VANESSA BEST TO BE HONORED AT ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS EVENT

Top “40-Under-Forty”Selected By Black Business Magazine As The Region’s
Finest Young Achievers

New York, NY, May 16, 2003-The Network Journal(TNJ), a New York City-based magazine that focuses on African-American professionals and small business news has completed selections for its year 2003 top achievers who will be honored at the sixth annual “40-Under-Forty” Awards Program. Included among the honorees is Vanessa Best President & CEO at Precision Healthcare Consultants located in Baldwin, NY. The semi-formal event will be held on Thursday, June 19th at Columbia University located at 2920 Broadway (at 116th Street) in New York City from 7:00 p.m.- 10:00 p.m. Tickets are $85 if purchased by June 7 and $100 thereafter, should there be any available at the door as the program sells out each year.

The recognition event is a one of a kind in the area and profiles 40 individuals, all under the age of 40, who have achieved significant levels of success and made substantial contributions in their careers and to their communities. The 40 achievers will also be profiled in the special issue of the magazine.

The official list of honorees represents and influential roster of African American entrepreneurs and business persons from around the region and includes Sonia D. Armstead, Senior Producer of Fox 5 – Good Day New York; ArletteBeauchamps, CEO of BookSweepers Inc.; Emmanuel Kojo Bentil, SVP Strategic Marketing & Business development for Motown Records Group; Vanessa Best, President & CEO of Precision Healthcare Consultants; Marion Bobb-McKoy M.D., Medical Director of Montefiore Medical Center; Karen Boykin-Townes, Director of Public Affairs of Pfizer Inc; Carolyn Doreen Brockington M.D., Neurologist of Beth Israel Medical Center; Rochelle Brown, Author-Producer, Emeril Live! Of Television Food Network; Baron Carr, Asst. VP. Corporate Marketing of JP Morgan Chase; Sheila D. Collins, Network Community Manager of Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies; Harold E. Doley III, President of the Lugano Group Incorporated; Etu Evans, CEO/Designer of Sole Kitchen SoHo in Harlem; Andre S. Gleaton M.A., M.Ed., Director, Adult Education Dept. of TV Thirteen/Wnet; Kevin B. Hailstock, partner/chief operating Manager of Web Emerse; Beatrice A. Hamza, Associate of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP; Daniella Jo Harrison, Executive Director of Tri-County Home Nursing Service; Seni Hazzan, CEO of J.I.L. LLC; Robert Jones, Staff Director, Electronic Communications of IEEE; Christopher Mack, Chief Creative Officer of Niles Communication Group, Inc.; J. Alexander Martin, Executive Vice President of FUBU The Collection; Onida Coward Mayers, Executive Director of Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT); Dawn Elizabeth McNeil M.D., Medical Officer of Food & Drug Administration; Carlisle Paul, Field Representative of NYC Carpenters – Labor Management; Mike Paul, President of MGP & Associates PR; Angel R. Potter CPA, CEO of Apowerment Financial Inc.; Morris L. Reid, Founding Partner/Managing Director of Westin Rinehart; Ricardo A. Reyes, President/CEO of International Transport Solution, Inc; Wayne Roye, Vice President of TROI.NET; Bernadith A. Russell, M.D., OB/GYN at Long Island College Hospital; Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz , Researcher at New York University; Leisa M. Smith, Partner of Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto LLP; Tracey Salmon Smith, of Counsel for Sills Cummis Radin Tischman Epstein & Gross, PC; Jameel Hassan Spencer, President of Blue Flame Marketing & Advertising; Dina D. Strachan, M.D. of Tribeca Skin Center; Kenneth P. Thomson, Founding partner of Thompson Wigdor & Gilly, LLP; Terence D. Tolbert, Chief of Staff for NYS Assemblyman, Keith Wright; LeJuano P. Varnell, Investment Officer of Fleet Development Ventures; Lena L. West, Founder & CEO of XynoMedia Development; James C. Woodley, AVP/Dir. Of Training at XA Advisors and Clarence Wooten Jr., Principal of Wooten Ventures LLC.