WAYLAND, Mass., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Tourtellotte Solutions, a global leader in custom and packaged supply-chain software for the pharmaceutical, retail, and consumer goods markets, today named David Diamond its new Chief Operating Officer. Diamond, an executive adept at fortifying business practice in companies at the technological frontier, will head day-to-day operations and systems improvements at a time of record expansion for Tourtellotte.

Diamond brings to Tourtellotte Solutions broad experience in leading-edge technology and best practices in customer service. Fresh from Amperion where he was COO and co-founder, Diamond was also formerly Managing Director at Redleaf Group, an early-stage venture capital firm, General Manager of Corporate Technology Planning at Verizon, and General Manager of Emerging Business Operations at BBN.

"David is a consummate professional," said Edward Tourtellotte, CEO of Tourtellotte Solutions. "His experience -- including his venture capital background -- gives him a vital depth of expertise. He brings a caliber of management rare in the tech vanguard. David will be invaluable to Tourtellotte Solutions."

At Tourtellotte, where sales of flagship products RockBlocks and tcVisualize are soaring, Diamond intends to design business processes that will withstand -- and enhance -- the company's rapid growth. "Solidifying the business principles at Tourtellotte's foundation will leverage the company's considerable entrepreneurial power," said Diamond. "It will ready Tourtellotte to handle any rate of expansion, while keeping the focus precisely where it belongs -- on customer service and customer satisfaction."

Featured on past covers of both Fortune and Mass High Tech Magazines, Diamond has won numerous honors and awards. He has been the executive speaker for the MIT Seminar on Leadership and Change, moderator and lead speaker at the Massachusetts Telecom Council Telecom for the Non-Technologist Conference, and opening speaker at MIT's CEO Seminar on the Management of Technology. Diamond received a Commendation and Award from the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- he held senior positions for 16 years in the Department of Defense -- and won both the Young AFCEAN of the Year Award, and CECOM Technical Employee of Year Award.

Diamond, whose passions include auto racing and skiing, has served on a number of boards, including the Board of Directors at Amperion, Inc. and the Mass High Tech Charity Foundation, and the Boards of Advisors of Avian Networks, iDrive, and EKMS. He holds an MBA from the Sloan School of MIT and has engineering degrees in both electronic and mechanical disciplines. He retains deep, ongoing connections to his alma mater; among other things, he is a Venture Advisor to several emerging companies with ties to MIT.

About Tourtellotte Solutions

Tourtellotte Solutions is a global leader in custom and packaged supply- chain software for the pharmaceutical, retail, and consumer goods markets. Tourtellotte Solutions' RockBlocks(R) product -- the most widely-adopted sourcing software on the planet for retail, consumer goods, branded apparel, and footwear manufacturers - processes billions of dollars of transactions each year in over 50 countries. RockBlocks users include Staples, Target, Radio Shack, JC Penney, The Home Depot, Saks, Federated Department Stores, Lenox, Timberland, Payless, Stride Rite, and Sara Lee. Tourtellotte Solutions' tcVisualize, a groundbreaking clinical-supply-chain modeling and forecasting application for the pharmaceutical industry, is used by several of the largest pharmaceuticals. Tourtellotte Solutions is a privately-held company headquartered in Wayland, Massachusetts. For more information on Tourtellotte Solutions, please call Gary Hynes at (866) 653-2770 x110 or visit http://www.tourtellottesolutions.com/.

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