SkyCross Names Christopher Morton As Chief Executive Officer

MELBOURNE, Florida, December 17, 2002  SkyCross Inc., a leading developer of advanced RF and antenna technology, announced today that Dr. Christopher H. Morton has joined the company as President and Chief Executive Officer.

Morton, who has previously served as the company's Chairman of the Board, has 25 years of entrepreneurial and corporate leadership experience in the communications infrastructure industry, and a proven track record in developing highly successful start-ups. Morton will be responsible for enhancing SkyCross' newly established presence in the mobile phone and wireless data markets, developing upon the company's recent contract and reference design wins.

"SkyCross is at an exciting stage of its history and Chris has the talent, experience and expertise to lead the company to new levels of market success," said Lars Swanson, SkyCross Chairman of the Board. "Chris brings to SkyCross a deep knowledge of the wireless industry and RF technologies, along with a strong focus on market expansion, sales growth and operations management. We are glad to have Chris aboard."

Prior to joining SkyCross, Morton was Executive in Residence with MILCOM Technologies a developer of technology companies in partnership with defense contractors, commercial companies, federal laboratories and other leading-edge research and development sources. His role at MILCOM was to launch new communications companies. In this capacity, he served as the initial CEO to initialize business operations, recruit the senior-level management team, engage potential customers and partners, and secure venture funding. He has also served on the board of several of other companies in the communications space.

Morton's most recent MILCOM initiative was to successfully form and launch TelASIC, a high speed, mixed signal chip company in the wireless industry. TelASIC received nearly $23M in initial funding from several top-tier venture firms.

"This is a great opportunity and I look forward to building upon SkyCross' innovative antenna solutions, recent design wins and market growth," said Morton. "With SkyCross, we have an experienced management team in place, some of the brightest engineers in the field, as well as technology and products that are unmatched in the industry."

Prior to joining MILCOM, Morton served as President of Allen Telecom Systems, a company that distributes, designs and manufactures wireless infrastructure equipment, and was Chief Strategy Officer of Timeplex, a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture, implementation and support of multinational wide-area networking systems and services. Morton also founded and served as CEO for Navesink Communications, a communications company created to provide efficient access transport products to cellular and Internet service providers.

In addition, Morton has held a variety of leadership positions with AT&T., including serving as General Manager in the data networking area and Director of broadband networking. He also held a variety of technical and management positions within Bell Laboratories.

Morton earned a Ph.D. in communication systems from the University of Pennsylvania.

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