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Multi Solutions, Inc. Announces that Howard M. Blankman Has Agreed to Join FreeTrek.Com's Board of Directors MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J., Mar 14, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- March 14, 2000 - Multi Solutions, Inc. (OTC BB: MULT) today announced that Howard M. Blankman has agreed to join the board of directors of Multi Solutions' subsidiary FreeTrek.Com, Inc. Charles Lombardo, president of FreeTrek, commented, "We are putting together a management team and a Board of Directors which will be of significant benefit to the companies ability to access the key corporate targets that we are after. Howard Blankman has pursued a multifaceted distinguished career encompassing business, government, and the arts and will be an exceptional addition to our Board of Directors. He will be able to open many doors for FreeTrek and his contribution will be of extraordinary benefit to the company. His resume speaks for itself": In business, Mr. Blankman is chairman and chief executive officer of The Blankman Group, LLC (TBG), a leading Long Island-based public relations and marketing communications agency that is active both regionally and nationally. Mr. Blankman has provided public relations services for present and past clients encompassing the metropolitan New York/Long Island area as well as throughout the U.S., including, but not limited to: EAB; Cablevision Systems Corporation; A & P; National Electronics Warranty Corp. (NEW); Ward Melville Heritage Organization; Exxon; Suffolk County Water Authority, The Incorporated Village of Freeport; New York & Atlantic Railroad Company; Medical Doctors of New York (MDNY), Omnipoint; MasterCard International; King Kullen, U.S. Trust Company of New York; Long Island Power Authority; Foundation for Long Island State Parks; Breslin Realty Development Corporation; The Southland Corporation; Canon; Town of Brookhaven Economic Development Zone; Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Huntington Hilton; Wheelabrator Clean Water Systems Inc.; Dow Chemical U.S.A.; Cox Cable Communications, Inc. ; Roosevelt Field Merchants Association; and the Diocese of Rockville Centre. In government, Mr. Blankman serves as chairman of the Nassau County Planning Commission and as a member, appointed by New York State's Governor George Pataki, of the Long Island Regional Economic Development Council until 2002. He served from 1986 to 1993 as a member of the Nassau County Board of Assessors. Previously, he was a member of the Nassau County Planning Commission for eight years, of which five and a half were spent as the Commission's vice chairman. An Accredited Member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), in 1993, Mr. Blankman was elected to PRSA's prestigious College of Fellows. At the time, fewer than 300 public relations professionals in the United States had been elected to the College. Mr. Blankman is the only Long Islander who has earned this honor. He organized and was the first president of the Society's Long Island Chapter and later served as chairman of PRSA's Tri-State District. He is a three-time recipient of the PRSA President's Citation, "in recognition of exceptional service in the development and leadership of the Society." In June, 1997, Mr. Blankman was presented with the Jack Rettaliata Memorial Award for "lifetime achievement in public relations" by the Public Relations Professionals of Long Island (PRPLI). The award's namesake, the late Jack Rettaliata, was the Grumman Corporation's legendary chief public relations officer at the time of the world-renowned aircraft manufacturer's greatest accomplishments. A lifelong arts enthusiast, Howard Blankman is presently a vice president and member of the executive committee of the Long Island Philharmonic - the only professional, regional symphony orchestra on Long Island. He has served as president of the Great Neck Symphony Society, as vice chairman of the Nassau Symphony Orchestra, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Manhasset Bay Opera, and the Eglevsky Ballet Company. He is a member of The Authors League of America, the Dramatists Guild, the American Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers (ASCAP), and the Society of Professional Journalists. In addition, Mr. Blankman spent five years on the staff of Johnny Carson's ABC-TV show. Involved in a plethora of activities for worthwhile causes, in 1994, Mr. Blankman was honored by the National Kidney Foundation of New York/New Jersey as its "Man of the Year." In April, 1995, Long Island Business News, the region's preeminent business publication, presented its Long Island Distinguished Leadership Award to Mr. Blankman and currently lists him as one of the Long Island's "Top 100 Influentials." On May 5, 1995, he received The Golden Rule Award from Little Village, a school for developmentally disabled children. The award was presented at the 7th Annual Golden Rule Award Luncheon, a fund-raising event he founded. In addition, Mr. Blankman is a member of the board of the Long Island Chapter of Anti-Defamation league (ADL) and the Executive Committee of the Corporate Board of Advisors of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's DNA Learning Center. The Laboratory's president is the Nobel Laureate Dr. James Watson. Mr. Blankman, who has been associated with the Boy Scouts of America for more than 50 years, served for more than fifteen years as Vice President for Communications and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Nassau County Council of the Boy Scouts of America. In April 1991, the National Eagle Scout Association (MESA) awarded him the rank of Distinguished Eagle Scout; at that time, an honor shared by fewer than 800 Americans. The Nassau County Council presented him its Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award in 1992. Charles Lombardo, president of FreeTrek, commented, "Our proprietary FreeTrek software offers businesses the opportunity to sponsor their own Virtual Private Community (VPC). This VPC includes free Internet service, a community messaging system, a mechanism to view extremely targeted advertising, and a delivery mechanism for sponsors to provide significant additional value to VPC members. In this way businesses can strengthen their brand identity and customer loyalty by providing consumers with a value-added product associated with the Company's name. Founded in 1982, Multi Solutions, Inc. is a market leader, through its subsidiary Multi Soft, Inc. (OTC BB: MSOF) in the design, development, and marketing of client-server application development software and communications software. Multi Solutions' recently created subsidiary FreeTrek.Com(TM) is an affinity group service company that is offered to businesses (Sponsors) that want to create an Internet community of their current and future customers. We refer to this as a Virtual Private Community (VPC). The FreeTrek.Com program, is a complete turnkey service for a Sponsor, which creates and maintains the Sponsor's VPC on the Internet. It is the ultimate in Affinity Group "Opt-in Permission Marketing", and it significantly increases customer retention, acquisition, and communications, while supporting the sponsor's branding and customer cross-fertilization. Statements contained in this press release, which are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are necessary estimates regarding the best judgment of the party making such statements based upon current information and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release or in other public statements of the parties should be considered in light of those factors. There can be no assurances that such factors or other factors will affect the accuracy of such forward-looking statements. There can also be no assurances that ATMcenter.com will be able to deliver to FreeTrek the fully paid Internet connections as stated herein and hence any revenue projections are purely speculative. | ||||||||||||||
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