Change to Board of Directors

Auxinet PLC 16 August 2000 Appointment of director Nick Temple, former chief executive and chairman of IBM UK, was yesterday appointed a non-executive director of auxinet, the AIM listed e-commerce enabler. The auxinet Group incorporates DataCash, the leading e-commerce payments solutions company, e-commerce search specialists, boldly-go.com, and Corporate Executive Search. Nicholas J. Temple (age 52) has 30 years experience in the global technology market-place with IBM. He was appointed chief executive of IBM UK in 1992 and subsequently chairman in 1995. Since leaving IBM in 1995 he has been appointed non-executive director of a number of leading-edge technology companies and is currently a non-executive director of Electrocomponents plc, Blick plc and Cyber-CV Limited (chairman). From 1997 to 1999 he was chief executive of Armature Limited. Commenting on the appointment, David Bailey, chairman of auxinet, said: 'Nick's experience and deep breadth of knowledge and industry relationships will accelerate auxinet's ability to maximise the growth opportunities available to the Group within the global e-commerce market-place'. For further information, please contact: David Bailey Chairman, auxinet plc 020 7550 1000 John Coyle Clerkenwell Communications 020 7713 0900 0370 687 370 07699 727 796 (pager)