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MORGAN SAMUELS COMPANY PLACES KEY EXECUTIVES AT LEADING COMPANIES
 
LOS ANGELES, June 05, 2006 - Morgan Samuels Company, a leading national management consulting firm specializing in executive recruitment, today announced executive placements at prominent companies E&J Gallo Winery, Sigue Corporation, IHOP Corporation, Colgate-Palmolive, and RealNetworks.
 
E&J Gallo Winery appointed Jennifer S. Cox as the Senior Director, Financial Planning and Reporting. Prior to joining E&J Gallo Winery, Ms. Cox was Vice President, Finance and Information Technology with Esterline Technologies. Ms. Cox received her MBA from Pepperdine University, and her BS in Accounting from the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. E&J Gallo Winery is the world's leading producer of wine and brandy. With over five hundred product offerings, the company holds the leading market share position in the United States.
 
Sigue Corporation has appointed Elias Mercado as the Chief Sales Agent Management Officer. Prior to Sigue, Mr. Mercado was Vice President, Private Client Services with Wells Fargo, Director of Business Development with Ernst & Young, and began his career as an executive in Mexico City with Thomas Cook MasterCard. Mr. Mercado received his MBA from Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección, and his BS in Economics and Business from the Universidad de las Americas in Mexico City, Mexico. Sigue Corporation is the leading remitter of money transfers from the U.S. to Mexico, providing electronic money transfer services through a network of thousands of dedicated Agents in the 48 U.S. states.
 
IHOP Corporation has also appointed Don J. Pickering as Director of Tax. Prior to joining IHOP Corporation, Mr. Pickering was a Tax Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Pickering holds a CPA, and received an MBT from University of Southern California, and a BS in Business Administration from California State University in Northridge, California. IHOP Corporation and its subsidiaries develop, operate and franchise IHOP restaurants, one of America's best-known, family restaurant chains.
 
Colgate-Palmolive has appointed Melissa A. Shields as Manager and Global Spend Category Leader. Ms. Shields formerly served as a Senior Procurement Manager with the Clorox Company. Ms. Shields holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Colgate-Palmolive, a global leader in consumer packaged goods, operates in over 200 world markets, and approximately 70 percent of its sales come from international operations.
 
RealNetworks has appointed Harold Zeitz as the Senior Vice President, Video. Formerly, Mr. Zeitz was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer for Sharebuilder, Corporation. Mr. Zeitz received his MBA from Stanford University and has a BS in Economics from Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois. RealNetworks is a leading global provider of network-delivered digital media services and the technology that enables digital media creation, distribution and consumption.
 
ABOUT MORGAN SAMUELS COMPANY
 
The Morgan Samuels Company is a leading national management consulting firm specializing in executive recruitment. Since 1969, the firm has developed a stellar reputation for building long-standing client relationships and for successfully recruiting exceptional quality candidates. Morgan Samuels applies revolutionary business process techniques, based on Lean Sigma principles that have shifted the paradigm in executive search to an unprecedented level of quality. These process controls and improvements ensure Morgan Samuels presents its clients, including Washington Mutual, Fluor, Kaiser Permanente, RealNetworks, Fannie Mae and many other Fortune 500 companies, with the highest quality candidates faster and more cost-effectively than its competitors.
 
 
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