Unibex Appoints Jason Howe, VP Global Sales to Expands Sales Organization and Open Regional Sales Offices

Unibex opens West coast regional office as first step in global expansion to serve collaborative commerce customers

Washington DC -- May 24, 2001 -- Unibex, Inc., a provider of collaborative e-commerce infrastructure software to manufacturers, announced today it that it has appointed Jason Howe as Vice President Global Sales. Unibex also announced that it has opened a regional sales office in San Diego. The move is the first phase of a plan to create a series of sales offices to serve the needs of its collaborative commerce customers.

Howe is responsible for developing the Unibex global sales strategy, developing the direct sales team and managing the sales effort. He previously was Vice President European Sales for Edgix Corporation and has over 10 years of experience selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 1000 companies.

Howe has moved quickly to expand the sales for by hiring a team of professional sales executives. Ive brought on an experienced team of sales directors who are responsible for building business within their territory," Howe states. He adds, Over the next 6 months, we will be adding a significant number of professionals who have the experience solving the supply chain management issues our customers face. We will also ramp up our regional presence across North America and internationally. The demand for our collaborative commerce products and services is growing and our moves here position us to be able to meet that demand."

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About Unibex, Inc.

Unibex is a collaborative commerce provider. Unibex develops, deploys and maintains infrastructure software that enables companies to source, collaborate, transact and sell complex products and services online across their extended enterprise. Unibex has developed the Collaborative Commerce Platform, which provides a strong sell-side functionality for manufacturers, distributors and resellers as well as a strong buy-side functionality for companies with extended procurement chains. Our solutions are affordable and can be extended to satisfy the business requirements for companies of any size.