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ISTAR Americas Names Sales Manager for Federal Defense Markets

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Herndon, Va., 27 November 2001 – ISTAR Americas Inc. has named Christopher Gilliam as Manager of Federal Defense & Security Markets. Gilliam will be responsible for developing markets for ISTAR among various U.S. Federal agencies and service commands. He will report to Mark Eustis, ISTAR America’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing, who recently joined ISTAR to head up a rapidly growing sales and marketing team.

Before joining ISTAR, Gilliam worked as Federal Sales Manager for Space Imaging of Thornton, Colo., where he developed and serviced the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) account. Prior to Space Imaging, Gilliam spent more than a decade at Intergraph Corp. of Huntsville, Ala., responsible for selling digital and hardcopy map production and data warehousing systems to government agencies and the private sector.

"With 12 years of professional experience selling technical solutions to all levels of government and private industry, Chris is well connected in the defense and security communities and understands the geospatial requirements of these organizations," said Mark Eustis. "His background and experience will help us broaden the market for ISTAR products in agencies that need timely and accurate imagery and 3D surface models."

With headquarters in Herndon, Virginia, ISTAR Americas, Inc. introduced the HRSC airborne imaging scanner technology to North America last year. Since then, the company has developed an archive of high-accuracy, one-meter ‘TrueOrtho™’ images and one-meter-accurate 3D surface models for over 2/3 of the most populous U.S. cities. Digital data for each of these cities is now available for purchase. The company is expanding and renewing its archive of pre-processed data to include all of the major metropolitan regions in the U.S. and Canada, and will update these data sets on an ongoing basis.

About ISTAR

An EADS company headquartered in Sophia Antipolis, France, ISTAR is the world’s premier cartographic company, specializing in the production of digital geographic databases created for telecommunications design and other GIS applications. ISTAR has processed satellite and aerial images covering more than 25 million square kilometers of the Earth’s surface. ISTAR’s online HotSpots catalog contains 2,000 cities and regions in more than 100 countries, and is updated daily. More information is available at www.istar.com

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