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Technology Stocks : BillServ.Com(BLLS) Going for the EBPP Market Small Billers -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: EPro who wrote (223)	4/8/1999 9:17:00 AM
From: AugustWest	Respond to of 918

billserv.com, Inc. Appoints Tony Sidiropoulos as Director of Marketing Sidiropoulos Noted for Managing Electronic Billing Pilot Program At Southern California Edison SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 1999-- billserv.com, Inc. (OTC BB:BLLS - news), a leading electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) service bureau, today announced that Tony Sidiropoulos has joined the company as director of marketing. Sidiropoulos, who joins billserv.com from a consulting project with Southern California Edison Company (NYSE: EIX - news), brings extensive electronic billing industry experience, including managing the first EBPP pilot program of its kind for Southern California Edison (SCE), the second largest utility in the U.S. During his work at SCE, Sidiropoulos managed its widely noted EBPP pilot program, in addition to managing strategic EBPP partner relationships, including (NASDAQ: CKFR - news) CheckFree. Last month, billserv.com announced an agreement with CheckFree whereby billserv.com will transmit billing information from its base of biller customers to CheckFree, enabling CheckFree to provide electronic billing and payment services to the growing number of consumers who want to pay their bills electronically. ''Tony's vast industry experience and direct involvement in managing electronic bill presentment and payment projects and his relationships with many of our partners such as CheckFree, will bring tremendous value to billserv.com'' said Michael Long, billserv.com CEO. ''We're very excited to have Tony on board, and see him as strategic member of our management team. ''billserv.com has identified an important niche of small- to medium-sized billers, and has developed a great business strategy to support it,'' Sidiropoulos said. ''I'm excited about the opportunity to help drive billserv.com's marketing programs, drawing upon my previous market experience and strong relationships with the partners that are important to the company.'' Sidiropoulos' background also includes key positions at XEROX Corporation, Quark, Inc. and Alisa Systems. About billserv.com, Inc. billserv.com, Inc. (NASD OTC BB: BLLS) is an electronic bill present and payment service bureau that provides small- to medium-sized billers with a turnkey outsourcing solution for presenting bills to consumers for payment on the Internet. billserv.com serves an intermediary role between billers and bill consolidators by aggregating customer billing information from multiple billers, and then securely delivering it to consolidators. billserv.com's core product, eServ, seamlessly integrates with billers' existing legacy systems, without requiring any changes to those systems. The company has four product offerings: Internet billing clearinghouse services, ePublishing, customer care services and professional consulting services. For additional information, visit www. billserv.com or call 210/402-5000. Certain statements contained herein are ''forward-looking'' statements (as such term is defined in the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995). Because such statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: billserv.com Inc., San Antonio Investor Relations Contact: 888/559-4184 billserv.com