Percept Technology Labs Hires Mark Tilleman to Serve as Sales Director
Sales Veteran Tilleman to Direct Sales and Customer Service for Leading Test Lab

Boulder, CO, – December 3, 2008 – Percept Technology Labs (www.percept.com), an established, independent product testing and consulting company, today announced that Mark Tilleman has been named as the firm’s sales manager.  Founded in 1996, Percept specializes in testing today’s most sophisticated electronic products and technologies – delivering battery, engineering and design verification, reliability, competitive analysis and global compliance testing and consulting services to leading data storage, ITE (information technology equipment) and consumer electronics firms around the world.

According to Marty Best, Percept’s president, “We are pleased to welcome Mark to the Percept team.  Over the past twelve years, Percept has built a solid reputation of providing advanced product test and consulting services which deliver the accurate, unbiased results that empower our clients to deliver the highest quality, most competitive products to their customers around the world.  Mark’s solid experience and proven accomplishment in selling specialized B2B services for technology companies will serve to strengthen and expand Percept’s success in providing sophisticated testing solutions for today’s most complex technologies.”

Drawing from more than sixteen years experience as a highly accomplished technology sales producer, Mark understands the critical need for value-added independent testing for technical products.  He comments, “Clients rely on Percept to meet their most complex and demanding testing requirements.  Recognizing the unique needs of each customer, our team of test engineers creates and implements a customized test plan using proven methodologies to meet the most exacting testing requirements.  I look forward to further serving our current customers with the exceptional service they’ve come to expect as well as developing new client relationships in strategic technology areas.”

Before joining the Percept team, Mark held a number of key sales management positions for firms providing specialized B2B services for technology companies.  At Longmont, Colorado- based InstruTech Inc, Mark served as sales director for the firm’s contract manufacturing group.  With full responsibility for the group’s sales and marketing organizations, Mark and was instrumental in growing the client base 300% in five years, increasing sales revenue an average of 36% each year, and achieving the company’s distinction of being named the third fastest growing private company in Boulder County in 2004.  Prior to InstruTech, Mark was director of sales at start-up Pelion Systems, based in Boulder, Colorado.  At Pelion Mark was a consistent leader in selling lean-manufacturing software, consulting and education services, developed five key reference accounts, and earned a certification in solutions selling.  Other experience includes leading sales organizations for high tech hardware and software products as well as outsourced manufacturing services.  Mark holds a BS in business finance and a BA in economics from the San Francisco State University.

About Percept Technology Labs

For more than a decade Percept Technology Labs has delivered independent product testing and consulting to leading data storage, ITE and consumer electronics firms. With years of specialized technology testing experience and absolute commitment to customer care, the Percept team manages the entire product testing, improvement and certification process from start to finish. Percept provides everything clients need to launch and deliver their products around the world — on time and within budget. To learn about Percept's full line of testing and consulting services, visit www.percept.com or call 303-444-7480.

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