Former Lotus Sales Executive Joins Excedent Management Team

Trevor Winters Brings Seasoned Experience With Messaging Roots

Vienna, VA (May 20, 2003) - Excedent Technologies, a global leader in business email outsourcing, anti-virus and Spam filtering solutions today announced that Trevor Winters has joined the executive management team as Senior Director of Business Development. Winters will work with management to promote and evolve the company's Channel Partner program and indirect business strategy. He will be responsible for aligning the company with strategic partners and growing the Excedent customer base by leveraging third party referral and reseller relationships. Trevor will be based out of the Excedent office in Roanoke, Virginia.

"I am very excited to work with Trevor," explained Pat Matthews, CEO of Excedent. "He brings a wealth of experience to the company, including several years of success at Lotus, maker of Lotus Domino, the IBM flagship messaging server. He understands the importance of building and maintaining strategic relationships. The Excedent business strategy is built on leverage and Trevor has strong experience in both Channel and Affiliate sales management."

"The email market is an exciting place to be," commented Winters. "It's a fast paced industry and the Excedent management team has expertly positioned the company for tremendous growth. It is a wonderful change of pace to find a technology company that is self-funded, yet effectively competing for market share. I am eager to build off of the existing relationships that the current management team has established and to seek out new opportunities."

Winters brings over ten years of sales and marketing experience in high technology companies to Excedent. Since the year 2000, he has worked for online medical content pioneer drkoop.com as the sole Affiliate Relations Manager for the partnership with America Online as well as the Director of Promotions & Loyalty for United Devices, a distributed computing company that grew to over 500,000 members and 1,000,000 computers during his tenure. His prior work experience included six years of Channel Sales, Business Partners Sales, and Sales Operations positions of increasing responsibilities at the Lotus Development Corporation, which became a subsidiary of IBM. His undergraduate degree was earned at Duke University and he holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

About Excedent
Excedent Technologies is a global leader in outsourced business email hosting solutions. The company provides small businesses and service providers with secure, reliable, Spam-free, Virus-free email. Excedent manages and maintains this critical communication infrastructure, freeing up valuable personnel resources and eliminating the need for customers to purchase email related software, hardware or additional bandwidth. The company is privately held and serves more than 1,000 customers worldwide. For more information, please visit www.excedent.com or call 866.EXCEDENT (392.3336).