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Management additions at autoweb.com

15 March 1999

Autoweb Appoints Two Industry Leaders to New Management Positions

    SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 15 -- Autoweb.com, the consumer
automotive Internet service, today announced the appointments of two industry
veterans to senior management positions. Catherine Y. Gordon has been
appointed Vice President of Product Management, a newly created position.
Gordon Kass has been named Chief Technology Officer. Frank Zamani, former
Chief Technology Officer, will continue in his role of Chairman of the Board.
    "We are always striving to better address the needs of the consumer by
constantly improving the content and quality of the site," says Dean DeBiase,
CEO of Autoweb.com. "Cathy's and Gordon's talent and expertise in producing,
managing and executing high traffic, customer-focused products and services
will be an asset to the growth of the company. Both Cathy and Gordon have
strong management skills and years of experience that solidify our executive
team."
    Catherine Gordon brings to Autoweb.com over twenty years of experience in
the consumer technology industry. Most recently, Gordon served as Chief
Operating Officer and Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at
Datafusion, where she led internal operations and strategic planning, overall
product management and marketing communications. For the past fourteen years,
Gordon has held various senior management positions at Knight-Ridder
Information, Inc., a $300 million dollar online information company. As Senior
Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, Gordon was responsible for
worldwide marketing and management of all products and services, which
included strategic planning, new product creation and development, operations
and database management. Earlier in her career, Gordon developed products for
Mead Data Central (LEXIS/NEXIS).
    Gordon holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Immaculata College
and a Masters in Library Science from Villanova University.
    Gordon Kass brings over twenty years of experience in engineering,
technology and Internet development. Prior to joining Autoweb.com, Kass was
Vice President of Engineering for Starwave Corporation, the leading Internet
technology company, where he oversaw technical development on popular web
sites, including espn.com, abcnews.com, nba.com, nfl.com and others.
Additionally, Kass managed next-generation development of core software used
throughout Disney Corporation properties, including static and dynamic web
page publishing software, e-commerce, registration and authorization systems
and high-scale ad-serving and traffic-counting products. Kass also served as
President and CEO of Sportvision, Inc., a multimedia/Internet company. Earlier
in his career, Kaas worked for Sun Microsystems, where he managed software
development.
    Kass holds a B.A. in Math from UCLA and a M.S. in Computer Science from UC
Berkeley.

    About Autoweb.com
    Autoweb.com (http://www.Autoweb.com) is a leading consumer automotive Internet
service. The web site centralizes an extensive collection of
automotive-related commerce, content and community offerings to assist
consumers in researching, evaluating and buying new and pre-owned vehicles.
Autoweb.com offers services that enable consumers to conveniently purchase
automobile-related products and services such as vehicle insurance, financing
and extended warranty protection.