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Technology Marketing Veteran and Technical Specialist Join Salion's Detroit Automotive Team



    SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Jan. 27 -- Salion, Inc., the leading
provider of revenue acquisition management software for automotive suppliers,
has expanded its Detroit-based marketing and technical staff with the addition
of David Miller, a veteran technology marketer who joins the company as its
Regional Automotive Sales Director, and Alex Bentley who joins Salion as a
Professional Services Consultant.
    Miller brings to Salion more than 20 years of experience in marketing
technology and software to the automotive industry.  He'll focus his efforts
on helping automotive suppliers gain better control of their revenue
acquisition process which is costing suppliers hundreds of millions in lost
revenue and productivity, according to a 2002 study by Altarum's Center for
Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
    Most recently, Miller was a member of Covisint's supplier sales team.
Prior to that, he was sales director with Hyperion Solutions, director of
supplier sales at i2 Technologies, and vice-president of the automotive and
transportation division at Thru-Put Technologies.  He has also held various
sales and sales management positions with QAD, Inc. and the Xerox Corporation.
    Miller is a graduate of Michigan State University where he earned a BA in
Business.
    Bentley has five years of technical delivery, product definition and
customer project management experience with a variety of companies.
    Most recently, Bentley was with S1 Corporation where he was a product
manager responsible for the company's S1 Application Manager (SAM) and
Software Development Kit (SDK) for its CRM financial software product lines.
He also authored the strategy document for SDK.
    Bentley previously worked at Trilogy, Inc. as well as its subsidiary,
pcOrder.com, where he led business process re-engineering and deployed custom
software solutions for multiple Fortune 1000 companies.  He's also worked with
other industry leaders including Electronic Commerce Industries, Inc., HP
China, and Nortel Networks.
    He is a 1997 graduate of Purdue University where he earned a BS in
Chemical Engineering.

    About Salion
    Salion, Inc., with offices in Austin, Texas and Detroit, Michigan, is an
enterprise software company dedicated exclusively to the critical business
needs of suppliers.  Salion helps suppliers sell more, and sell more
profitably.  By optimizing the Revenue Acquisition process, Salion enables
suppliers to target the best business, win more of the time, and deliver
increased customer satisfaction.  Salion's leading process management, data
analysis and collaborative communications technologies come with a commitment
to implementation in less than 60 days, and payback in as few as 90 days.  For
more information, visit http://www.salion.com .