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To: John B. Dillon who wrote (3520)	10/6/1999 10:15:00 AM
From: Jules B. Garfunkel	Respond to of 3624

October 06, 1999 09:56 Laurent Gharda Joins eCode.com as Chief Operating Officer; Brings Over 20 Years of High Technology Leadership SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1999--eCode.com, the Internet's first and only online identity management service, today announced that Laurent Gharda has joined eCode.com as chief operating officer. "We are very excited to welcome Laurent Gharda to the eCode.com team as COO of the company," said Rohit Chandra, founder and CEO of eCode.com. "Laurent brings to eCode the high technology leadership expertise to help take eCode.com to the next level." As COO, Laurent Gharda will direct day-to-day operations and manage the company's growth. "I joined eCode.com because it is the major player in the new infrastructure category of identity management," said Laurent Gharda. "eCode.com enriches the experience of Internet users worldwide with convenient, portable and secure on-line identity services, while providing Internet service, content and e-commerce providers with subscriber registration services based on eCode's universal identity." Before joining eCode.com, Gharda served as vice president of marketing at Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: PTEC). Prior to that, Gharda was vice president of marketing for Award Software before it merged with Phoenix. In 1995 Gharda founded and was president of QualSoft Corp., a provider of Unix and Windows software development and migration tools. In 1996 QualSoft merged with Willows Software where Gharda served as vice president of marketing and sales until Willows was acquired by Award Software. Previously, Gharda was employed for five years at Veritas Software (Nasdaq:VRTS) and held a variety of positions including vice president of sales. Prior to Veritas, he worked for 10 years at Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HWP). Gharda earned a B.A. degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. eCode.com's Free Service and Innovative Features Help People Stay in Touch The eCode concept was born in 1997, when Rohit Chandra returned from a tradeshow with stacks of business cards that needed to be entered into his contact database. He imagined thousands of show attendees sitting at their desks entering the same information, only to have the information become out of date in a matter of months. Chandra decided there had to be a better method for keeping in touch. The result was eCode.com, a service that has quickly become the Internet's hub for contact information. Each member chooses a unique, permanent online user ID called an eCode. Connected with the eCode is all of the contact information the member chooses to provide. Members use their eCodes to create graphical online business cards called WEB cards and self-updating address books. Members update their information as needed, and the address books of their contacts always stay up-to-date. eCode.com provides a wide and ever-expanding range of compelling applications for eCode members. These applications include: AutoLogin(TM), a tool that automatically logs Internet users onto Web sites; AutoFiller(TM), a utility that automatically fills out Web forms with your contact information; and instant driving directions and maps from MapQuest.com (Nasdaq: MQST). About eCode.com Founded in 1997, privately held eCode.com is the first and only Internet User Identity Company. The company's eCode.com online identity service allows computer users to create self-updating online business cards and virtual address books. The company can be reached by eCode at eCodeInfo, on the Web at ecode.com, by email at info@eCode.com, by telephone at (408) 845-9400, and by mail at 2350 Mission College Blvd., Suite 777, Santa Clara, CA, 95054.