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Criterium, Inc. Announces New Corporate Management Promotions

(Saratoga Springs, NY, November 1st, 2006) – John M. Hudak, President and Founder of Criterium, Inc., announced today the promotions of Mary T. Stefanzick and Eduardo F. Jahn to the position of Associate Director for Operations. These positions will work in tandem, and maximize both of their experiential profiles and growth within the company to date:

Mary T. Stefanzick will have Operational Responsibility for Data Management and Data Acquisition Workflow. Utilizing her extensive experience working with Interactive Voice Response systems, Ms. Stefanzick will have primary responsibility for Corporate Office Operations including project assessment, related hiring of staff and consultants to assure continued timely completion of all projects. Ms. Stefanzick will also have primary responsibility for review, quality assurance, and compliance for all project processes and related software.

Eduardo F. Jahn will have Operational Responsibility for Project Management and Field Operations. In this capacity, Mr. Jahn will be overseeing the progress of clinical projects that involve Criterium’s branch offices, as well as management of the activities of Criterium’s global network of monitors in the course of multiple clinical studies, and the related activities that occur at investigational sites on several continents.

“Mary and Ed have been tremendous assets to Criterium during our recent international growth, they have brought organization and commitment to their positions,” commented John M. Hudak, President and Founder of Criterium, Inc. in his announcement “I look forward to both of them seizing their expanded responsibilities with the same zeal and zest that has characterized their careers here to date.”