eShare Technologies Strengthens Focus in New Year and Appoints Top-Level Executives.

COMMACK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 1999--

Continuing to Grow as the Market Leader, eShare

Announces New Executive Team

eShare Technologies, a leading provider of Internet-based human interaction software, today announced several strategic executive appointments designed to further strengthen the company's leading market position. James Tito co-founder, CEO and former president will expand his executive role as CEO and has been promoted to chairman. To support Tito's focus on eShare's overall strategic and financial goals, Doris Granatowski, former COO/CFO, has been promoted to president. eShare has also appointed Glenn Reyer as vice president of marketing and Scott Manning vice president of sales. Neil Toomb, who joined the company in June, has been promoted to executive vice president of sales and business development.

Steve Robbins, analyst with Yankee Group, estimates that all Web-based interaction will be a growing market through the year 2001, growing from about $35M in 1998 to almost $600 million. These appointments further strengthen eShare's commitment to the Internet-based human interaction market and demonstrate the company's dedication to this growing market segment.

"As chairman of eShare Technologies, I will continue to lead the organization in developing strategic and financial goals for the coming year," said James Tito, co-founder and chairman of eShare Technologies. "The additional executive appointments complete our strong management team and enable an integrated business approach from strategy to marketing and sales that will help drive eShare to the next millennium."

Tito and Granatowski have helped the company grow from four to more than sixty employees and win more than 1,500 customers in less than 2 years. Tito has extensive experience in the development and expansion of fast-growing companies. Since co-founding the company, Tito's vision has propelled the company into the number one leadership position in the marketplace. Granatowski's promotion is in recognition of her strong contribution to the company's growth in 1998.

As president of eShare Technologies, Granatowski will direct the day-to-day business operations of the company and assume responsibility for all core-operating units including finance, engineering, sales, and marketing. She brings a wealth of experience in driving forward successful, high-growth companies in the global enterprise software market.

Granatowski's success in the high-tech industry stems from her unique ability to transition young companies into mature, robust corporations. She is most recognized in the industry as having served as vice president of operations, and later, executive vice president of operations and corporate marketing for Cheyenne Software.

Previously, Granatowski served as chief operating officer of eShare Technologies. Before that, she served as president and chief operating officer of World Merchandise Exchange, Inc. (WOMEX), an early-stage venture providing online global service for sourcing general merchandise worldwide. In this role, Granatowski redefined the company's business model and created a profit-driven marketing strategy to achieve financial objectives.

From 1988-1994, Granatowski was managing director and senior vice president at Imrex Systems International Ltd., the European subsidiary of Imrex Computer Systems, Inc., a logistics and financial applications software developer for IBM's AS/400 platform. She is also a certified public accountant.

Vice President of Marketing Glenn Reyer will develop and execute the marketing strategy for eShare. Reyer brings more than 25 years of computer software industry experience to eShare, as both a strategic marketer and software engineer. He joined eShare from EC Cubed, an e-commerce software provider.

Scott Manning will be responsible for the growth and development of eShare's sales and its strategy to meet revenue objectives. Previously, Manning was vice president of sales at Computer Associates International where he was responsible for ongoing development and management of sales for New York and Connecticut.

Toomb will lead all sales and business development activities for eShare Technologies. He brings an in-depth knowledge of the industry to his sales initiative at eShare. Prior to joining eShare Technologies, Toomb held several executive-level positions at Computer Associates International.

Co-founder Bradley Birnbaum retains his role as chief technology officer. Birnbaum's current focus is assessing the multitude of new human interaction applications such as voice, videoconferencing and whiteboarding and setting the wheels in motion for integration into existing eShare Technologies products.

About eShare Technologies

eShare Technologies, Inc. (www.eshare.com) delivers powerful enterprise-class interaction software and services that are crucial for eBusiness. These innovative technologies include web-based customer service and support, customer self-service, live conferencing and events, distance learning, Community chat, threaded discussion forums and custom integration tools. Current eShare Technologies clients include AOL, AT&T WorldNet Service, Computer Associates, GeoCities, Lycos, networkMCI, UUNet, the University of Florida, Pfizer, Bertelsmann, Columbia University, Hewlett Packard, Xerox and 1-800-FLOWERS.