ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla., Oct. 17, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Metropolis Technologies Corp. (Pink Sheets:MTPT) announced today that Mr. Hector Sectzer, President of BCC News and CEO of Stage 54 Productions, will join the Metropolis Board of Directors, effective December 1st, 2006.
Mr. Sectzer is President of BCC News (www.bccnews.us) (note: website is password protected), an international news syndicate which partners with over 22,000 news companies worldwide; including NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, CNBC, MSNBC, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The New York & LA Times, Inc Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, to name a few. BCC News maintains an opt-in email database in excess of 100 million names -- one of the largest in the world. The company's email, rich media, and video-streaming network are backed by Internet data centers housing some 500 high-speed servers worldwide.
Mr. Sectzer is also CEO of Stage 54 Productions (www.stage54.com). Stage 54 Productions is a Los Angeles based production company that develops, packages and produces feature films and television shows for the domestic and international markets.
Mr. Sectzer was the co-founder of "Laugh Aid" a non-profit organization that raised money for children afflicted with fatal diseases. The project attracted the attention of people like Jennie White, the mother of Ryan White, the first child to die of AIDS due to a transfusion, as well as Elton John and former president Ronald Reagan. He was also partner and organizer of The National Coalition of Concerned Americans, which began feeding 50 people weekly with one truck of food donated by local supermarkets and soon grew to over ten semi's and the feeding of 50,000 people weekly in southern California.
Mr. Sectzer stated, "I am extremely excited to have become part of such an innovative and driven company. I foresee that with all the current and pending talent involved, Metropolis' success will exceed all of our expectations."
Metropolis Technologies' President, Michael Smith, stated, "We are very pleased to be able to bring a talent of Hector's capability, renown and influence to the Board of Metropolis. Hector is a highly successful businessman who possesses intimate knowledge of the media and entertainment sectors throughout America and well beyond its borders. These are both essential areas of Metropolis' 3-year Strategic Growth Plan. We could not have picked a better mentor to guide and influence us through this process."
Smith also stated, "Mr. Sectzer marks the first of a number of exceptional new Board Members, from various backgrounds and strategic areas of expertise who are slated to join the company."
About Metropolis Technologies Corp.
Metropolis has a strategic platform to capitalize with the present and future way in which businesses, associations, artists and entertainers, venues and consumers communicate, create partnerships and develop revenue generating activities and transactions within the online universe.
Our mission is to innovate -- bringing the power, ease of use and massive reach of the internet together with our constantly evolving software solutions to deliver better products, customized services and unique business solutions. Today, Metropolis is offering highly advanced, scalable e-ticketing and portal solutions to clients in North America, South America and the Caribbean with a deeper commitment to provide our products and solutions to clients and consumers on a global scale.
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