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  Keenan & Associates Teams With Enwisen to Launch Keenan Personal ChoiceSM, HR Decision Support and Communication Tool for California Public School, Healthcare, and Public Entity Customers  
 
  Keenan Personal Choice – Suite of online employee benefits information and decision support tools for 350,000 of Keenan & Associates employee benefits customers.  
  NOVATO, CA (October 9, 2003) — Keenan & Associates, the largest privately held brokerage firm in California, has signed an agreement with Enwisen, Inc., to provide a rich suite of online employee benefits information and decision support tools to 350,000 of its employee benefits customers, including school districts, community colleges, and healthcare organizations.  
  Under the terms of the agreement, Keenan & Associates will offer employers, employees and dependents online access to a host of benefits information through Keenan Personal ChoiceSM, a fully customizable portal that Keenan & Associates will establish for each of its customers.  
  Enwisen, a leader in mid-to-large market Human Resource communication solutions, will rapidly deploy its patented knowledge-management solution to every one of Keenan’s employee benefits customers, putting critical information into the hands of employees to help them become more informed consumers. Full implementation will be complete by 1Q 2004.  
  Sean Smith, CEO of Keenan & Associates, says, “We see Keenan Personal Choice as an exciting new robust and scalable Internet service platform for our organization. It will provide easily navigable, 24/7 access to information our customers and their employees a re telling us they need. With Keenan Personal Choice, we are bringing to the desktops of 350,000 employees a one-stop destination for every benefit that is available to them through their employer.”  
  Says Keenan’s Smith, “We recognize that employees need access and support tools to address many diverse challenges – ranging from eldercare issues, locating skilled nursing facilities, dependent care, health plan networks, legislative rights such as COBRA and HIPAA to identifying resources for college planning, home buying, improving personal credit rating, and links to important retirement sites like PERS/STRS, and Social Security. Keenan Personal Choice is a direct response to really listening to our customers’ needs, and responding with best-of-breed products and services to exceed their expectations.”  
  Enwisen’s CEO Wally Smith, says, “We see Keenan’s decision to partner with us as indicative of their boldness and commitment to maintain their leadership role in California schools and beyond. In particular we are also pleased to see Enwisen’s technology being offered and rolled out for Keenan & Associates’ school district customers, employees and teachers statewide. This new partnership will enable Keenan & Associates public sector businesses with the same kind of functionality that leading private corporations are adopting.”  
  Keenan & Associates is dedicated to providing comprehensive employee benefits, workers compensation and property liability consulting and brokerage services to very specific niche markets, including California public school districts, community colleges, hospital and medical groups as well as cities, counties and municipalities.  
 
  About Keenan & Associates  
  Keenan & Associates is a full-service brokerage and consulting firm serving the western region of the U.S. Keenan offers a complete range of services to the healthcare industry and California public schools, including insurance, risk management, third-party claims administration, integrated disability, and consulting. Keenan’s corporate office is located in Torrance, with field offices located in the California cities of Oakland, Rancho Cordova, San Jose, Riverside, Westlake Village, and San Clemente. Founded in 1972, Keenan & Associates is the 24th largest insurance brokerage firm in the United States, and the largest independent broker in California. For more information, call 1.800.645.8102, or visit www.keenanassoc.com.  
 
  About Enwisen  
  Enwisen provides HR communication and knowledgebase solutions to employers and service providers. Our solutions help companies streamline the front-end delivery of HR services by improving the way HR communicates complex information to their workforce, empowering employees, managers, and HR professionals to make smarter decisions, and complementing the majority of systems in use by HR departments today. Founded in 1994, Enwisen is headquartered in Novato, CA. For more information, call (800) 685-5578 or visit www.enwisen.com.