Proxity Names Grace President and Chairman of the Board!

William C. Robinson, Founder, CEO and Director of Business Development and Capital Expansion has more than 20 years experience in the public equity markets, including management positions at Paine Webber and Prudential Securities, Mr. Robinson has functioned both as a successful start-up entrepreneur and an officer and director of eight public companies. Mr. Robinson brings seasoned operational, fund-raising and merger and acquisition skills to the Proxity team, and has been responsible for initiating and negotiating as a principal more than $100 million worth of merger and acquisition transactions and has developed, bought, and sold more than 20 companies from the raw start-up stage to taking eight to full public company status.

Joseph A. Grace, Jr., President/COB, is a 1980 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former nuclear submarine officer with a strong engineering and management background. Along with his graduate work in nuclear physics, he received his MBA from the University of New Orleans. Mr. Grace left the Navy in 1988 to join a Fortune 500 company as a sales engineer. During his tenure there he further developed his vast expertise in telecom, fiber optics, material science, power generation and electronics, rising to become one of three national sales managers for a wire and cable division.

In 1994 Mr. Grace became the founding President of the LTC, a technical trade association committed to transforming the Louisiana Technology Industry. During his tenure as President, the LTC emerged as a technology leader for Louisiana and the Southern States. He distinguished himself as an entrepreneur and business leader while President of the LTC, He has participated in the creation of dozens of start-up companies and has been involved in the raising of over $500 MM in venture capital, the placement of multiple management teams and is a noted expert in business development and marketing. . His recognized expertise in "Tech-nomic Development", a term meaning synergistic innovative technical and economical expertise sometimes need in early stage or incubation of leading edge technologies and technology marketing has made the organization a model for innovation and excellence.

Mr. Grace is noted for his keen ability to work with both start-up and established companies, raise venture capital, prepare business plans, push legislative agendas, make introductions, and create sales and marketing strategies. His broad range of expertise will be a strong benefit to this diverse company. He remains active in the United States Naval Reserve and was recently selected for promotion to the rank of Captain. He is a recognized leader of the business community of Louisiana and is active on many Boards and Committees.

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Barry C. Nelsen, Vice President Government Sales, has been selling information products and services since 1970. As the President of Sales Resources Consultants, Inc. Mr. Nelsen has been one of the leaders in designing and selling information products used in the U.S. Military. In the late 1980’s Mr. Nelsen sold scanning, storage and printing technologies to the DoD that replaced the use of off-set presses in delivering 6 million pages of DoD specifications each month as well as replacing the microfilm technologies (sometimes requiring a base cost of $300,000,000) required in reproducing drawings for DoD vendors. Mr. Nelsen also was the agent for Beyond.com, selling the first enterprise wide EC downloaded software to the DoD. This sale of over $50,000,000 was for desktop software used by the Defense Logistics Agency and all DoD purchasing agents.

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Gordon W. DeBoer , Managing Director of Linksimple, He also is Chairman and CEO of a privately held mortgage banking firm specializing in financing home loans, Neighborhood Acceptance Corp. and of Hollywood Film & Video, Inc., a privately held motion picture laboratory serving the major film studios and specializing in developing film for computer digitized special effects.

His previous experiences include Chairman/CEO of an investment banking firm with emphasis in financing investor notes, placing equity and debt for leverage transactions, leveraged buyouts, equipment leasing and supporting commercial projects. He was also the Marketing Manager for IBM in Los Angeles. Mr. DeBoer has served his country aboard the USS Ranger as a Navy pilot in Vietnam receiving numerous commendations. Mr. DeBoer continued to fly the A7 as part of the Naval Reserves until his retirement as a Navy Commander and still flies his own plane today.

Mr. DeBoer has a BA in Mathematics from the University of Northern Iowa, an MBA from Anderson School of Business (UCLA) and a Juris Doctorate from Chapman University. He has passed the California Bar. Additionally, he has both a California and a Utah Real Estate and Insurance Brokers license, and has 12 years as a Series 7 representative and as a Series 24 Broker managing and operating his own securities firm SST Investors Services, Inc. until he sold it in 1998.

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ON ALERT L.P. MANAGEMENT TEAM

Chairman & President, Frank Patterson, Jr.:
Frank Patterson, Jr. graduated from N.W.O.S.U. with a B.S. degree in natural science. Post graduate school at Oklahoma State University. Taught physics, chemistry, biology, and human anatomy for eight years. Five years of experience in industrial operations, fourteen years of experience in operations and maintenance of utility planet. Has over ten years experience in electronics, two years study in power plant generation, and two years in powerline communications. Owns a patent on powerline technology.

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CEO& Director of New Business Development, James W. Elrod:
Mr. Elrod completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Oklahoma with a minor in public relations and going on to complete His business degree at Oklahoma Wesleyan College. At the University of Oklahoma he attained All-American and all conference status. OU won back to back national championships in 1974 & 1975 during this time. He went on to be drafted to the Kansa City Chiefs as a Professional Ball player for the next 4 years. He has been a founder in several startup ventures over the past 25 years including, oil and gas, housing and land development, environmental technologies, healthcare services as well as the present powerline technology business. Through his celebrity and leadership Mr. Elrod has developed a long list of influential contacts including several congressmen, senators and other corporate contacts that are interested in the success of the company.

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Vice President, CIO & Director of Marketing and Sales, Bryan Noland:
Bryan Noland, Chief Information Officer, joined Synchros Technologies with over ten years of Executive Management experience with small to medium sized business and high tech startups. Mr. Noland has founded, invested and held various upper management positions with specialized industry segments including: global logistics, health & fitness manufacturing, web development, ecommerce consulting, utility liaison, and franchising. With Mr. Noland entrepreneurial sprit and broad educational background, he is able to provide technology vision and leadership for developing and implementing IT initiatives that create and maintain leadership for the enterprise in a constantly changing and intensely competitive marketplace.

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Vice President of Product Development, & General Council, Fred H. Holmes:
Registered Patent Attorney practicing with the intellectual property group of Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippins, P.C. Accumulated over 15 years of engineering/engineering management experience prior to attending law school including: Manager of Product Development for StairMaster Exercise Systems; Sole designer of the electrical/electronic systems, including software, for the StairMaster 6000/ergometer, StairMaster 4000 PT, StairMaster Gravitron, StairMaster Gauntlet, and Cellcast RBS-400. The total sales of these StairMaster products have generated roughly $650 million in sales since inception. Worked as Senior Electronic Design Engineer for FlightSafety International, Simulator Systems Division responsible for the development of microprocessor based aircraft interfaces systems, video graphics systems, environmental sound effects, and servo system. Was the Maintainability Engineer for Texas Instruments responsible for testability analysis of the HARM Missile (AGM-88A) and the design of various systems of peculiar ground support equipment (intermediate level customer test equipment) for HARM. Additional professional experience includes: Director of Engineering/In-house Counsel, Bed-Check Corporation; Contractor/consultant for computerized lighting systems for the movie/television industry including a 100 kW tungsten dimmer, 40 kW HMI dimmer, 10kW xenon power supply, and programmable flash controllers for still photography; Contractor/consultant for various oil field/pipeline electronic systems, radio broadcast equipment, and video games. J.D., December 1995, University of Tulsa, graduated with honors, Order of the Curule Chair, BSEE, May 1979, University of Oklahoma.

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Vice President, Bob Boyd:
Mr. Boyd has over twenty years experience in the fields of capital formation, international finance, and investment banking. Most recently, Bob has been founder and president of Boston Street Advisors, consulting with growing companies in business development and financing matters. Prior to forming his own firm, Mr. Boyd held positions as senior financial analyst for a New York Stock Exchange energy concern, consultant to a major regional bank, Chief Financial Officer - Treasurer for a private manufacturing company, and Manager of Treasury for a NASDAQ manufacturing company that had both domestic and international operations. Mr. Boyd's international experience includes consultation in Europe, Asia, Canada, and South America.

His experience has included successfully planning and negotiating the initial $15 million financing package of a start-up manufacturing company, being a key member of a group that planned and restructured over $500 million of corporate debt for a major multi-national diversified energy concern, and serving as exclusive financial advisor for the financing and sale of a local internet service provider, valued at $5.25 million. He has also played key roles in establishing a sales and distribution office in Germany for a manufacturing company, advising major energy and service companies in the area of performance measurement, and having management responsibilities for two multi-million dollar integrated computer systems conversions.

Mr. Boyd is an adjunct professor of finance at The University of Tulsa and conducts training seminars throughout the world. He holds an MBA from the University of Tulsa and graduated from the Executive Development Program of the Wharton School.

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