McEver, who has served on Clickshare's advisory board since 1997, is president and founder of Berkshire Capital Corp., a New York-based mergers-and-acquisitions advisory to the financial-services industry formed in 1983.

"We are delighted that Bruce McEver has agreed to increase his involvement in Clickshare through a term of service on our board," said Nell Fields, president and CEO. "His unmatched knowledge of the investment world, early interest in Internet technologies, and personal stake in Clickshare make him an ideal colleague."

Prior to founding Berkshire Capital, McEver served as assistant to the chairman of PaineWebber Group, Inc. for mergers and acquisitions. Before that, he was vice president for mergers and acquisitions with Blyth Eastman Dillon, Inc., a firm acquired by PaineWebber Group, Inc. in 1981. Mr. McEver began his career as a venture-capital analyst at Bessemer Securities, Inc. and was an assistant vice president, corporate finance, at Chemical Bank.

Mr. McEver received a BIE from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He was an exchange student at the Technische Hochschule in Hannover, Germany. As a U.S. Navy lieutenant, he was on the Pentagon staff of the assistant defense secretary, systems analysis.

McEver serves as a corporate trustee of Trustees of Reservations (Mass)., and is a director of the Connecticut Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. He is a poet, avid reader and published author.

About Clickshare
The Clickshare Service is an Internet transaction infrastructure for single sign-on, privacy-protected purchasing of text, music, video, software and other products and services.

Consumers have one account at a most-trusted website and buy from other websites without having to pass around a credit-card number, repeatedly register or give out personal information. Banks, ISPs, associations, retailers, wireless and other telecommunications carriers use it to enhance, extend and share customer relationships with publishers and entertainment providers.

Clickshare's clients and partners include MultiService Corp., Belo Corp., MediaNews Group, McClatchey Corp., Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, Comtex News Network Inc., China Online Inc., HomeTips.com, uclick.com (Andrews McMeel/Universal Press), the Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller Times, Foster's Daily Democrat (Dover, N.H.), the Concord (N.H.) Monitor, the Sioux City (Iowa) Journal, the Lawrence (Ks.) Journal-World, and others.

Clickshare has offices in Portland, Maine, and Williamstown, Mass. Its investors include Sawgrass Seacoast Investors LLC, the University of Massachusetts and private individuals, including founding executives of PeopleSoft Inc., and the former publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Chicago Sun-Times. Its executives, board and advisors include veterans of the publishing and financial-services industries.

Contacts:
For Clickshare:
Edward Bride, 413-442-7718 [bride@clickshare.com]
Bill Densmore, 877-340-0436 [densmore@clickshare.com]