SAN RAMON, CA -- January 16, 2007 -- The Corporation for Manufacturing Excellence (Manex) is pleased to announce that Jonathan Lee joined its Executive Team as Director of Corporate Development.

Lee joins Manex with extensive strategy and process expertise in a variety of senior management and consulting roles with Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies. His experience includes managing a number of large strategic engagements with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Grant Thornton and SAP Consulting.

"Jonathan adds significant bench strength to our team. His depth of consulting experience is wide-ranging, and includes driving strategic business transformation for a number of enterprises. He'll be a key contributor to develop and implement our strategic corporate growth and performance initiatives, in addition to providing strategic advisory to our clients," said Brent Meyers, President and Chief Executive Officer.

As Director of Corporate Development, Lee is responsible for developing and deploying key strategic initiatives for Manex and its clients, with a specific focus on innovative consulting solutions, partnerships, and alliance programs.

He holds an MBA in Strategy and Finance from The Marshall School at the University of Southern California and a BA in Sociology and Political Science from the University of California at Irvine.

About Manex
Founded in 1995, The Corporation for Manufacturing Excellence (Manex) (www.manexconsulting.com) provides a broad array of proven advisory and implementation solutions exclusively to manufacturers, distributors and their supply chains, enabling them to increase growth, productivity, quality and profitability. Manex delivers high-impact solutions in four key areas: strategy, people, process and performance. Meaningful, rapid impact and ROI are achieved through a modular-yet-holistic approach encompassing corporate strategy and planning, marketing strategy, training and development, lean manufacturing, supply chain and logistics, Six Sigma, ISO and performance management systems.