Elliott H. Cole to Join e-Smart® Technologies Advisory Board

New Advisory Board to Guide Company's Growth

August 12, 2003 - San Jose, Ca. August 11, 2003/PR Newswire via COMTEX - e-Smart® Technologies, Inc., announced the agreement of Mr. Elliot H. Cole to join the Company's newly formed Advisory Board and to act as a consultant to the Company. A senior partner with the firm of Patton Boggs, LLP (Washington, DC), Mr. Cole has practiced corporate law in the nation's capitol for over 40 years, more than 30 of those years as a partner at Patton Boggs.

Mr. Cole's expertise lies in the representation of early-stage companies. As a counselor of start-ups through mezzanine and later-stage financing, he assists with bringing along to maturity companies in a wide range of businesses. His broad-based contacts with financiers and investors have provided capital and management assistance to a number of firm's clients over the years. Mr. Cole serves on the boards of numerous business, community and social organizations, and has been a trustee of his alma mater, Boston University, for over 20 years.

Mary Grace, president and CEO of e-Smart®'s stated, "Elliott Cole brings to e-Smart® his corporate acumen and world of contacts at a time when the Company is transitioning into its next stage of development. Once again, we are gratified that a person of Elliot's caliber and experience has the confidence in e-Smart®'s management, business plan and technology to join the Company team."

e-Smart® offers government and industry complete, fully integrated physical and logical security systems centered around its biometrically powered Super Smart Card™. e-Smart® and its affiliate, Homeland Defense, Inc., recently announced that they will install and showcase e-Smart®'s technologies at the Port of Beaumont, Texas; a strategic port in the highly vulnerable belt of Texas petrochemical ports.

In commenting on his new position, Mr. Cole said "e-Smart® offers a solution for homeland defense that I believe in. In my opinion, this country needs a system of identity verification that protects our citizens from terrorists but does not create another "Big Brother" watching over our shoulders. e-Smart® and its affiliates offer such a system." Mr. Cole went on to say "I appreciate having been invited to e-Smart®'s new Advisory Board. I will do my best to assist the Company on its quest to help keep America safe and in becoming a success for its shareholders."

About e-Smart® Technologies, Inc.
e-Smart® Technologies seeks to be a leading provider of high technology security systems that can be used to combat fraud and terrorism. e-Smart® products such as the BVS2™ (Biometric Verification Security System™) or the BV-HDS™ (Biometric Verification Homeland Defense System™) working with the Super Smart Card™ subsystem enable government agencies and commercial enterprises to continuously verify, certify and manage identification and access of citizens, personnel, customers and any other persons seeking physical or logical access. e-Smart® Technologies offers what it believes to be the highest form of identity based and credential based security available with no profiling or erosion of civil rights.

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