RedTail Solutions Appoints Bob Gleason as New CEO

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bWESTBOROUGH, Mass., – September 2, 2008/b

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a href="http://www.redtailsolutions.com/"RedTail Solutions, Inc./a

, a provider of managed

a href="http://www.redtailsolutions.com/site/content/prod_serv/rt_transaction_manager.asp"Electronic Data Interchange/a

(EDI) and

a href="http://www.redtailsolutions.com/site/content/prod_serv/data_solutions.asp"Global Data Synchronization/a

(GDS) services for mid-market suppliers in the retail supply chain, today announced that Bob Gleason has been named the company's new president and CEO.

pAccording to Gleason, "I'm very excited to be in logistics services where I started my tech career over 20 years ago. Our unique Software-as-a-Service infrastructure enables us to provide EDI managed services to mid-market suppliers, reducing cost and complexity, and enabling them to focus on their core business. We make a real difference for our customers enabling them to service retailers like Wal-Mart and The Home Depot just as effectively as their Fortune 100 competitors."/p

pGleason assumes the reigns from Patricia Meisner, who co-founded the company in 2001. Since its inception, she led the company to achieve steady annual growth, as well as profitability in recent quarters./p

pGleason, who most recently was the founder and CEO of Riverton Software and Riverton LLC – a software tools company and Internet professional services firm, respectively – has held a variety of management positions in entrepreneurial high tech businesses offering logistics, software development tools, high-performance networked-based business applications and supply-chain integration solutions./p

pPrior to founding Riverton, Gleason was vice president of sales and marketing at Easel Corporation. Before that, he led the design of one of the first warehouse management systems at Distribution Management Systems, which was subsequently acquired by Cullinet. At Cullinet, Gleason was a regional sales manager. Earlier, he was a consultant for International Data Corporation./p

pGleason holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Brown University and a master's degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School./p

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p class="style8" style="margin-top:0;"RedTail Solutions, Inc. is a privately held company, located in Westborough, MA. It enables mid-market suppliers to compete at the highest level in today's supply chain by providing a managed services platform for b2b collaboration. This advanced platform integrates seamlessly with middle-market ERP systems from Microsoft, Sage and AccountMate. Through RedTail's managed services platform, suppliers can connect and trade with their key customers, as well as third-party logistics providers in warehousing and transportation. There are more than 500,000 suppliers that participate in the global supply chain today that can gain immediate benefits by using RedTail's fully integrated and automated electronic collaboration, helping them to eliminate transaction errors, reduce penalties for non-compliance and ultimately to streamline business processes. For more information, visit www.redtailsolutions.com.br/

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