Exhibit 99.1


eB2B Commerce Names Robert Priddy and Thom Waye to Board of Directors



NEW YORK -  January 24, 2003 -  eB2B Commerce, Inc.  (BB: EBTB.OB) a leader in
business-to-business  transaction  management  services,  announced  today  that
Robert L. Priddy has been elected Chairman of the Board,  replacing Bruce Haber,
who  has  resigned.  Mr.  Haber  will  continue  to  assist  the  Company  as an
independent consultant.


Mr. Priddy is currently chairman and chief executive officer of RMC Capital,
LLC. He was one of the four founding partners of ValuJet Airlines and served in
a variety of executive positions for the airline through 1997, following its
merger with AirTran Airways. Mr. Priddy remains a Director of AirTran Airways, a
New York Stock exchange company. Prior to that, Mr. Priddy served as President
of Florida Gulf Airlines and Air Midwest, and was one of the three founders of
Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) as well as its chief financial officer. He is
a significant private investor in eB2B Commerce, Inc. Mr. Priddy received a
Bachelor in Arts from Tulane University in 1969, majoring in Economics.


In addition, Thom Waye, Managing Director of Corporate Finance and Business
Development at Commonwealth Associates, has been elected to the Board, replacing
Mark Reichenbaum, who resigned his position. Mr. Waye has primary responsibility
for originating Commonwealth's investment opportunities, private placements, and
public offerings. Mr. Waye previously held various positions with American
International Group's (AIG) Financial Services companies, as well as led
Motorola's and Unisys' New York based Financial Services Marketing efforts. He
holds an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the Graduate School of Business at
the University of Chicago and a BS from Syracuse University.


Commenting on the changes, eB2B's chief executive officer Richard Cohan
remarked, "The addition of Robert and Thom to the Board strengthens our
marketing and revenue focus. eB2B will capitalize on their industry knowledge,
skill, and business relationships to continue to penetrate our market. Robert,
in helping to found and run two major airlines, has a keen sense of the value
that is delivered by streamlining the supply chain and making
business-to-business commerce more cost-effective. Thom has had years of
experience building transaction and services based businesses and generating
revenue growth."


 About eB2B Commerce
eB2B Commerce is a leading provider of electronic business-to-business services
that simplify trading partner integration and collaboration for order management
and supply chain execution. The eB2B Trade Gateway and Outsourcing Services
solutions provide enterprises large and small with low cost, high return methods
for allowing trading partner relationships to be more productive and profitable.






Certain statements contained in this news release which are not based on
historical facts are forward-looking statements, as the term is defined in the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and are subject to
uncertainties and risks that may cause actual results to materially differ from
projections. Although eB2B believes that its expectations are reasonable
assumptions within the bounds of its knowledge of its business operations, there
can be no assurance that actual results will not differ materially from its
expectations. The uncertainties and risks include, among other things, the
Company's plans, beliefs and goals, the Company's limited operating history, the
ability to raise additional capital, if needed, the risks and uncertainties
associated with rapidly changing technologies such as the Internet, the risks of
technology development and the risks of competition that can cause actual
results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. The
Company undertakes no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of
any revision to these forward-looking statements.

Contact:

     Investor Contacts:
     eB2B Commerce, Inc.
     Richard Cohan 212-477-1700 ext. 12


     http://www.eb2b.com