Charles R. Black, Jr., Appointed to the Board of e-Smart Technologies, Inc.
July 17 2006 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
WASHINGTON, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- e-Smart Technologies,
Inc., (Pink Sheets: ESMT) ("e-SMART" or the "Company") is pleased
to announce the appointment of Mr. Charles R. Black, Jr., as a
director of the Company. Mr. Black is the Chairman of BKSH &
Associates and is recognized as one of the nation's leading public
affairs professionals. Mr. Black is best known as one of America's
leading Republican political strategists and has served as senior
advisor to Presidents Reagan and Bush. He also served as a
principal public spokesman for President Bush in the 1992
presidential campaign. During 1990, Mr. Black served as chief
spokesman for the Republican National Committee and in 2000 Mr.
Black also served on President George W. Bush's campaign as a
volunteer political advisor and surrogate spokesman. An attorney
with more than twenty-five years of experience in government,
public affairs and politics, Mr. Black has managed the successful
elections of more than ten members of the U.S. Senate and more than
a dozen members of Congress. Mr. Black serves as the principal
legislative and public affairs advisor to several Fortune 500
companies and trade associations. He currently serves as
Co-Chairman of the Civitas Group, LLC., a unique multi-disciplinary
security consulting firm. The leadership team at Civitas is an
impressive gathering of top security experts, including Robert H.
Swindell, who spent nearly two decades with Lehman Brothers as head
of its U.S. Technology Banking; David Howe, a former Special
Assistant to President George W. Bush and the Senior Director for
Emergency Preparedness and Response at the Homeland Security
Council at the White House; Penrose "Parney" Albright, former
Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology; Richard
A. Falkenrath is the former Deputy Assistant to the President and
Deputy Homeland Security Advisor and also served as Special
Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Policy and Plans
within the Office of Homeland Security and Warren Rudman, former
U.S. Senator from New Hampshire who served as Chairman of the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President
Clinton and was Co-Chair of the U.S. Commission on National
Security. "We're very pleased," said Mary Grace, President and CEO
of e-Smart Technologies, "that Mr. Black has agreed to serve as a
director of the Company. Mr. Black's political experience and
expertise," explained Ms. Grace, "along with his successful history
as a consultant to many Fortune 500 companies will be a great asset
to e-Smart." In commenting on becoming a director of the Company,
Mr. Black said "I believe e-Smart's advanced Super Smart Card(TM)
and Biometric Verification Security System (BVS2)(TM) can provide
the protection and security that the US and the world needs today
and I'm very pleased to be part of bringing this important
technology to the world." e-Smart is also pleased to announce its
new website address at http://www.e-smart.com/. All information
concerning developments with the company will be made available at
the new website and no longer available at
http://www.e-smarttechnologies.com/. e-Smart is the exclusive
licensee in the US and Asia of the Super Smart Card(TM), the Super
Smart Passport(TM) and the Biometric Verification Security System
(BVS2)(TM). The Company seeks to be the leading provider of high
technology security systems that can be used to combat fraud and
terrorism. e-Smart's systems and products enable government
agencies and commercial enterprises to continuously and securely
verify the identity of citizens, personnel, customers and any other
persons seeking physical or logical access. e-Smart Technologies
offers what experts believe to be the highest form of
identity-based and credential-based security with no profiling or
erosion of civil rights. SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT Statements in this
news release that relate to future plans, financial results or
projections, events or performance are forward-looking statements
within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of
1934, as amended. While these statements are made to convey to the
public the Company's progress, business opportunities and growth
prospects, readers are cautioned that such forward-looking
statements represent the management's opinion. While management
believes such representations to be true and accurate based on
information available to the Company, at this time, actual results
may differ materially from those described. For more information
about e-Smart Technologies, please visit our new website at
http://www.e-smart.com/ or contact e-Smart Media Relations at
703-768-7477. DATASOURCE: e-Smart Technologies, Inc. CONTACT:
e-Smart Media Relations, +1-703-768-7477 Web site:
http://www.e-smart.com/
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