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Sky-Trax Appoints Dr. Charles W. Robertson to Sky-Trax Board of Directors

Monday, February 1, 2010

Sky-Trax Inc. (Sky-Trax) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Charles W. Robertson to the Sky-Trax Board of directors. As a Sky-Trax board member, Dr. Robertson brings extensive experience in developing quality, efficiently manufactured products. It is Dr. Robertson’s hope that his expertise in this field will help to expand the market for Sky-Trax solution offerings.

“Sky-Trax has an impressive product portfolio and a real opportunity to have a positive impact in the logistics industry,” said Dr. Robertson. “It is my hope to help significantly with product development and participate in the evolution of Sky-Trax products. At my last company, our products achieved ‘mainstream status’ within the biology and molecular biology laboratory markets; I believe Sky-Trax has the potential to achieve the same status in the logistics industry.”

Dr. Robertson brings more than 30 years experience developing novel high technology products. During his 29 years with DuPont R&D he led the engineering effort to develop several laboratory instrumentation products including one of the first automated DNA sequencers. He was the founder of NanoDrop Technologies, now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific and chief architect of all of their products which revolutionized how UV/Vis spectrophotometric and spectrofluorometric measurements are made in the biotech laboratory.

“We are thrilled to have Dr. Charles Robertson as a member of the Sky-Trax Board of Directors,” said, Bill Conley, Sky-Trax Chairman and CEO. “The expertise and knowledge Dr. Robertson brings to Sky-Trax will help us to design and manufacture our products better for the future. We greatly value the insight he will bring to the development side of Sky-Trax.”

Dr. Robertson holds a BS in physics from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and a PhD from Florida State University in physics. He did post graduate study at Kansas State University before joining DuPont’s Engineering R&D program. He and his wife Patricia are strong supporters of science education and he currently serves on the board of Rhodes College and the Tri State Bird Rescue and Research board.

About Sky-Trax Inc.
Sky-Trax is the inventor and leading provider of Optical Real-Time Location Systems for tracking goods, vehicles and guiding autonomous vehicles in any size facility. Sky-Trax revolutionary location tracking and automatic data collection systems are designed for indoor industrial vehicles; primarily in warehouses. Applications employing Sky-Trax Optical RTLS are economical and practical to deploy, allowing warehouse professionals to substantially increase safety and improve warehouse efficiency. The results are fewer safety incidents, much lower operating costs, improved inventory accuracy, and greater throughput. For more information, please visit www.Sky-Trax.com.

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