HAYWARD, CA - August 24, 2006 - Team Manex wins the AeA 11th Annual High-Tech Golf Open

Over 120 high-tech industry leaders participated in the AeA Silicon Valley/Northern California Council's 11th Annual High-Tech Open at Harding Park, home to the World Golf Championships - American Express Championship 2005. The tournament is the largest Bay Area networking event of the year, bringing executives from high-tech companies throughout California together to compete in this annual event. Participating companies included Jupiter Networks, Intuit, Lucent, Varian Medical Systems, CIBC, and Merrill Lynch.

The winning Manex foursome:

• Brent Meyers, President and CEO of Manex
• Michael Honeycutt, CFO and COO of Manex
• Paul Witkay, Founder and CEO of Alliance of Chief Executives
• George Lotti, CFO of Heat and Controls

AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association) is a nationwide non-profit trade association that represents all segments of the technology industry.

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.