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Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest Adds Life Science Experts to
Coaching Team

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 13 -- The Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest
(GLEQ) announces the addition of two Life Science experts to its
coaching team. Dr. Rochelle Hanley and Marianne Andreach are joining
a team of 30 GLEQ business coaches to strengthen its Life Sciences
coaching competencies. Entrepreneurs competing in the GLEQ business
plan competition can receive tremendously valuable coaching from
industry experts. Teams are matched with coaches depending on their
specific industry and needs as a business start-up.


"The Fall Cycle has been extremely robust, with a particularly
strong level of Life Science start-ups," said Art DeMonte, GLEQ
Executive Director. "We are delighted to have the caliber of talent
Rochelle and Marianne bring to the coaching team to assist Life
Science teams with their business plans and commercialization
efforts."

Dr. Hanley is coaching Fall Cycle teams NeuRxus Inc. and Media
Balance, Inc., while Ms. Andreach will work with ThreeFold Sensors,
Inc. and Tiresias Medical. Over 50 teams are now competing in the
Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest Business Plan competition. Winners
will be announced on February 7th, 2006.

About our Coaches:

1. Dr. Rochelle Hanley has held a variety of senior executive
positions at Pfizer, Parke-Davis and Glaxo Wellcome. She brings
broad expertise in drug development and a strong track record in
clinical development with emphasis on metabolic and cardiovascular
therapeutics. Additionally, Rochelle was assistant professor at The
University of Texas Health Science Center and at Duke University
Medical Center. She earned her M.D. degree at the University of
Michigan after completion of her B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology
at Smith College.

2. Marianne Andreach has been in the pharmaceutical industry for 22
years, working in a variety of positions at big pharma companies
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Parke-Davis, biotech firms -- Esperion
Therapeutics -- and currently at Esperion Therapeutics, Division of
Pfizer Global Research and Development. During her career, Marianne
has mastered a wide spectrum of disciplines including Discovery,
Sales, Marketing, Medical Education, Product Planning and Medical
Affairs.

About the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest (GLEQ)

The GLEQ is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational program designed to
accelerate the formation of high-growth companies across Michigan.
Anyone who lives, works or attends school in Michigan can
participate in the competitions and educational programs at no cost.

The GLEQ sponsors a statewide business plan competition. The Quest
is structured into two distinct maturity "paths": companies with
more developed businesses compete in the Emerging Company (EC) path
while teams with new or less developed business ideas compete in the
New Business Ideas (NBI) path.

The EC teams must complete and submit an 8 to 12 page business plan,
while the NBI teams must develop and submit a five-page executive
summary describing their business or business idea. The GLEQ
provides the help of coaches and educational programs to assist all
entrepreneurs with their business plans. A cash award is given to
the winner of the EC path in the spring, while additional cash and
in-kind awards are provided to the EC and NBI winners.

The GLEQ's primary sponsors are the Ann and Carman Adams Fund of the
Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan, Wayne State
University, Apjohn Group, Southwest Michigan First, and Esperance
BioVentures. Founded in 2000, the GLEQ has awarded $600,000 in prize
money during the first four years of its annual business plan
competition and provided over a thousand hours of free training and
coaching. Additional information is available at http://www.gleq.org
or by calling Art DeMonte, Executive Director, at 734-913-0090.

To register for training classes, learn more about the competition's
eligibility requirements or register for the Fall Cycle please visit
http://www.gleq.org .

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