NEW PRISMARK REPORT RATES INCEP TECHNOLOGIES™ AS ONE OF THE TOP TEN “IMPORTANT NEW COMPANIES” OF THE YEAR

INCEP Technologies was rated by Prismark Partners LLC, an electronic industry consulting firm, as one of the top ten “Important New Companies” of the year in their latest Electronics Industry Report 2002. The report provides global analyses and forecasts for the electronics industry, including semiconductor production forecasts. In addition, core sections explore the state of the business, list key enabling technologies, and provide a business outlook for 2002. The report is available through Prismark and is expected to ship November 2001.

Prismark describes this year’s ten innovative companies as exhibiting notable focus on the development and enhancement of materials that allow faster, smaller and more functional semiconductor devices, the drive toward more durable electronics, and the importance of processing and assembly.

Prismark notes that the trend in electronic packaging for high-end systems and subsystems has been to continuously reduce size while increasing performance and functionality. This inevitably leads to power distribution concerns as voltage decreases and current increases, thermal management problems as heat density increases, and EMI containment issues as clock frequencies continue to rise. These issues form the basis of INCEP’s proprietary technology that addresses power, thermal, and EMI challenges.

Of INCEP’s several core technologies, Prismark highlights the INCEP PowerDirect™ power interconnect as the most unique. The first release of the PowerDirect technology is a high performance coaxial interconnect solution for efficiently delivering power directly to demanding semiconductor loads. Concentric conduction paths for both power and ground provide extremely low inductance and low resistance paths.

Jim Kaskade

Jim Kaskade is a serial entrepreneur & enterprise software executive of over 36 years. He is the CEO of Conversica, a leader in Augmented Workforce solutions that help clients attract, acquire, and grow end-customers. He most recently successfully exited a PE-backed SaaS company, Janrain, in the digital identity security space. Prior to identity, he led a digital application business of over 7,000 people ($1B). Prior to that he led a big data & analytics business of over 1,000 ($250M). He was the CEO of a Big Data Cloud company ($50M); was an EIR at PARC (the Bell Labs of Silicon Valley) which resulted in a spinout of an AML AI company; led two separate private cloud software startups; founded of one of the most advanced digital video SaaS companies delivering online and wireless solutions to over 10,000 enterprises; and was involved with three semiconductor startups (two of which he founded, one of which he sold). He started his career engineering massively parallel processing datacenter applications. Jim has an Electrical and Computer Science Engineering degree from University of California, Santa Barbara, with an emphasis in semiconductor design and computer science; and an MBA from the University of San Diego with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and finance.