VETERAN EXECUTIVE RECRUITER PAUL VILLELLA LAUNCHES HIRESTRATEGY.COM NEW FIRM OFFERS E-RECRUITMENT SERVICES FOR THE NEW ECONOMY

RESTON, VA, April 5, 2000

Paul Villella, one's of the nation's top staffing executives, has launched HireStrategy.com, an innovative business portal that provides Web-enabled, e-recruitment services for New Economy start-ups and developing companies that are adding e-commerce dimensions to their existing business. Mr. Villella's experience includes successful staffing programs for America Online, Bell Atlantic and Nextel. "HireStrategy.com offers our clients unmatched access to a targeted, talented community of candidates," according to Mr. Villella. "We believe that our business model -- the convergence of Web enablement and relationships developed with talented search consultants -- represents the future of staffing.

"We are going to be integrally involved in building hundreds of successful businesses in the New Economy," Mr. Villella continues. "Our unique business-to-business (B2B) exchange connects growing companies and professionals to a community of services that can quickly establish and successfully grow their businesses by providing access to funding sources, technology solutions, incubator services and other essential business partners." Mr. Villella serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of HireStrategy.com. He combines a proven track record of launching and building new companies with a thorough understanding of Internet business models and technologies, Mr. Villella is building HireStrategy.com into the leading Internet-based hiring community for the New Economy. Before co-founding HireStrategy.com in January 2000, Mr. Villella was with a regional venture capital firm that provided funding, merger and acquisition strategies, and interim executive leadership roles for Internet start-ups. Mr. Villella has spent most of his career in staffing, and was the Managing Director for the East region for Kforce.com (formerly Source Services), a national staffing and placement agency. Prior to his work with Kforce.com, Mr. Villella was in technology and management consulting for DuPont and Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Mr. Villella's success in migrating Source Services' business model into the emerging Internet economy earned him recognition in publications ranging from Computerworld, PC Week and Information Week to The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. The Washington Business Journal ranked Source Services as the top executive recruiting firm in the Washington area for three consecutive years in the late-1990s.

Several top executives from Mr. Villella's Source Services team, including Hector Velez, Chris Owen and John Qudeen, have joined him at HireStrategy.com. In addition to their expertise in staffing, members of HireStrategy.com's management team are experts in e-commerce, leadership, technology, collaborative business development and innovation. HireStrategy.com's strategic business partners include Microsoft, Allbusiness.com, PlanetIT.com, Wetfeet, Fast Company, Red Herring and Business 2.0. HireStrategy.com's client list includes some of the nation's leading Internet, Broadband and Media companies. Already working with dozens of emerging busineses, HireStrategy.com supplies talented professionals to newly-funded firms such as Luminant Worldwide and Etensity, and to more established growth companies like Winstar and OneMain.com. HireStrategy.com also works with brand new companies like The Avatar Project, Apptus, fyiEasy and IvyVentures.com. Companies seeking staffing services and experienced professionals seeking new career opportunities in the New Economy can contact Mr. Villella at (703) 251-4410 or paul@hirestrategy.com.