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Healthline Expands Executive Team
Highly Regarded Experts in Online Advertising and Interactive Marketing Join Healthline to Further the Company’s Ability to Address Consumer Demand and Grow Revenue

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. —June 15, 2007—Healthline Networks (www.healthline.com), the leading provider of intelligent health information services, announced today expansion of its executive team naming John Lane senior vice president of marketing and Jesse Paynter vice president of sales. Lane and Paynter will provide Healthline with a wealth of consumer healthcare advertising and marketing experience, accelerating Healthline’s growth in sales and user traffic.

"John and Jesse bring a tremendous talent to Healthline’s world-class executive team," said West Shell III, chairman and chief executive officer of Healthline. "As we continue to enhance our product offerings and improve the user experience, Jesse and John will help Healthline accelerate the company’s customer growth and profitability."

With more than a decade of experience in interactive consumer marketing, John Lane was most recently senior vice president of consumer marketing and customer acquisition at Revolution Health Group. Prior to that he held executive marketing positions with America Online (AOL), Charles Schwab, IBM and top advertising and direct marketing companies such as Highway One, Wunderman Cato Johnson, Campbell Mithun Esty, Wells Rich Greene and SSC&B. Lane earned a B.A. in history from Ohio Wesleyan University.

Healthline’s newly appointed VP of sales, Jesse Paynter, will be responsible for building out the company’s sales team and scaling the company’s advertising opportunities for both Healthline.com and select network partners. Paynter has an extensive and highly successful background in online advertising sales and related executive positions including five years with AOL directing sales in the health category. His past professional ventures include high-profile positions at ROO Group, JLP New Media, Turner Broadcasting and Ryan Partnership, among others. He holds a B.A. in communications from Marist College.

About Healthline

Healthline Networks offers an innovative approach to meeting the needs of today's health information seeker. The company's unique consumer healthcare taxonomy, begun in 1999 in collaboration with 1,100 medical specialists, powers a suite of intelligent health search, navigation and content services. Combining advanced search technology with deep medical expertise, Healthline and its business partners – a network of trusted destination sites that include publishers, portals, search engines, employers and health plans – help consumers navigate the complex world of healthcare information, empowering them to make more confident, informed decisions. Headquartered in San Francisco, Healthline is backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Reed Elsevier Ventures, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and JHK Investments, LLC.

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Bill McGee
Senior Vice President, Marketing Services
415-281-3113
bill@healthline.com