Hosted Email Provider Everyone.net Names New Executives
to Support Growth Goals
 
San Jose, CA — May 17, 2005— Everyone.net, a leading provider of hosted email, to over 1 million paid mailboxes worldwide today announced that Naresh Makhijani has been appointed Chief Operating Officer, and that Michael Benham has been appointed to the newly-created position of Vice President of Finance and Administration. Makhijani and Benham each bring over 20 years' management experience to Everyone.net.
 
Makhijani comes to Everyone.net from SAVID LLC, a consulting firm that provides market development and product strategy services to technology companies. Prior to SAVID, Makhijani was Vice President and General Manager at DIVA Systems, a Video-On-Demand system provider for digital cable, where he oversaw development.

Makhijani also served in management roles at companies including Geocast, Space Systems/Loral, and Hughes/Boeing.

Prior to joining Everyone.net, Benham was CFO of Homes.com, Inc, an online solution provider for the real estate industry where he stabilized the Company's financial position and reengineered the finance department during the company's reorganization.

Prior to Homes.com, Benham was CFO of Virtual Rain, Inc. and held a variety of financial management positions at Varian Associates, Inc.

"We are very excited that Naresh and Michael are joining our management team. They bring proven operational and financial experience to Everyone.net that will help us execute our business strategy and achieve our goals," said Michael Rose, President and CEO of Everyone.net.

 

About Everyone.net
Everyone.net (www.everyone.net) is based in San Jose, California, and offers integrated email, anti-spam and anti-virus services to multiple markets worldwide. The company has provisioned over 30 million mailboxes for over 300,000 domains since 1998. Its cost-effective solutions are built on a highly-scalable infrastructure and include advanced services like IMAP as well as spam protection and anti-virus. The company's financial backers include two premier venture capital firms, El Dorado Ventures and Labrador Ventures. For more information about Everyone.net, please visit www.everyone.net or call 1-877-24-EMAIL.