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Winners Internet Network, Inc. Adds Significant Technology Expertise to Its Board of Directors With the Appointment of Douglas J. Morgan.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Feb 18, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE).
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Winners Internet Network, Inc. Adds Significant Technology Expertise to Its Board of Directors With the Appointment of Douglas J. Morgan.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Feb 18, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- David C. Skinner, Jr., President and CEO of Winners Internet Network, Inc. (WINR), www.winr.net, announced today that WINR has appointed Douglas J. Morgan, President and CEO of Performance Strategies, Inc., to the Company's board of directors.
Mr. Morgan is a magna cum laude graduate from both Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelors Degree and Stanford University with a Masters Degree, both in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Mr. Morgan was also a National Science Foundation Fellow.
He has over 25 years of experience in the computer and hi-tech industry with an early background in programming, design, and project management with companies such as Computer Sciences Corporation, Hughes, NCR, and Hewlett Packard. He founded and served from 1981 to 1984 as President of DynaMicro, Inc., a software and computer game development company known for its development of the national best selling game Dungeons of Daggorath.
Mr. Morgan also served as Chairman of Unified Technologies, Inc., a hardware/software development company from 1981 to 1985, when the company merged with Hirsch Electronics Corp., one of its clients. He served as Vice-President of Engineering for Hirsch, a successful privately-held networked security system developer and manufacturer,
from 1985 to 1989. From 1989-1994, he served as President and Chairman of Stratos Scientific Corp., a technical consulting firm, and from 1995 to 1997, he served as the Chairman of Visual Technologies, Inc., a multi-media development company. From 1995 to the present he has served
as President and CEO of Performance Strategies, Inc., an international consulting firm serving the hi-tech and related industries and providing high-level assistance in strategic planning, corporate communications, business model and financial development, network and Internet strategies, and web-site development. He is the holder of 5
U.S. Patents relating to networking, security and computer systems design.
"The appointment of Douglas Morgan to our board adds immeasurably to our technical depth and expertise going forward," commented Mr. Skinner. "His diverse and accomplished background in technology and fields ranging from security and networking to entertainment and
multi-media will be a profound complement to our strategic planning team as we proceed to implement Winner's global vision."
"We anticipate that his business and consulting contacts will provide significant opportunities for partnership and technology sharing that will greatly benefit Winners' rollout of its financial and e-commerce solutions. His demonstrated innovation in the networking, security and
computer systems fields dovetails perfectly with our business strategy and leverages our ongoing efforts to provide proprietary products and solutions in our marketplace."
Mr. Morgan added, "In Winners I found a company rapidly and effectively executing a profoundly well-conceived and integrated strategy to achieve significant stature in the banking, brokering, transaction processing and e-commerce spaces, first in Europe and then expanding world-wide. It is a dynamic time in the growth of the company and I am
proud and pleased to work with this first class management team and be able to contribute to this exciting future."

"We welcome Doug to WINR and believe that our shareholders will soon be benefiting from the expertise and contributions of the prestigious team we've assembled to advise and assist the Company as we move ahead," concluded Mr. Skinner.

About Winners Internet Network

Winners Internet Network (www.winr.net) is rapidly positioning itself as one of the premier financial transaction processors and integrators in Europe. Through a series of recent acquisitions and partnerships, it
has laid the groundwork for an integrated financial processing and e-commerce network that will offer compelling benefits and proprietary advantages over its competitors. Winners services both vendors and
customers in the expanding Internet-based e-commerce space with state-of-the-art secure financial transaction software and technology.

Winners Internet Network recently acquired a significant interest in SupraNet AG one of the fast growing and most profitable ISPs in Europe.
Both companies jointly market the Supra Secure Mail system (SSM), which supports a 448 bit key security protocol, making it the most advanced and secure encryption technology available.

Winners Internet Network, Inc. is a public company trading on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol 'WINR.' The Company has also filed an application for a German listing of its shares in order to introduce WINR to the European stock market and investment community.

Disclaimer

Information contained in this news release - other than historical
information - should be considered as forward-looking, pursuant to the
"safe harbor" provisions of the of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, and as such are subject to various risk factors and
uncertainties. For instance, Winners Internet Network, Inc.'s
strategies and operations involve risks of competition, changing market
conditions, changes in laws and regulations affecting these industries,
and numerous other factors. Accordingly, actual results may differ
materially from those in such forward-looking statements.

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CONTACT: Winners Internet Network, Inc.
David Skinner Jr.
Phone: 1-800-358-4242
Email: dcsjr@winr.net
or
Investor's contact for the U.S.:
Columbia Financial Group, Inc.
Kevin Holmes
Phone: 1-888-301-6271
Email: urpressed@aol.com
or
Investor's contact for Europe:
World of Internet.com, AG
Torsten Prochnow and Dennis C. Hass,
Phone: 011-49-172-4031383 or 011-49-172-4062621
Website: www.worldofinternet.com

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