Direct Sales Responsibilities in the East Coast Region

South Plainfield, NJ - September, 2008

James V. Russell, President and Thomas N. Bresnan, Sales Manager of R&D Circuits announce the addition of Michael Moore to the Account Management Team. Mike will have direct sales responsibilities in the East Coast region for R&D Circuits, managing accounts and assisting with applications and product integration.

"R&D Circuits is continuing on a growth pattern and the need for additional customer support led us to Mike" states Russell. "As we continue to expand our presence in various regions, it was becoming apparent we needed to be able to support our customer base locally" said Russell. "Mike will play a key role for us in this continuing expansion effort".

Mike will be responsible for the East Coast Region. "We intend to capitalize on Mike’s expertise in the ATE Package Test environment to continue to drive our growth strategies" states Bresnan. "With our new R&D Mother-Daughter ATE products for < 0.5mm package test becoming a sought after solution for more and more ATE customers, Mike was a natural choice for helping to lead this strategy forward in the region", continued Bresnan.

Mike will be based in the Wakefield, MA area, where he lives with his wife and family. His experience comes to R&D by way most recently of Teradyne where he spent the last 8 years developing and growing an ATE hardware design team. Prior to that Mike had been in business for himself for over 8 years as a manufacturer’s representative servicing five major principals in the areas of contract manufacturing, precision machining, precision sheet metal fabrication and metal finishing. Mike is very familiar with R & D’s capabilities as he was instrumental in bringing R & D aboard to Teradyne as one of their suppliers for their PCB fabrication and assembly.