Ascend Marketing Adds Douglas Ritter To Its Growing Team

Grapevine, TX - July 1, 2007 - Ascend Marketing announced today that Douglas Ritter has joined the company as a Partner, effective immediately.

Mr. Ritter joins Ascend from Perlos, Inc., a leading global manufacturer of plastics, where he headed up Sales and Marketing for the Americas. Prior to Perlos, Mr. Ritter spent the majority of his career in telecommunications with AT&T, and his early career with several top 10 advertising agencies in New York in account management.

At AT&T, Mr. Ritter led the company’s marketing communications efforts for one of their largest and most successful customer acquisition campaigns, “We Want You Back”, with a theme so pervasive it was immortalized in a New Yorker cartoon.

“I worked with Douglas back in our GTE/Verizon days, as did a number of our Ascend Partners. We are pleased to be working with him again as he brings a ‘Big Picture/Idea’ sensibility to Ascend Marketing. We have continued our fast track growth and Douglas will be a valuable asset,” said Ascend Marketing co-founder and Managing Partner Rich Herbst.

About Ascend Marketing

Since its launch in 2004, Ascend has grown to a staff of over 25 professionals, with offices in Ft. Worth and Grapevine, Texas as well as Orlando, Florida. The company has over 30 active clients ranging in size from entrepreneurial start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, spanning a wide range of industries including telecommunications, manufacturing and hospitality.

Ascend Marketing’s unique business model delivers results-focused marketing and sales support and internal employee communications programs via a comprehensive suite of marketing services designed to support clients internal marketing, sales and human resources. The Ascend team brings expertise from telecom, technology, travel and hospitality, B2B services, consumer packaged goods, retail, restaurant and health care. For more information contact Ascend Marketing, 1450 Hughes Rd., Ste 106, Grapevine, TX 76051-7356; Phone 817 416-3800. Orlando Office: 407 965-2100. Or visit the company’s website at www.ascend-marketing.com.

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