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To: Steve Sanchez who wrote (699)	8/7/1998 9:36:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 810

TAVA MANAGEMENT & NEW BUSINESS - Updated Aug 7 '98 ============================================================= CEO & President, John Jenkins Hired January '95 to clean up and refocus corporate strategy. Action has been aggressive: non-core businesses have been sold, administrative overhead reduced and growth put on a fast track pace through acquisitions. Jenkins has broad domestic and international operating experience in technology intensive businesses with divisional profit and loss responsibility in a Fortune 200 company. He holds both and Engineering and Law degree. VENTURE RETURNS "Turn-Around" Story: tomorrowcast.com Senior V.P. Sales, Larry Hagewood Joined TAVA June '97. Previously with Elsag Bailey, where during his six year tenure as part of the senior management team, Elsag Bailey grew from a $350 MILLION company, principally based in the United States, to a major global corporation with sales of greater than $2 BILLION & offices located in 25 countries. Elsag Bailey is a supplier of process control systems, services, and instrumentation products to a wide variety of industry sectors including power generation and distribution, pulp and paper, chemical and petroleum, mining and metals, and general industries. Services offered include systems design, integration and development; engineering; manufacturing and checkout; installation supervision; commissioning; operator training; and continuing field service. V.P., Business Development, Ken Owen Joined TAVA August '97. Previous Director of Systems Integration at FLUOR DANIEL, and an early leader in the recognition of Year 2000 issues in factory automation systems. Ken has over twenty-five years of senior-level business and IT consulting, IS management, and executive operations management experience within the manufacturing industry. Related information systems experience includes all aspects of improving the total performance of manufacturing operations through strategic planning, process reengineering, solutions development and systems integration and implementation management. CFO, Doublas Kelsall June '97 named as CFO. Previous 2 years CFO & VP of Finance for Evolving Systems, Inc., (ESI), a developer of computer software and professional services, with more than 300 employees. Mr. Kelsall's tenure at Evolving Systems, Inc. was highlighted by a dramatic improvement in the financial position of the Company, including an increase in gross profit margins, decrease in expenses, and the redirection of product mix to focus on the development of proprietary products. COO, Kevin Fallon December '96 joined TAVA as COO. Previously Fallon was president & CEO of All Control Systems, Inc., which he founded in 1982, and which TAVA acquired in December '96. TAVA\|R.W. BECK: Rick Cowles Prior to joining TAVA\|R.W. Beck in Apr '98 as Director, Industry Solutions, Cowles had been the Utilities Year 2000 Program Manager for DEC (Digital Equipment Corp). Rick is widely regarded as the leading expert on Year 2000 issues within electric utilities. He is the author of Electric Utilities & Y2K and maintains the highly regarded "Electric Utilities & Y2K" website: euy2k.com - His extensive analysis of Y2K issues in the electric utility industry was featured regularly in Westergaard 2000. He has been a witness for subcommittee hearings on utility readiness, and is frequently quoted by the media on these issues. GM, Consulting Division - Tom Bruhn Former Director of Business Development at Raytheon Automation. Newest Board Member - Judith Draper Y2K Director, Computer Sciences Corp. *Formerly headed Social Security Administration's Year 2000 Effort.* ========================================================= TAVA TECHNOLOGIES: Nov '97 thru July '98 ========================================================= FEBRUARY - JULY '98: - Chevron - Coca Cola - Polaroid (11 worldwide sites) - Boise Cascade - City of Los Angeles Dept of Water & Power, largest municipality in U.S. - County of Los Angeles - Rio Tinto, world's largest Metal & Mining Corporation - Y2K Africa, subsidiary of Eskom - state utility of South Africa TAVA/BECK - Indian Govt & ET and T Corp - Major Pharmaceutical Company (26 sites worldwide) - Un-named Master Consulting Agreement, 1200 worldwide sites JANUARY '98: - General Motors - Kraft Foods - Pillsbury - TRW - Occidental Petroleum - UNOCAL - Cargill - Medeva Pharmaceuticals - The US Mint DECEMBER '97: - Bristol-Meyers (125 sites worldwide) NOVEMBER '97: - Cyprus Amax Minerals - Kennecott Energy - Unilever Foods North America - TRIPLED Y2K Budget after TAVA Assessment *FOR FULL DETAILS* Message 5380702 India - NEW: Message 5403229 Message 5405476 TAVA WEB-SITE: tavatech.com TAVA WHITE PAPER tavatech.com FORTUNE MAGAZINE: Message 5064067