WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- John Pleasants, the former President
of Interactive Corp's Information and Services Group and CEO of Ticketmaster,
has been named Chief Executive Officer of Revolution Health Group (RHG).
Pleasants, with a track record of turning promising ideas into household brand
names, will direct Revolution Health Group as it seeks to become the leading,
comprehensive, consumer-driven health company.
    RHG also announced that Carly Fiorina has become an investor and will
become a member of RHG's Board of Directors.  Fiorina joins RHG Chairman Steve
Case, former Secretary of State Colin Powell; former Fortune 500 CEOs Frank
Raines, Jim Barksdale and Steve Wiggins; and leading venture capitalist Miles
Gilburne, among others, as investor/directors in RHG.

    Pleasants Named CEO
    John Pleasants has held multiple leadership positions with
IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq: IACI) since 1998.  These include serving as CEO
of Ticketmaster since 2001, and President of IAC's Information and Services
Group, where he helped turn start-ups such as Match.com, Evite, and CitySearch
into household names that changed the way consumers manage some of their most
important needs.  In each of these assignments, Pleasants established himself
as a builder of a portfolio of businesses with shared technology,
infrastructure, expertise and leadership.  Knitting together a variety of
companies into cohesive operating units -- Pleasants' strategy at
InterActiveCorp -- is also the strategy that RHG has followed in its first few
months since launch in July 2005.
    "Revolution Health Group has a simple -- yet challenging -- goal:  to put
consumers at the center of the health system, giving them greater control,
choice and convenience in meeting their healthcare needs," Case said.  "John
brings an outstanding track record in building diverse businesses in sectors
undergoing transformational change, making daily life easier and more
productive for consumers and their families."
    Pleasants said, "I'm delighted to join an exceptional leadership team at
Revolution Health Group that's applying entrepreneurial thinking, expertise
and innovation to tackle one of our nation's most pressing challenges.  It is
widely regarded that the U.S. healthcare system has reached a critical point
and is ripe for breakthrough. Revolution Health Group will be a major force in
accelerating that transformation and building significant companies in the new
category of consumer-driven healthcare."

    Fiorina Joins Board
    Carly Fiorina was the CEO of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005 and served
as chairman of the board from 2000 to 2005.  Prior to her tenure with Hewlett
Packard, she held multiple leadership positions with Lucent Technologies.
    Case said, "We're delighted to welcome Carly to the RHG Board and as an
investor in RHG.  She has extensive leadership experience in developing and
leading complex business operations, identifying and bringing to market
promising technologies, and overseeing significant mergers and acquisitions --
all central to the future of our business."
    Fiorina said, "Revolution Health Group is driven by an exceptional vision
informed by the experience of world-class entrepreneurs, business innovators
and investors. I'm excited to join the board."
    In addition to Fiorina, the RHG investor/board members are (in
alphabetical order):  Jim Barksdale, Steve Case, John Delaney, Miles Gilburne,
David Golden, Colin Powell, Frank Raines, Steve Wiggins, and Jeff Zients.

    Revolution Health Group
    Revolution Health Group was established in July 2005 to create the leading
comprehensive consumer-directed healthcare company.  One of three business
groups in the Revolution LLC family of companies, RHG empowers consumers by
putting them at the center of the health system, building innovative health-
related companies through investments, acquisitions and partnerships.  RHG's
strategy is to create businesses and products that provide greater consumer
choice, control and convenience in three key healthcare sectors affected by
the rapid growth of the Internet, and defined-contribution health plans:
content; coverage; and care.

    Revolution, LLC
    Revolution, a Washington, DC-based operating and investment company
launched by Steve Case in April 2005, seeks to drive transformative change by
shifting power to consumers and building significant, category-defining
companies in the process.  Revolution's aim is to give people more choice,
control and convenience in three market sectors poised for disruptive
change -- Health, Living, and Resorts.

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