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Marc Strauch Named Chief Marketing Officer of NS8 Corporation

Posted on: Thursday, 4 March 2004, 06:00 CST

NS8 Corporation (OTCBB:NSEO) (http://www.ns8corp.net), a company that specializes in digital media and non-resident software technology development, today announced that Marc Strauch, one of the tech industry's most respected marketers, has joined NS8 Corporation as Chief Marketing Officer. NS8 Corporation Chairman, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Architect Anthony Alda made the announcement. ¶ A marketing professional with nearly 15 years of experience in the technology arena, Mr. Strauch has worked with Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Consulting Services and Microsoft Certified and Certified Gold Partners including Intel, Compaq, Gartner, Giga Information Group, Avanade, Navigant Consulting, NerveWire/Wipro and Immedient. He is widely recognized as an expert at defining the business value of information technologies. During his service with Microsoft, Strauch has been a key communications provider for the launch of various Microsoft product lines including Windows server, Windows client and Microsoft Office to business and technical decision makers. ¶"We are extremely privileged to be attracting world-class individuals such as Tom Routt, our new President and Co-Chief Architect, and now Marc," said Mr. Alda. "Marc has deployed successful marketing and communication campaigns for many Fortune 500 technology companies. We have a very aggressive roll out plan that we intend to announce at the end of our first quarter. Marc's addition to the NS8Corp family adds greater strength and cohesion to that plan."¶"Marc, in joining NS8 Corporation as our Chief Marketing Officer, is a key and integral addition to the NS8Corp executive team," said Tom Routt, President of NS8 Corporation. "He is unique and accomplished in his abilities to translate complex, evolving technologies into clarified, value-based decision roadmaps for business and technical decision makers, and in his world-class marketing team leadership skills within key solution-provider and customer corporate contexts."¶"NS8 Corporation is at the cutting edge of developing anti-piracy and secure distribution technologies most needed for today's explosion of digital content," said Mr. Strauch. "I am excited to join this world-class team as we begin to demonstrate and market proprietary digital broadcasting technologies that are firmly positioned to fulfill critical market needs to content owners and distributors of movies, television, music and other on-demand IP. Anthony and the NS8Corp team have brilliantly created unique software architecture, a powerful go-to-market strategy and a dynamic corporate culture that has compelled me to join their team. It is a privilege and an honor to help build a best-in-class company and work alongside such industry luminaries as Anthony and Tom."¶ For the past four years, Mr. Strauch has been a Preferred Vendor to Microsoft Corporation as part of the Microsoft Vendor Program, working with the Microsoft Business Value, Windows server, Windows client, Office, .NET and Solution Accelerator teams to convey the business value of Microsoft technologies to business and technical decision makers and IT professionals. Previously, Mr. Strauch spent four years working in different Microsoft product groups, including MSDN and Enterprise Program Management, creating a range of marketing communication collateral. ¶ Mr. Strauch has helped develop business value-related marketing materials and customer evidence for the launches of Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Small Business Server 2003, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003 and Office Solution Accelerators. ¶ Strauch has also produced marketing collateral for other technology companies including Dell, Intel and Quantum, in addition to providing strategic market planning to numerous start-up, mid-market technology, business-to-business and business-to-consumer companies. ¶ Strauch has spent an additional seven years in consumer product marketing, working with major advertising agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Leo Burnett, Ogilvy & Mather, McCann Erickson and others on accounts such as Levi Strauss, Walt Disney, Chevron, Quaker Oats, Oshkosh, Anderson Windows and other Fortune 500 companies. ¶ He began his career as a professional urban planner working in the private, public and third party sectors in New York City. He holds a B.S. in Environmental Science and Public Policy and a B.A. in Economic Geography from the State University of New York, and a Masters of Urban Planning degree from the City University of New York, as well as graduate-level coursework in marketing, film production and screenwriting. ¶ He will be based out of NS8Corp's Seattle, Washington office.

¶ About NS8 Corporation

¶ NS8 Corporation (NS8Corp) (http://www.ns8corp.net) is a Delaware corporation specializing in research, development and acquisition of digital media and non-resident software technologies. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, NS8Corp has offices in Seattle with primary research and development in British Columbia, Canada. NS8Corp's mission is to develop technologies that provide the simplicity, quality and performance of local computing to online server-based systems without the ongoing expense and complexity of managing server systems, software licenses or applications development, or the need to consider broadband, resident memory or hardware limitations to deliver those applications. Its current subsidiaries, CanOnline Global Media, Inc. (CGMI) (http://www.canonline.net) and CanOnline Media Corporation (CMC), develop patent pending non-resident software systems, secure media distribution systems and digital content components for IP-based delivery applications. NS8Corp also has two business units, Reelindie Global Networks (http://www.reelindie.net) and Kaozz Entertainment Network (http://www.kaozzentertainment.net) that participate in the film and television production services, and digital music and video distribution arenas.

¶ Safe Harbor Statement

¶ Certain statements made herein that are not historical are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on the Company's beliefs and the assumptions it made using information currently available to it. Because these statements reflect the Company's current views concerning future events, these statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. The actual results could differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. In any event, undue reliance should not be placed on any forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this press release. ¶ Trademarks are the property of their owners.

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