Lee K. Barba

LEE K. BARBA was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Director of
INVESTools Inc. in December 2001 and Chairman in June 2002, after having
served as Chief Executive Officer of Telescan, Inc., a leading investor
analytics and software company. Prior to joining Telescan in February
2000, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Open Link Financial, a risk
management software company. Mr. Barba joined Open Link after serving as
President of Coral Energy, a Shell Oil joint venture. Mr. Barba joined
Coral Energy after 22 years on Wall Street where he was responsible for
managing global trading businesses for Bankers Trust Company. While
based in London, he was responsible for managing Bankers Trust’s
European offices as well as the Global Risk Management Advisory
practice, which had offices in Asia and Latin America. Upon returning to
New York in 1995, Mr. Barba was the senior executive of Bankers Trust
responsible for managing the consolidation of the firm’s technology and
operations functions for the global capital markets businesses, which
included more than 2,100 in staff operating throughout Asia, Europe and
North America. Earlier in his career, Mr. Barba served as a co-head of
the Fixed Income Division at PaineWebber and as a Vice President of
Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. He earned his MBA from Columbia University
and his BA from the University of North Carolina.