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Contact: Estelle Brand estelle@xore.com (215) 643-3110

Exclusive Ore® Appoints Pacotti as Vice President of Sales

Blue Bell, PA – 09/11/02 –

Exclusive Ore today announced that James E. “Bud” Pacotti has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. In his new capacity, Bud will focus on the marketing and sale of Exclusive Ore’s software product, XAffinity^®, database enabled data mining for analysis of market basket, equipment maintenance, and click stream data.

Bud Pacotti comes to Exclusive Ore from WhiteCross Systems where he was Regional Manager, introducing WhiteCross Systems’ Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) technology into the central and western US. Throughout his career Bud has concentrated in the sales arena, holding both Regional Manager and Vice President of Sales & Marketing positions, including management of sales and support operations in Latin America and Japan. During his career he has helped build and sell two companies in which he worked his way up to the President’s position. Bud says that his main interest and enjoyment lies in “growing the market presence of smaller companies by accepting the challenge for creating new markets and expanding their business base through increased product sales.”

Bud’s 25+ years of experience includes direct selling and managing sales and support groups in such key areas as massively parallel processing (MPP) and data base applications, web and broadband analytics, data mining, project management/cost control systems and finite capacity and supply chain solutions.

For further information about Exclusive Ore, please visit the Exclusive Ore web site at www.exclusiveore.com, or contact Bud directly at (303) 798-6644 or via email at bpacotti@exclusiveore.com.

About Exclusive Ore

Exclusive Ore Inc. was founded in 1997 as a consulting and software services company whose sole emphasis was the delivery of quality data mining solutions. Since that time, Exclusive Ore has successfully implemented solutions in a wide variety of industries including Telco, Retail, Finance, and Consumer Packaged Goods.