Eugene P. Beard Named To e-Smart® Technologies' Advisory Board

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - San Jose, Ca. September 17, 2003/PR Newswire via COMTEX - e-Smart® Technologies, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: ESMT), today announced that Eugene P. Beard has agreed to serve on the company's Advisory Board. Mr. Beard recently retired as Vice Chairman, Finance & Operations, of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., a worldwide advertising and marketing communications group.

A former board member of Interpublic Group, and chairman of its finance committee, Eugene Beard currently serves on the boards of directors of 59 Wall St. Fund, Old Westbury Fund, and, Mattel & Company.

Mr. Beard is a member of the Advisory Council for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and personally established the Beard Graduate and Faculty Fellowship programs for Ethics in the Professions, there. He also founded the Beard Center for Leadership & Ethics in Business at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University.

"We couldn't be happier to have Eugene Beard join our Advisory Board to assist us in building and expanding the Company, helping us to accomplish our mission to provide advanced technologies and systems to governments and industry around the world to combat terrorism and all forms of identity-based fraud," said Mary Grace, the company's president and CEO.

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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SOURCE e-Smart® Technologies, Inc.

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