Los Angeles, California, June 10, 2002 – The Vice President Sales of Nstein Technologies Inc. “Nstein” (TSX Venture Exchange: EIN), Leslie Lees, is pleased to announce at the annual Special Libraries Association (SLA) conference that three of e-publishing’s top sales professionals are joining Nstein’s global Sales team.

Each of the new Sales Directors has already worked in e-publishing and arrives as an industry insider. Sarah Brezniak, former Business Development Manager for Semio Corporation, Stuart Recher, former Channel Marketing Director at knowledge management company Smartlogik, and Douglas Wear, formerly Enterprise Sales Manager for divine inc. (previously SageMaker), each join Nstein as Sales Directors, reporting to Leslie Lees.

Remarks Lees, “Their combined sales experience and understanding of our marketplace make them ideal choices to expand our e-publishing business. All three bring significant experience in the STM, government, and enterprise sectors, meeting and exceeding revenue targets for large solution sales and managing all phases of the sales cycle. This is an experienced group that will accelerate our penetration strategy into the e-publishing marketplace.”

Last month Nstein announced the appointments of Lees and three New Business Development Directors, whose vertical market experience mainly cover the academic and STM (Scientific, Technical and Medical) verticals.

“These new appointments complement our coverage across all key markets, and give us entire exposure in the e-publishing space,” continues Lees. “In e-publishing there is a clear and obvious need and Nstein provides a clear and obvious answer. Our strategy is to have people in sales roles who understand the issues and can work supportively with our customers—to build on those solutions and leverage our products into huge ROI gains for them.”

At Semio Corporation, Sarah Brezniak developed and managed strategic relationships with channel and technology partners to deliver enterprise portal, information search and retrieval, and content management solutions. She implemented the Semio Partner Network program, and was responsible for achieving significant growth in channel sales revenue. Prior to Semio, she was Senior Manager, Supplier Business Development at EqualFooting.com Inc., where she managed top performing suppliers in the industrial e-marketplace. Among her accomplishments she extended service and product contracts with strategic partners including Thomas Register, Yahoo! and PurchasePro. As a Chemical Engineer, Brezniak was a technical consultant to government and recognized expert in Best Management Practices for the pulp and paper industry. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.

Stuart Recher brings over eight years of experience in sales, delivering content, knowledge management and infrastructure solutions to large enterprises. Prior to Smartlogik, Stuart significantly expanded Midwest sales for on-line information delivery solutions at Dialog Corporation. He has held Sales Executive, Regional Director, and Director Enterprise Solutions titles, involving all aspects of the enterprise solution sales process, from strategic growth planning to prospecting, closing, and training. His sales record has shown a consistent and substantial gain of increasing sales volume and profit in classification software, portal management solutions, and other product segments. Recher’s speaking engagements have included an industry expert presentation at Frost and Sullivan’s technology markets Competitive Intelligence forum. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing and Management from Long Island University.

Douglas Wear brings twenty-five years of experience in account management, channel development, international marketing and business development in enterprise content management, pharmaceutical products, and advertising. As Enterprise Sales Manager and later Director Federal Programs at divine inc., Wear’s territory covered Canada and the Mid-Atlantic States. Among his accomplishments, in the e-publishing industry Wear developed enterprise content management system and service sales to major news aggregators incorporating real-time news feeds from global news agencies. He has established strategic alliances, and negotiated favourable customer agreements with government and non-governmental international agencies in over twenty-five countries, including the IMF/World Bank. Douglas Wear holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.


About Nstein Technologies

Nstein Technologies is a public company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. The company develops and markets innovative content management software solutions based on its patented Linguistic DNA™ technology—which combines the strengths of linguistic and statistical analysis with artificial intelligence. Nstein’s nserver™ software solution automates time-consuming and complex tasks such as content classification, XML tagging and summarization. The company’s products enable a significant leap in effectiveness and cost reduction for content management, e-publishing, and on-line companies. For further information on Nstein Technologies Inc., please visit www.nstein.com.

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