[pptp-server] Unwired Express Strategic Partnerships

Tina tina at qvpartners.com
Wed Aug 22 14:21:07 CDT 2001


Wednesday August 15, 2001


QUANTUM UNVEILS INVESTMENT IN UNWIRED EXPRESS.
UNWIRED EXPRESS SEEKS ADDITIONAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCES.


New York, NY., August 15, 2001 UNWIRED EXPRESS ("Unwired Express" or the
"Company", <.http://www.unwiredexpress.com/>) nears FINAL Series B
closing with a commitment from Quantum Venture Partners. 

Investors (Series A - 7.8M)
Milind Mittal
Virginia Turezyn, Infinity Capital   <www.infinitycapital.com>
Mark Frommer, Lehman Brothers   <www.lehman.com>
Jay Forman, Dellet Corp.   <www.dellet.com>
Yair Safrai, Concord Ventures   <www.concordventures.com>


Unwired Express provides the first ever context-based enterprise
mobility platform that intelligently integrates and extends existing
business-critical applications. The Unwired Express context-based mobile
application platform solves the dilemma that has beset companies for too
long: how to transform corporate data into relevant, actionable and
timely information for mobile employees. 

Rounding out the company's capabilities, Unwired Express is partnered
with Palm, Xalerts, Ventera, SoftelComm, Sun Microsystems, AvantGo, BEA
Systems, Handspring, Microsoft, Enterprise Integration, NovaSync, Maxim
Group, and Impact Innovations Group.


DIRECTORS, ADVISORS & INVESTORS
Virginia Turezyn, Managing Director, Infinity Capital
Yair Safrai, General Partner, Concord Ventures
Richard Cardenas, Hewlett Packard Company
Ashok Mehta, Vice President, Hughes Network Systems
Jigish Avalani, Senior Director, .Net marketing, Microsoft

Ranjay Gulati, Professor of Technology and E-commerce at Kellogg
Graduate School of Management

Charles Gaylord, Formerly EVP at Intuit, Chairman of Chipsoft. Board
member, eAssist Global Solutions and Stellcom

Gary Hoffman, Former CEO, Skipstone

Michael Grandinetti, Chief Marketing Officer, Parametric software

Gideon Marks, VP of Corporate Finance, Garage.com


MANAGEMENT TEAM

YUVAL BOGER, President, CEO and Founder: He has served as general
manager for the voice quality business unit of RADCOM (NASDAQ: RDCM).
Boger also managed the creation of groundbreaking software for new
communications test products and won Data Communications magazine's 1996
Hot Product of the Year award. Boger also co-founded Talia Technology, a
medical diagnostic company that develops, manufactures and sells unique
ophthalmic products worldwide. Boger received a master's of physics at
Tel-Aviv University and recently completed an Executive MBA at the J.L.
Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. 


MICHAEL S. RIEMER, Chief Strategy Officer: served as vice president of
management at Nextel Communications where he led product management and
development activities in the areas of voice, wireless Internet,
messaging, Internet/Web and handset development. Prior to Nextel, Riemer
was vice president of marketing and business development for Paragraph
International. He also co-founded and served as vice president of
marketing for Certus International. Riemer received his bachelor's
degree from the University of Rochester in 1986. 


THOMAS E. YOUNG, Vice President of Sales: served as CEO of Onesoft.
Young spent 6 years as vice president of Manugistics' global e-commerce
division, e-Chain Technologies. Young also spent five years at Andersen
Consulting, now Accenture. He received a bachelor's of science in
mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1988 and
completed course work in high technology marketing at Stanford
University in 1997.


About QUANTUM VENTURE PARTNERS
As a leading venture capital firm, Quantum Ventures has the bandwidth,
industry expertise and access to capital to launch the next generation
of category leaders.  The firm has invested nationwide in various
companies across the communications, software and Internet/e-Business
industries.  From its offices in New York, NY the firm has access to
over $100 million in available and committed capital.  Quantum Ventures
is a 'value-add' investor to early/late-stage companies, providing
entrepreneurs with access to more than just financial backing through
combined access to their network of industry executives, the right
resources and financial capital.

If you would like to learn more about Quantum Venture Partners, please
see www.qvpartners.com. 

PLEASE GIVE US YOUR THOUGHTS ON ANY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
OR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH UNWIRED EXPRESS.


Best regards,
Raj 

Raj Pamnani
Quantum Venture Partners
535 Fifth Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, New York 10017
Tel: 1- (212) 986-9773
Fax. 1- (212) 661-2145
http://www.qvpartners.com

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