Roger Marino, Co-Founder of EMC Corp., and Alan G. Spoon, Managing General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners, Join TechTarget.com Board of Directors

Business Wire, March 12, 2001

Business/Technology Editors

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2001

TechTarget.com, the leading network of industry-specific IT Web sites, announced today that EMC co-founder Roger Marino and Alan G. Spoon, managing general partner, Polaris Venture Partners, have joined the Company's Board of Directors. In a separate release today, TechTarget.com announced that Marino and Polaris Venture Partners had become investors in the Company, as part of $30 million in Series A financing.

As directors of TechTarget.com, Marino and Spoon will provide strategic guidance and leadership to the Company, drawing on their experience with two of the most successful corporations in the country. In 1979, Marino co-founded EMC Corp., the world leader in information storage systems. In 1992, he retired from EMC as president, having brought the Company public and built it into the world's largest provider of storage solutions. Spoon joined Polaris Venture Partners in March 2000. Before that, he served as president of the Washington Post Company, a diversified media organization that includes the Washington Post newspaper, Newsweek magazine, Cable One cable television systems, and Kaplan test, education, and career preparation services. In his 18-year tenure with the Post Company, Spoon also held several high-level positions, including chief operating officer, chief financial officer, and president of Newsweek magazine.

"The addition of Roger Marino and Alan Spoon to the TechTarget.com Board of Directors is a ringing endorsement for the Company," said Greg Strakosch, CEO of TechTarget.com. "Their enormous experience in fostering the growth of successful organizations will be a tremendous asset to TechTarget.com as we pursue our goal of profitability in 2001."

Marino and Spoon join fellow TechTarget.com board members Bruce Levenson, CEO of United Communications Group, and Greg Strakosch, CEO of TechTarget.com.

About TechTarget.com

TechTarget.com (www.techtarget.com) is the leading network of industry-specific Web sites for enterprise IT professionals, serving a total of more than one million registered members. Each of TechTarget.com's 23 specialized Web sites aggregates the best links from across the Web to offer enterprise IT professionals the most comprehensive source of industry-specific news, information, and resources anywhere. The TechTarget.com network includes leading IT-specific sites: SearchASP.com, SearchNetworking.com, SearchStorage.com, SearchWin2000.com, and Whatis.com, the IT encyclopedia. TechTarget.com's sponsorship programs provide more than 400 corporate sponsors with proven vehicles for lead generation, branding, and merchandising. TechTarget.com counts among its sponsors some of the most prestigious technology organizations in the world, including IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Intel Corp., EMC Corp., and Veritas Software.

Based in Needham, Massachusetts, TechTarget.com was founded in 1999 as a spin-off of United Communications Group (UCG), one of the largest business-to-business information providers in the U.S. More information about TechTarget.com is available at http://www.techtarget.com.