CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS In 1995, the Board of Directors adopted a policy requiring that any transactions between the Company and its officers, directors, principal shareholders and their affiliates be on terms no less favorable to the Company than could be obtained from unrelated third parties and that any such transactions be approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors. In 2001, we paid, as compensation for services rendered to the Company and for sales generated, an aggregate of $325,100 to Michael Gang, the son of Stan Gang, the Company’s Chairman of the Board. Michael Gang serves as National Account Manager/Sector Director and has served as a Director since September 1995 and as Secretary of the Company from September 1995 to October 1997. Following Stan Gang’s retirement as Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective December 1, 2001, the duties of the CEO devolved upon the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, consisting of Ira Cohen, Thomas F. Dorazio and Doreen A. Wright. The Board abolished the Executive Committee in April 2002. Effective March 15, 2002, the Board retained Richard Erickson, a technology and operations executive with 20 years of industry experience, as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Erickson, who joined the Company in a consulting capacity through New England Associates, LLC, a professional services turnaround consultancy of which Mr. Erickson is president, was most recently Senior Vice President, Operations of Scient, Inc., an e-business consulting firm. Mr. Erickson previously held the same position with iXL Enterprises, Inc. prior to the 2001 merger of Scient and iXL. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Erickson was Managing Director, Tri-State Region, of Aztec Technology Partners, a network and e-infrastructure consulting services firm. From 1988 to 1998, Mr. Erickson was a principal and President of Digital Network Associates, a network integration services company. Pursuant to the terms of his engagement, Mr. Erickson has been retained for a minimum term of six months at $15,000 per month, plus a bonus of $90,000 payable upon certain contingencies and a fully-vested option or warrant for 25,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock. During the term of his consulting engagement, Mr. Erickson will execute the duties and exercise the responsibilities of chief executive officer. At the discretion of the Company’s Board of Directors, the consulting engagement may be converted into an employment agreement at an annual base salary of $260,000. Mr. Erickson would also be entitled to, among other things, a performance bonus of up to 80% of base salary based on mutually agreed criteria and an additional 275,000 stock options, including a guaranteed minimum realizable sum of $600,000, representing the aggregate difference between the exercise price of options and the fair market value of the Company’s Common Stock underlying such options, on the exercise of all options held by Mr. Erickson in the event of a sale or merger of the Company within two years of the commencement of his employment. In the event of the conversion of the consulting engagement into an employment agreement, or earlier, Mr. Erickson would be nominated for election as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company. 18 |