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Performance Team Proudly announces Mike Yerkes as new Vice President of Operations, Performance Team Northeast

Los Angeles, CA, Aug 20, 2010 – Performance Team (PT), a leading provider of supply chain logistics, announces the addition of Mike Yerkes as Vice President of Operations, PT Northeast.

About Mike Yerkes, VP of Operations, Performance Team Northeast:
Mr. Yerkes is backed by an impressive 12-year career at Jones Apparel Group, earning titles of Director of Engineering, VP Business Solutions Group, VP Customer Service, and VP Operations support. While at Jones Apparel Group, Mr. Yerkes led ground-up startups of warehouses across North America, including structural design, facility design, process design, staffing, and training. Yerkes also implemented high speed cross belt and tilt tray sortation utilized in both apparel and footwear distribution. He led IT projects ranging from WMS customization and installation to ERP design and implementation, and also worked closely with senior management on all acquisition integration activities to ensure smooth business transitions.

The veteran also spent two years as Senior Vice President of Operations at The Moret Group. While there, he worked with Customs to set up a First Sale import process, which resulted in significant duty savings. At Moret, he also established new partnership with international logistics companies to better manage freight from factory to point of origin through the use of software and EDI protocols. Mr. Yerkes also made operational changes from factories in China to local distribution in order to increase shipping accuracy to key accounts such as Kohl’s. Through his efforts, Moret’s average performance grade significantly improved in one year.

Mr. Yerkes holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from the Pennsylvania State University.

Comments about Performance Team:

“I feel the number one asset a company can possess is its people and this is what drew me to PT,” says Yerkes, “From the top down they have an excellent approach to business as well as the ability to create an environment for their clients that is very flexible and innovative to not just move product, but add value. In addition to good people, they are also well positioned geographically, have an excellent Finance and IT staff and understand what it takes to succeed. I am extremely excited to join the very talented team at PT and I look forward to supporting and contributing to the East Coast growth strategy.”

About Performance Team:

Performance Team (PT) has been an industry leading, privately held Third Party Logistics (3PL) company for over twenty years, with experience in warehousing, distribution, consolidation, and transportation. PT has eight domestic hubs strategically located near major ports, interstate highways, and intermodal rail lines, and over three million square feet of distribution and transportation space located in Los Angeles, New Jersey, Seattle, Dallas/Fort Worth, Charleston and Miami.

PT offers a full suite of services including full service Pick and Pack, Distribution, Facility Management, Garment on Hanger, Value Added Services, Kitting, Transportation, Drayage, full EDI/ Interface, Retail Store Deliveries, Deconsolidation and Consolidation Services.
Performance Team has positioned themselves as the “green leader” in the supply chain logistics industry through their multiple green initiatives. PT is committed to being an environmentally responsible organization and has taken initiatives to enhance environmental causes. For more information of Performance Team’s initiatives, please visit www.ptgt.net.

Further Information:

For more information on Performance Team, please visit www.ptgt.net.
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MEDIA ALERT: According to the Cover of Sunday’s LA Times , Mind Reading is on the Market

NeuroSky Establishes itself as the Leader in Consumer Brain Computer Interface Technology

NeuroSky Mindset Mindflex Game, powered by NeuroSky NeuroSky’s CEO, Stanley Yang, using the Uncle Milton Star Wars Force Trainer

WHAT: According to the cover of August 8th’sLA Times, The NeuroSky ThinkGear™ technology, first of its kind to be applied to the mass market, has propelled NeuroSky as the leader in consumer BCI. With industry leading partners like Mattel, Square Enix (Final Fantasy), Uncle Milton, Sega Toys Co, Toshiba and a number of others, NeuroSky is leading the charge with the introduction of BCI to the general public with the first of many toys and products.

Link to the full story:http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mind-reader-20100808,0,6235181,full.story

WHY:
According to Reporter Shan Li, “The Company’s breakthrough was in harnessing the brain-wave technology found in EEG machines costing $20,000 and up into headsets that consumers could afford.”

The revolutionary NeuroSky chip is used on NeuroSky’s own MindSet headset and in products by partners Mattel (MindFlex) and Uncle Milton (Star Wars Force Trainer.)
The MindSet uses the advanced NeuroSky chip and one dry sensor to sense and interpret the wearer’s brainwaves. The information is sent by Bluetooth technology to a computer. The computer uses the brainwave information to determine the level of attention and meditation. For games like the MindSet video game and the MindFlex and Star Wars Force Trainer physical games, the user’s level of attention is transformed into action.

“Next year, Iceland-based game developer MindGames will roll out Tug of Mind, the Apple App Store’s first mind-controlled game, which also works with a NeuroSky headset.”

Beyond toys and games, a number of universities have been using the NeuroSky Mindset in their research. “Up until this point, conducting this type of research was cost prohibitive to almost every university except those with substantial resources,” states Assistant Professor Richard Van Eck at the University of North Dakota.  Dr. Stuart Johnstone Assistant Professor at the University of Wollongong has been developing a software system, which helps children with ADHD “The game is designed to strengthen specific psychological abilities that will help them in the classroom.”

According to the article, “We will see more and more products in the future that have this technology, whether for entertainment or healthcare or safety,” said Lee Ting, a managing partner at WR Hambrecht, one of the venture capital firms that backed NeuroSky. “This isn’t limited to very narrow applications or markets — even we can’t foresee all the possible applications.”

To learn more about NeuroSky and their technology, please go tohttp://www.neurosky.com.

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