bTrade.com Attracts Top Executive Talent to Management Team.

Business Editors

LAS COLINAS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 2000

bTrade.com, a global provider of IP-based solutions designed to enable the rapid integration of e-Business technologies, networks and trading partners, today announced three key appointments to further strengthen its management team: Ralph Berwanger, Senior Consultant for Standards and Emerging Technology; Steven Sogar, President of Strategic Technology Partnerships; and James Williams, President of Strategic Industry Alliances.

A well-known industry expert, Mr. Berwanger is an active member of the Electronic Business XML (ebXML) Initiative. In addition, he has served since 1996 as Chairman of the X12 Data Security Working Group of the American National Standards Institute Accredited Standards Committee X12 (ANSI ASC X12) and has recently been elected to the position of ASC X12 vice chair. Berwanger is also the U.S. representative to the Management Team of the Electronic Data Interchange Group within the United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/EDIFACT) and Chairman of the Security Syntax Group for UN/EDIFACT's Joint Syntax Working Group. Finally, Berwanger serves on various committees within the International Standards Organization.

Berwanger brings an extensive understanding of market trends, business processes and emerging technologies to each of the above organizations. More importantly, as a result of his leadership roles across multiple organizations, Berwanger serves as a key focal point in standards bodies' efforts to harmonize the various standards they represent.

Mr. Sogar and Mr. Williams are responsible for cultivating the company's partnerships and alliances, helping to establish bTrade.com as a major force in the e-Business market. Further, both work to maintain strategic relationships between bTrade.com's customers and trading partners. While Mr. Sogar's focus is on hardware and software vendors, Mr. Williams is accountable for building and managing relationships with key industry sectors such as healthcare and supply chain.

"These appointments reinforce bTrade.com's commitment to strengthening its position as a leader in the e-Business market through increased visibility, alliances and partnerships," said David Lonsdale, CEO and Chairman of bTrade.com. "We are proud to welcome these executives with such extensive knowledge, experience, and proven entrepreneurial background to our already solid management team."

Prior to joining bTrade.com, Berwanger was the Director of Finance for XEN Corporation in Fairfax, Virginia, recently bought by CACI Ltd. Before that, he was Training Director at EDI Integration Corporation. Berwanger also served 21 years in the United States Air Force.

Sogar previously held a senior position at Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation where he introduced the next generation of fault-tolerant and general-purpose servers for the telecommunications industry. Before that, he was part of the Xerox launch group that introduced Ethernet and Windows to the marketplace.

Before joining bTrade.com, Williams was Chief Information Officer at Em Care, a Laidlaw company. While at Em Care, Williams was responsible for leading the complete technological overhaul and integration of the company's systems infrastructure and ensuring the company's Y2K readiness. Other experience includes a post as Senior Principal of Perot Systems Corporation, and as Chief Operations Officer at several hospitals. Currently, Williams is a member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), and the American Institute of Computer Sciences.

About bTrade.com

bTrade.com (www.bTrade.com) provides comprehensive infrastructure solutions that link e-Business partners and communities, whether Internet- or legacy-based, without requiring changes to any existing applications. With a mission of building and deploying e-Business networks, bTrade.com enables customers to extend their existing business model to the Internet while dramatically reducing, if not eliminating, the associated risk, complexity, time and cost.

bTrade.com's experience includes more than 10 years of providing highly secure, reliable and rapidly deployable e-Business solutions to a Global 2000 customer base comprising over 100,000 trading partners.