PRESS RELEASE: Enterra Solutions Hires Chief Operating Officer

Enterra sent this out yesterday:

RESTON, Va. (January 28, 2008) - Enterra Solutions announced today that Kevin Ruelas has joined the company as its new Chief Operating Officer, bringing with him over two decades of management experience. As Enterra Solutions' Chief Operating Officer, he will be responsible for day-to-day operations as well as helping the company with strategic planning, operations and growth management. Mr. Ruelas began his new role on January 7th.

Mr. Ruelas has significant experience in areas directly related to several of Enterra Solutions' product lines including port and harbor administration and trusted supply chain operations. Additionally, his experience working in the Middle East will be applied to Enterra Solutions' work with the Pentagon's Business Transformation Agency (BTA), and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Enterra Solutions has recently announced a series of projects in Iraq aimed at stimulating and structuring economic development. Those projects include providing Business-to-Business(B2B)/Business-to-Consumer (B2C) Trading Exchange services and Call Center services under contracts released by the BTA's Task Force to Improve Business and Stability Operations in Iraq as well as foreign direct investment and joint venture services to the KRG through a multi-year contract to create and operate the Kurdistan Business
Center. Mr. Ruelas will also play a key role in working with strategic partners such as the International Resources Group (IRG), Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and Agility.

Mr. Ruelas joins Enterra Solutions having served as Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for Agility, Defense & Government Services, where he was responsible for the overall market strategy and growth for the company worldwide. Beginning with a small team and a few million dollars in revenue he helped develop Agility Defense & Government Services into a global defense logistics provider with revenue in excess of five billion dollars - making Agility the largest service provider for the Defense Logistics Agency.

"Kevin is a proven leader with a track record of successfully building and operating high growth companies in a dynamically changing business environment. He has a great network in the United States and the Middle East that will assist Enterra Solutions in meeting our rapid growth requirements," said Stephen DeAngelis, Enterra Solutions' president and chief executive officer. "We are excited to welcome him to our team."

Prior to joining Agility, Mr. Ruelas enjoyed a 10 year career with the ocean carrier APL, where he held various logistics and operational positions including marine operations director and logistics manager for North America. Following a successful operational career, Mr. Ruelas transitioned to sales where he was responsible for APL's U.S. Government Cargoes in the Middle East. While with APL, he interacted daily with the U.S. Surface Deployment Distribution Command (SDDC), which is responsible for the movement of all military cargoes worldwide, and helped it overcome the "Kuwait port meltdown of 2003." Before joining APL, he served five years in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer. Of note was a tour in the Office of Defense Cooperation at the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica.

"I'm excited to join the dynamic Enterra Solutions team," said Mr. Ruelas. "The company is experiencing tremendous growth while simultaneously carving out a new niche in the business world. Having spent a good deal of time in Middle East, I'm eager to help Enterra Solutions improve business conditions there through its Business-to-Business Trading Exchange, multi-lingual Call Center and Kurdistan Business Center."

Tom writes:

All I can say is, what a huge relief!

Enterra needed a clear COO to man the company's new center of gravity HQ in Reston as our biz load skyrockets and Steve gets sucked into even more overseas Development-in-a-Box‚Ñ¢ opportunities.

We'll announce another big hire shortly--also a huge catch.

Kevin's so key for us because he's managed skyrocketing growth before, so he knows exactly what we're going through and how to deal with it.