Echopass Announces Appointment of Bruce Pollock to Board of Directors; Experienced Financial Executive Joins Board

Business Wire, March 22, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO -- Echopass, the leading service provider of on demand contact center solutions, today announced that Bruce Pollock, President, Financial Executive Solutions(TM), has been elected to the Echopass Board of Directors. Pollock joins the current Board of Directors including Vincent Deschamps, Echopass CEO/Chairman; Ronald Kase, General Partner, NEA; John Balen, General Partner, Canaan Partners; Carl Nichols, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Outlook Ventures and Chris Hadsell, General Partner, Cardinal Venture Capital.

Pollock has extensive experience as a senior financial executive having served as Chief Financial Officer for notable high technology companies, including Avanex Corporation (AVNX), WaveSplitter Technologies, Walker Interactive Systems Inc. (WALK), Reel.com (Hollywood Video) and VMX, Inc. (originally VMXI, now part of Avaya).

Pollock's consulting firm, Financial Executive Solutions, provides senior financial executive leadership and hands on assistance to private, venture-funded and small cap public high technology companies and their executive teams.

"I am delighted to join the Echopass Board at a time when the on demand business model is gaining so much momentum in the marketplace," said Pollock. "I believe that my extensive business and financial experience will enable me to help Echopass to achieve even greater success."

Bruce earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Washington. He also has an MBA degree from the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley), a JD degree from Boalt Law School (UC Berkeley) and is a member of the California Bar.

About Echopass

Echopass Corporation is the leading service provider of on demand contact center solutions for midsize businesses, departments and branches of large enterprises and outsourcers worldwide. With a wide range of flexible inbound and outbound customer contact solutions, Echopass delivers rich functionality that is easy to deploy and use. Echopass takes the pain and complexity out of implementing telephone and webbased customer contact solutions by offering a full suite of service packages on demand and delivered over the data network. With Echopass, customers enjoy the benefits of highly effective sales, marketing and customer service communications in less time and at a lower cost than traditional, premise-based systems. Founded in 2000, Echopass is privately held, backed by top-tier venture capital firms and headquartered in San Francisco with a world-class operations center in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information, go to www.echopass.com or call 1-888-622-5345.