BELLEVUE, Wash., April 8, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sector 10, Inc. (OTCBB:SECT) (Frankfurt:4SR) announced today the appointment of John Gargett to its Board of Directors and that he will also be heading the Operations Committee.
Mr. John B. Gargett is a graduate of Western Washington University, is Vice President for Operations for the National Institute of Urban Search and Rescue, the 2006 winner of the prestigious NIUSR "Press On" Award, is President of Fairhaven International, a Crisis, Emergency and Risk Management Consulting firm, and is President of Encompsol, a software firm specializing in Fire Code Compliance.
Mr. Gargett is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in Crisis Management. He has worked in over forty countries and assisted the United Nations in designing systems for the monitoring of relief supplies in the former Yugoslavia and Somalia. He has provided expert lectures to Japanese private sector companies on the threats facing, and working in, hostile or overseas environments.
Mr. Gargett has also worked with many industrial firms writing, evaluating, and implementing Crisis and Emergency Management plans, including ARCO (now BP), Lockheed Martin, Trans Mountain Pipeline Corporation, and Shell Canada Ltd.
He has designed, conducted, and evaluated over 150 exercises, including Air Crashes, Corporate Office Bombings, Disgruntled Employee, Earthquakes, Hazardous Materials, Pandemic, Chemical Attacks, Nuclear Dirty Bomb, and IED exercises, to name just a few. These exercises have been as small as 5-10 people at a technology campus to over 1,000 local, state, federal, private sector and international for a week long pandemic exercise. Mr. Gargett has served in a consultant's role in the automation components of new Emergency Operations Centers in both in the United States and abroad.
Pericles DeAvila stated that the addition of John Gargett to the Board of Directors is part of the Company's growth strategy and would be looking forward to announcing a few other board positions in the near future.
More information on Mr. John Gargett will be available on the Sector 10 website soon.
About Sector 10, Inc.
Sector 10, Inc. is redefining the emergency response paradigm from centralized equipment staging to onsite pre-deployed resources. Sector 10 is the only emergency response systems company so strongly emphasizing pre-deployed resources as the way to save lives, avert injuries, reduce liability and to "Bridge the Survival Gap". http://www.sector10inc.com
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