For Immediate Release

ASQ Names Senior Sales Manager

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 31, 2007—The American Society for Quality (ASQ) has appointed Steve Gage as senior manager of sales. In this role, Gage will concentrate on sales management leadership, implementation of appropriate sales models & processes and the development of a corporate sales system. Gage will serve as the manager of a seven person sales team.

“I look forward to advancing the global expansion and use of quality tools and practices as well as growing the enterprise to ensure its position as a viable and robust membership organization,” Gage said. “It is through ASQ’s innovative products and services that quality will become a widespread term to signify excellence.”

Gage has a solid 25 year track record of growing sales revenues most recently as sales director for RB Royal Industries, Fond du Lac, Wis. Prior sales and marketing leadership roles included Arnold & O’Sheridan Consulting, Brookfield, Wis., and Wisconsin Energy Corporation, Milwaukee, Wis.

“We are extremely fortunate to have Steve join us,” said Paul Borawski, executive director and chief strategic officer of ASQ. “He is a talented and well-respected sales and marketing professional, and his background has more than prepared him to assume this role. Steve understands our business and how important quality is to our customers.”

Gage has completed post-graduate work in professional development from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and earned a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Marquette University, Milwaukee.  Gage is also an active member in the Association for Facilities Engineering, and the Marquette College of Engineering Alumni Board, and is the fundraising committee chair for the Franklin Cultural Arts Center.

The American Society for Quality, www.asq.org, has been the world’s leading authority on quality for 60 years.  With more than 93,000 individual and organizational members, the professional association advances learning, quality improvement and knowledge exchange to improve business results, and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide.  As champion of the quality movement, ASQ offers technologies, concepts, tools and training to quality professionals, quality practitioners and everyday consumers, encouraging all to Make Good Great®.  ASQ has been the sole administrator of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award since 1991. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., ASQ is a founding partner of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a prominent quarterly economic indicator, and also produces the Quarterly Quality Report.