a member of the board of UniPrise Systems, Inc., a software developer, and RDI Computers, Inc., a computer manufacturer. Previously he was a member of board and Chief Financial Officer of Wilson Laboratories, was founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wespercorp (ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) A relational DBMS from Sybase that runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux and a variety of Unix platforms. ASE is a comprehensive and robust data management product with a long history dating back to the late 1980s. ) for nine years, and has held positions in senior management with MSI Data Corporation (ASE), Datum, Inc. (OTC), Invecom Systems, Inc. and the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). Lawrence-Livermore Laboratories. Mr. Knapp has served as Chairman of the American Electronics Association The American Electronics Association (now known as AeA) is a nationwide non-profit trade association that represents all segments of the technology industry in the United States. , Orange County Chapter. He is curriculum advisor to the Schools of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine and the School of Engineering at California State University Enrollment Kenn Olson, who was also appointed Executive Vice President, previously occupied a similar position for some five years with World Wide Wireless, Inc., TSI Technologies, Inc., and National MicroVision Systems, Inc. Those entities recently transferred their assets to Upland. In his role with the previous entities, Mr. Olson provided on-going services relating to FCC licensing, leasing and contract development, personnel matters, and other on-going operations of those companies. In addition to his management capabilities, Mr. Olson brings to Upland a unique familiarity with the operations of both the Wireless Internet system and the VDMA chipset research and development for which Upland has recently become responsible. Mr. Olson resides in Orange County, California. Ramsey Sweis has had extensive experience in management and in the product design industry. He has been a leader and developer of high performance teams by enabling, training and motivating team members. In the recent past he has provided computer and engineering services to General Motors and Chrysler Corporation. In connection with those activities Mr. Sweis has developed designs between engineering, prototype models, tooling and vendor sources. Mr. Sweis resides in Roseville, Michigan. Douglas P. Haffer, President
CONTACT: Upland Properties, Inc.
Douglas P. Haffer, 415/956-9190
415/391-3199 (Fax)
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