Executive Bio - August, 1999

Ronald V. Bocinsky, Jr.
Vice President, Copernicus Interactive, Inc.

Telephone: (770) 664-0388
Email: ron@schoolnotes.com

Mr. Bocinsky founded Data Sense, Inc. (DSI) in 1987 to develop online information services. DSI created the first online network service in Atlanta to link mortgage lenders to the real estate community using asynchronous communications and the Multiple Listing Service network. Today, DSI is focused on developing Internet communities. One such commmunity is SchoolNotes.com, a web based service that allows teachers to post school information on the Internet for parents and students to access. In June of 1999, Mr. Bocinsky sold the SchoolNotes.com property to Copernicus Interactive, Inc.

As Vice President at Copernicus, Ron is responsible for setting the direction of the SchoolNotes.com service while establishing strategic alliances with leading industry partners. Mr. Bocinsky has over sixteen years of valuable experience in information technology and data communications. His career has spanned many critical areas of business management including strategy development, sales, marketing, engineering, and operations.

In addition to his responsibilities at Copernicus and Data Sense, Inc., Mr. Bocinsky has held a number of executive management positions in the telecommunications industry. From 1989 through 1996, Ron worked for BellSouth, a Regional Bell Operating Company, where he played key roles in planning and implementing new data network and information service ventures including BellSouth's X.25 data network, X.400 electronic messaging service, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Network, transactional telephony services, and BellSouth's Internet service, BellSouth.net. During his tenure at BellSouth, Ron held numerous management positions including Vice President and Senior Program Manager, Managed Facility Services.

Prior to BellSouth, Ron held positions in systems engineering and data center operations management for Sprint from 1983 until 1987. Ron was also instrumental in founding and serving as Excutive Director of CommerceNet Southeast, a nonprofit industry organization promoting Internet Commerce.

Mr. Bocinsky holds a degree in computer engineering from the University of Florida and has completed numerous Executive Management courses through the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, Atlanta. Ron is also the inventor of a patent, US5371797: Secure electronic funds transfer from telephone or unsecured terminal .

Ron enjoys tennis, golf, skiing, and gardening. He is married with four beautiful children and resides in Woodstock, Georgia.