Walker Financial Has Announced That Mr. James Ouimet Has Joined Its Advisory Board

Business Wire, Jan 13, 2005

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- Walker Financial Corporation (OTCBB:WLKF), a marketer of funeral advisory, funding and prearrangement services to the affinity and voluntary benefit marketplace announced that James Ouimet has joined Walker Financial's Advisory Board. Mr. Ouimet has approximately 30 years of experience in the insurance industry of which 20 years has been devoted to worksite marketing.

Jim Ouimet is Chairman and CEO of The James Group, LLC, an insurance sales and marketing consulting organization he founded in 1995. He began his insurance career in 1976 as an insurance sales representative and has spent over twenty years in worksite marketing. Jim is a part owner and director of the National Association of Professional Enrollment Specialists formerly known as N.A.P.E.S./eSI (a/k/a The Benefit Marketing Association). He served as the Association's full-time president during its first three years, helping it to become the insurance industry's largest worksite marketing focused association. He is also President Emeritus of the Mass Marketing Directors Association. Jim has been published in a number of magazines and has authored a book on the discipline of selling: The True Basics of Successful Selling. Jim is a graduate of Dominican College and received his MBA from Notre Dame. In 2000, he was inducted into the International Worksite Marketing Hall of Fame.

Mitchell Segal, President and CEO of Walker Financial stated "Jim Ouimet is a leader in the field of employee benefits and worksite marketing. His addition adds another expert to Walker's Advisory Board to help direct and enable the Company to become a leading force in the voluntary benefit market."

About Walker Financial Corporation

Walker Financial Corporation, through its subsidiary, National Preplanning, Inc., is engaged in the sale of pre-arrangements as a voluntary benefit to captive audiences such as corporations, unions and affinity groups and represents independent funeral homes in the marketing of pre-arrangements to individuals. Through its licensed subsidiary, NPI Agency, Inc., Walker earns insurance commissions on prearrangements funded through insurance. Through its subsidiary, American DataSource ("ADS"), the Company is engaged in the business of providing a complete line of administrative services for pre-need funeral and cemetery trust accounts.

Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor provisions of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, continued acceptance of the Company's products and services in the marketplace, regulatory and competitive factors, new products and technological changes, the Company's dependence upon third-party suppliers, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's Form 10-K and other regularly filed reports.