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< Clifford R. Kurtzman >

Clifford R. Kurtzman is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Tenagra Corporation, an established leader in the online economy which since 1994 has been executing successful online projects and delivering creative Internet marketing strategies to organizations such as Compaq, Unisys, IBM, and Shell Chemical.

Tenagra delivers best-of-class online development and marketing campaigns to clients worldwide, ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to innovative dot.com startups. In addition to directing overall operations of the corporation, Clifford supports high-level design and strategic consulting for many of Tenagra's clients.

In March 2001, Clifford received the "Texas eComm Ten Award" from the Texas Electronic Commerce Association, ecognizing him as one of ten Texans behind the many facets of Commerce driving the State's business and economy. Clifford and Tenagra have also received the Blue Chip Enterprise Award from Mass Mutual and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recognizing inspirational achievement in business.

In addition to being Chairman of Tenagra's board of directors, Clifford served as a founding member on the board of directors of the Association of Internet Professionals (AIP), an international society for the Internet professional services industry. Clifford has a Bachelor of Science degree (1981), summa cum laude, in Aerospace Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a Master of Science (1984) and a Doctor of Philosophy (1988) degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Clifford founded and coordinates the annual Tenagra Awards for Internet Marketing Excellence, a high-profile awards program which provides peer-review recognition of fundamental achievements in the Internet marketing industry on a worldwide basis. Under Clifford's guidance, Tenagra also operates the Online Advertising Discussion List - the Internet's leading online forum for the discussion of online advertising, public relations and publicity, the eCommerce Discussion Forum, and The Tenagra Apogee newsletter, bringing approximately 35,000 worldwide readers "Rocket Science for the Digital Economy" every two weeks.