PRESS RELEASE OF VISUALANT, INC. DATED APRIL 20, 2006
Published on April 26, 2006
PRESS
RELEASE For
More Information
Contact:
For
Immediate Release
Jerry
Goldberg, CFO
Visualant,
Inc.
500 Union
Street, Suite 406 Seattle, WA 98101
Telephone: 206.903.1351
www.visualant.net
Visualant,
Inc. Elects Dr. Masahiro Kawahata, Jon Pepper and Robert Dougherty to Board
of
Directors
Seattle,
WA., April 20, 2006/PRNewswire-Visualant, Inc. (OTC BB: VSUL),
a
color
technology company (“VSUL”) that provides multi-dimensional spectral-based
pattern file creation security solutions, today
announced the
election of Dr. Masahiro Kawahata, Jon Pepper and Bob Dougherty to its board
of
directors.
Ralph
Brier, President and CEO of Visualant, Inc. announced today the election of
Dr.
Masahiro Kawahata, Jon Pepper and Bob Dougherty to the Company’s Board of
Directors. Brier said, “We are honored to have Dr. Kawahata as both the
Company’s Scientific Advisor and a member of the Board. Jon Pepper and Robert
Dougherty bring years of experience in the technology business and
the
development and manufacturing of medical diagnostic tools. We look forward
to
the active participation of these three talented and experienced
individuals.”
Dr.
Masahiro Kawahata is
the
former Director of the Fujitsu Research Institute. Dr. Kawahata has taught
at
Tokai University, is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University, Provost’s
Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California and Visiting
Professor at the University of Washington. He is
known
in
Japan as “the father of multimedia” for his work as National Program Director in
developing the nationwide fiber optic network. Early
in
2005, the U.S. government officially acknowledged him as “Non-U.S. Scientist of
Extraordinary Ability.” He has served as a Director of numerous technology
companies, and has received several prestigious awards in the United States
and
Japan.
Jon
Pepper
is the
co-founder of Pepcom [www.pepcom.com], an
industry
leader in producing press-only technology showcase events around the country.
Prior
to
that, Pepper started
the DigitalFocus newsletter, a ground-breaking newsletter on digital imaging
that was distributed to industry leaders and opinion makers worldwide. Mr.
Pepper has been closely involved with the high technology revolution since
the
beginning of the personal computer era. He was a well-regarded former journalist
and columnist, and his work on technology subjects appeared in The
New York Times, Fortune, PC Magazine, Men’s Journal, Working Woman, PC Week,
Popular Science,
and
many other well known publications. Mr. Pepper was educated at Union College
in
Schenectady, New York and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Robert
Dougherty, an
experienced executive with over 25 years of experience in the Medical industry,
is currently an independent consultant in the human resources business. During
his career, Mr. Dougherty has been President of Coopervision, Cilco Division,
a
producer of specialty medical products serving the vision care and women’s
healthcare markets; President and CEO of Pharmacia US, Inc., a manufacturer
of
diagnostic
tools for accurate diagnosis of common childhood respiratory diseases; and
Vice
President for Advocacy for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the largest
national membership association of ophthalmologists. Mr. Dougherty holds a
B.A. from the University of Minnesota.
About
Visualant, Inc.
Visualant,
Inc. (VSUL) has
a color technology (patent pending) providing multi-dimensional spectral-based
pattern file creation and matching. Color pattern files can be created from
any
digital photograph or scan, without having to reprint, recreate, recall, or
modify existing digital source documents. Those pattern files may then be
matched against existing databases to detect identity crime, forgery,
counterfeiting, and other frauds. Visualant’s technology is intended to provide
a new and rapid detection tool for a range of critical applications, including
national security, forgery/fraud prevention, brand protection, and
product-tampering protection.
Our common stock is listed on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board under the
symbol "VSUL". Contact: Jerry Goldberg, Chief Financial Officer,
Visualant, Inc., 500 Union
Street, Suite 406, Seattle, WA 98101;
Tel: 206.903.1351;
Fax: 206.903.1352
www.visualant.net
The
statements made by Visualant, Inc. in this press release may be forward-looking
in nature and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements
describe the Company’s future plans, projections, strategies and expectations,
and may be identified by words such as "expects”, "anticipates”, "intends”,
"plans”," "believes”, "seeks”, "estimates" or words of similar meaning.
These forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and involve a number
of risks, uncertainties, situations and other factors that may cause our actual
results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially
different from any future results, level of activity, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by these statements. These factors
include changes in interest rates, market competition, changes in the local
and
national economies, and various other factors detailed from time to time in
Visualant, Inc. SEC reports and filings, including our Annual Report on Form
10-KSB, filed on February 9th, 2006, and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form
10-QSB and Current Report on Form 8-K. The Company undertakes no
obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new
information, events or circumstances after the date hereof to reflect the
occurrence of unanticipated events.
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