James Lee Witt Named Senior Advisor at Zimek Technologies, Industry Leader in Infection Control and Biohazard Remediation

TAMPA, FL–(Marketwire – August 16, 2010) –  Zimek Technologies (www.zimek.com) is pleased to announce today the addition of James Lee Witt, Chief Executive Officer of Witt Associates, as Senior Advisor at Zimek, the industry leader in infection control and biohazard remediation systems. Witt was Cabinet-level Director of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) during the Clinton Administration.

As a Senior Advisor to Zimek Technologies, Witt will work closely with Advisory Board members including former Illinois State Senate President Emil Jones Jr.; Dr. Brad Spellberg, infectious disease specialist at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; Dr. Peder Bo Nielsen, consultant in Microbiology with the United Kingdom’s North West London NHS Trust; and Dr. Lindsey Shaw, Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology at the University of South Florida.

“Zimek Technologies is thrilled to have James Lee Witt join our team,” stated Kurt Grosman, CEO of Zimek. “Having Mr. Witt onboard is a testament to the effectiveness of our products and the need for stronger decontamination protocols. He will provide unprecedented leadership in the growth of our company.” Zimek’s sophisticated three-dimensional touch-less decontamination technology is being implemented in many facilities nationwide to effectively prevent the spread of deadly viruses and bacteria.

Witt’s firm recently joined the support and recovery operations of Gulf Coast communities in the wake of the oil and gas spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Witt currently serves as a Special Advisor to the State of Louisiana, assisting with the nation’s largest long-term recovery effort in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.Witt Associates, a public safety and crisis management consulting firm based in Washington D.C., focuses on disaster recovery and mitigation management services to state and local governments, educational institutions, the international community and corporations.

“There must be a stronger focus on prevention of infection, not just remediation after the infection occurs,” Witt added. “Decontamination can play a larger role in our efforts to combat deadly viral and bacterial infections, and is giving us a powerful new tool in the arsenal to fight biohazard attacks.”

Zimek Technologies, based in Tampa, Florida, has been developing and marketing its patented automatic Micro-Mist^® decontamination technologies for more than five years. Zimek’s industry-leading technologies are used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, fire and EMS departments, healthcare facilities, public health agencies, transit systems, correctional facilities, and local law enforcement agencies across America.