To: SHGLaw who wrote (8569 ) 5/24/1999 8:09:00 PM From: S.C. Barnard Respond to of 19700
David Wetherell to be honored tonight in Boston Massachusetts Electronic Commerce Association Names 1999 Mass eComm 10 BOSTON (May 24) BUSINESS WIRE - May 24, 1999 -- Award Winners to be Honored Tonight at Westin Copley Place Boston The Massachusetts Electronic Commerce Association (Mass eComm) today announced the 1999 Mass eComm 10, the Association's pick of the ten most influential e-commerce leaders in New England. The winners are, in alphabetical order: Henry Bertolon, president & CEO of NECX; Matt Cutler, co-founder & chief e-business intelligence officer of net.Genesis; Robert J. Davis, president & CEO of Lycos; Gary Eichhorn, president & CEO of Open Market; Ralph J. Folz, co-founder & president of TVisions; Blaise Heltai, managing director of corporate Internet strategy for Fleet Financial Group; Anna Sabasteanski, chairman & vice president of practice management of Empresa; Jeet Singh, president & CEO of Art Technology Group; David S. Wetherell, chairman & CEO of CMGi; and James C. Wood, founder, president & CEO of Silknet Software. The winners will be honored tonight at the Mass eComm 10 awards ceremony, to be held at the Westin Copley Place Boston beginning at 8:15 p.m. Eastern Time. "Technology is one thing, but people are really driving the e-commerce revolution," said Tom Hopcroft, president of Mass eComm. "We select the Mass eComm 10 annually to spotlight the people behind this industry. It is our hope that by honoring them, others will be inspired, and the flood of ideas that has fueled this revolution will continue." The Mass eComm 10 represents multiple industries, including banking, start-up financing and customer support. Mass eComm believes that multiple industries have contributed to the success of e-commerce and are crucial to its continued growth. The members of the Mass eComm 10 were selected by an independent group of industry advisors, including representatives from Computerworld, Mass High Tech and Giga Information Group. About Mass eComm Mass eComm is a non-profit trade association founded to promote global electronic commerce and to serve as the hub of the emerging e-business industry in New England. Conceived in mid-1997, Mass eComm has grown to become the leading e-business association on the East Coast. Annually, Mass eComm highlights over 100 local e-commerce executives at a variety of educational and networking events. Mass eComm is the sponsor of eBuzz.org (http://www.ebuzz.org), New England's premier e-business resource site, and is the host of the Mass eComm 10, an annual awards ceremony honoring the region's most influential e-business leaders. For more information on Mass eComm, please visit ebuzz.org Editors Note: For more information about tonight's Mass eComm 10 awards ceremony, contact Ross Levanto at Schwartz Communications, 617-510-4340.