Los Angeles, California (May 15, 2000) - ComputerWorld today named eConnections, CEO, Rob Rodin as one of the "Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2000."

"For the Premier 100, ComputerWorld set out on a ground breaking, ambitious project to define who the most influential `IT Leaders' are and what makes them tick," said Maryfran Johnson, editor-in-chief of ComputerWorld. "The leadership that Rob has demonstrated this past year fit the criteria for him to be counted among Computer world's Premier 100."

Leaders were chosen for their ability to guide the effective use of IT in their organizations, to tie technology to business goals, navigate risk, nurture a staff, and build a creative work environment. .

"It is an honor to be recognized -- but the real credit goes to the IT team that built the eConnections systems," Rodin said. "Their domain expertise and relentless concentration on value is where our innovations come from."

eConnections marks the next generation of business-to-business ecommerce: comprehensive real-time global supply chain management for the electronics industry. Combining cutting-edge technology with proven process design, eConnections streamlines the complex process of bringing a product to market, giving supply chain partners a custom-tailored, integrated, and independent system of centralized private marketspace, speeding communication, cutting costs, and building margin.

Other honors for the eConnections team including being the nation's #1 IT innovators by InformationWeek last September. Rodin himself was named one of the "Top 100 Leaders for the Next Millennium" by CIO. Their technology infrastructure has twice been named the #1 B2B web site in the world by Advertising Age. They represent a breakthrough for supply chain management: new powers to collaborate, coordinate, and compete, around the world around the clock