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Dennis Thomas Joins American Business Development Group

Arlington, VA, May 3, 2010

Dennis Thomas has accepted the position as Director of American Business Development Group‟s Defense Automotive (DAO) Division effective immediately. Mr. Thomas brings 30 years of sales and marketing expertise, as well as experience with the manufacturing and testing of high quality, sophisticated military platforms. Mr. Thomas resides in Michigan, where he will lead ABDG’s largest field office in supporting our clients’ business interests at the United States Army’s Tank and Automotive Command (TACOM), the Tank Automotive Research, Engineering, and Development Center (TARDEC), and throughout all of the Department of Defense.

Mr. Thomas has spent the past 20 years in senior leadership positions with several firms servicing the defense, commercial and automotive markets. During that time, he has successfully led sales organizations, established strategic alliances and developed several global partnerships in Japan, China and Europe. Over the past several years, he has worked with customers and prime contractors such as the U.S. Military, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, AM General, Ford and Navistar. His technical experience covers the design, manufacturing and integration of complex solutions for applications such as tactical vehicles, shelters, military trailers, radar systems and large structural products. Mr. Thomas also has experience in component, system and full vehicle testing.

Mr. Thomas received his undergraduate degree from Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio and a Masters Degree from Akron University in Akron, Ohio.

Bill Skipper, ABDG’s President and CEO said “our company has known Denny professionally for the past three years and we are very excited to have him lead our DAO Division. Denny’s professionalism and his experience in both the commercial and defense markets will represent us well, as we continue to support and grow this Division.” ABDG’s Vice President for Military Operations and the former Director of the DAO Division, Michael Hurst said, “Denny is a very strategic hire for our company. His strengths and business experience will be a tremendous value to our current employees as well as our existing clients. Denny will also have the responsibility to continue to add resources and grow this division providing all our clients a larger ‘footprint’ in DOD.”

American Business Development Group, Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia is an internationally respected, full-spectrum business development consulting firm, now representing a diverse list of over fifty prominent U.S. and international businesses. ABDG enjoys a reputation as the largest business development firm in the United States which specializes in the re-equipping and modernization of the Reserve Component.