Exhibit 99.1

STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, Richard Leeds, Chief Executive Officer of Systemax Inc., state and attest that:

(1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon review of the covered reports of Systemax Inc., and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

• no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and

• no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

(2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit committee.

(3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before the date of this statement is a “covered report”:

• Annual Report in Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 of Systemax Inc.

• all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of Systemax Inc. filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

• any amendments to any of the foregoing.

/s/ Richard Leeds      
Richard Leeds
August 14, 2002 Subscribed and sworn to
before me this 14th day of
August, 2002

/s/ Donna Gehnrich
Notary Public

My Commission Expires: June 11, 2003