Kathleen Bloch Joins Echelon as Senior Vice President and General Counsel(SAN JOSE, CA - January 13, 2003) - Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON)), a leading provider of open control network solutions worldwide, announced today that Kathy Bloch will join the company as senior vice president and general counsel effective February 3rd, 2003. "Kathy brings to Echelon a wealth of practical legal and business experience which will be an enormous asset to us as we continue our growth," said Ken Oshman, Echelon's chairman and CEO. "We are very fortunate to be able to add a person of Kathy's caliber to our team. Kathy has worked with Echelon for many years. She understands our business and enjoys the trust and respect of our Board of Directors and our senior managers." Ms. Bloch joins Echelon from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she was a partner with a practice in the corporate finance and securities areas. She represented both privately held and public companies in diverse technology markets, as well as in the biotech, manufacturing, retail and financial services industries. Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati she was a partner with the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton. Ms. Bloch received her law degree from Stanford Law School in 1981 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration (emphasis in Finance) from the University of Southern California in 1978, where she was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma and graduated with honors. About Echelon Corporation The protocol underlying LonWorks networks and the signaling used by Echelon's power line and free topology transceivers have both been adopted as standards by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Echelon is also a founding member of the LonMark® Interoperability Association, an open industry forum of hundreds of leading manufacturers, integrators, and users dedicated to promoting the use of interoperable LonWorks devices. More information is available at http://www.lonmark.org. Further information regarding Echelon can be found at http://www.echelon.com. ### Echelon, LonWorks, LonMark, the LonMark logo, and the Echelon logo are trademarks of Echelon Corporation registered in the United States and other countries.
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