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Thursday, July 01, 2010

MEI Technologies CEO Ed Muñiz Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Award Winner
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HOUSTON – Representatives from MEI Technologies, Inc., a nationwide technology company, today announced that Ed Muñiz, CEO received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Award in the technology category in Houston & Gulf Coast Area.

According to Ernst & Young LLP, the award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses. An independent panel of judges selected Muñiz, who received the award at a gala event at the Omni Hotel Houston June 24, 2010.

“I am honored to receive this award and recognition,” Muñiz said. “This is an achievement I share with my company and our team who work so hard every day merging excellence and innovation for our customers.”

MEI Technologies provides innovative solutions in applied engineering, IT/cyber security, research and development, biotechnology and optics for public and private sectors.

This is the 24th anniversary of The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards. The program honors entrepreneurs who demonstrated exceptionality in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.

As a Houston & Gulf Coast Area award winner, Muñiz is eligible for consideration for the Ernst & Young LLP Entrepreneur Of The Year 2010 national program. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the overall national Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California Nov. 13, 2010. The awards are the culminating event of the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum, the nation’s most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

MEI Technologies, Inc. featured in Biz Journals’ Small Business Center Profiles
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In the June 2010 national edition of the Biz Journal, Ed Muñiz, MEI Technologies CEO, shares the challenges associated with building a new company. In the special section, “From Beginners to Bigshots,” Muñiz discusses the pivotal role programs offered by the Small Business Administration played in growing MEI Technologies into an 800-person company that provides innovative solutions in applied engineering, IT/cyber security, research and development, biotechnology and optics in the public and private sectors. The section features twelve success stories of small businesses. Click here to read the articles on these dozen success stories, including MEI Technologies' CEO, Ed Muñiz.

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Thursday, February 25, 2010

MEI Technologies, Inc. Announces New Corporate and Regional Leaders
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HOUSTON – Ed Muñiz, CEO of nationwide technology company MEI Technologies, Inc., today announced new organizational changes that will position the company for continued growth and increased quality of management. Changes include naming of a new corporate executive and establishment of four regional areas of operation throughout the U.S.

Stephanie Murphy, a 10-year MEI Technologies employee, was promoted to deputy CEO. She will work closely with Muñiz in making executive-level decisions and providing overall company leadership. She previously worked as MEI Technologies’ chief administrative officer.

In addition, MEI Technologies has realigned its federal sector and established four geographic operating regions across the country – eastern, western, south/central and capital. General managers were recently named for each:

• Greg Hoscheit is the general manager-eastern region, overseeing Alabama and Mississippi. Hoscheit joined MEI Technologies in January 2009.

• Jim Ladwig has been named general manager-western region. Based in Colorado Springs, Colo., Ladwig oversees Colorado, New Mexico and California. A four-year employee, he also currently serves as the operations manager for MEI Technologies’ Colorado Springs office.

• Donna Carlton has assumed the role of general manager-south central region, which is headquartered in Houston and includes all of Texas. Carlton has been with MEI Technologies since 1999.

• The fourth region, Capital Region, will continue to be overseen by Kamran Mortezavi in Maryland. Mortezavi will keep his current position as vice president and program manager of the Electrical Systems Engineering Services (ESES) contract, which is based out of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Mortezavi has been an MEI Technologies employee since 2005.

“With our contracts being location-based, this new structure will enable us to better strengthen ongoing contact and relationships with our customers, as well as support our strategic growth plans,” said Vic Walczak, MEI Technologies’ chief operating officer, who will supervise the four regional general managers.

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

MEI Technologies Receives Silver Boeing Performance Excellence Award
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Officials with MEI Technologies, Inc. (MEI Technologies), a nationwide technology company, today announced that the company received a 2009 Boeing Performance Excellence Award from The Boeing Company. The annual program recognizes Boeing suppliers who have demonstrated superior performance throughout the year.

“MEI Technologies is proud to receive this award for the second year in a row,” said MEI Technologies CEO Ed Muñiz. “This award reinforces our commitment to continually work according to our quality policy and focus on exceeding our customer’s expectations.”

This year, Boeing recognized 486 suppliers with gold- and silver-level Boeing Performance Excellence Awards. MEI Technologies is among 35 suppliers to receive the silver level of recognition for work performed from Oct. 1, 2008, to Sept. 30, 2009.

MEI Technologies supplies engineering and technical support services to Boeing for the International Space Station, Space Shuttle orbiter and Space Shuttle payloads.

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Friday, January 15, 2010

Ad Astra Rocket Company and MEI Technologies, Inc. form Strategic Alliance
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Ad Astra Rocket Company, a world leader in plasma rockets and MEI Technologies, Inc., a nationwide aerospace, defense and technology company, have joined forces creating a strategic alliance in support of Ad Astra’s Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR®) rocket development. The alliance combines Ad Astra’s expertise in plasma physics and advanced rocket propulsion with MEI Technologies’ well- established knowledge in safety, payload integration, engineering and advanced technology. The two companies have had a fruitful relationship for more than five years and share common values of excellence, integrity and ethics.

As a first step in this alliance, MEI Technologies will provide support in the development and integration of the VF-200 payload, a project to demonstrate Ad Astra’s proprietary technology, the VASIMR®, on the U.S. National Laboratory portion of the International Space Station. VASIMR® is a high power electric thruster for in-space propulsion that uses radio waves and strong magnetic fields to ionize and accelerate propellant and direct the resulting intense plasma jet to generate thrust. Selected by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics as one of the top 10 emerging aerospace technologies of 2009, the VASIMR® engine is fueled by abundant, inexpensive propellants and has demonstrated exhaust velocities from five to nearly 40 times higher than the best chemical rockets. The company’s current prototype engine, the VX-200, demonstrated its full 200 kW power rating in tests conducted last September 30 at Ad Astra’s Houston facility. In the near- term, when combined with high power photovoltaic solar arrays currently under development for space applications, the VASIMR® engine is expected to provide a transformational approach to in-space transportation, significantly reducing costs and enhancing efficiency over conventional chemical rockets. Farther in the future, and combined with high nuclear electric power, VASIMR® can drastically reduce the travel time for human and robotic missions to Mars and beyond.

“We have had a long and rewarding association with MEI Technologies, and it is a company that we trust to perform. Through this alliance, our team of scientists can focus on enhancing VASIMR®’s capability while leveraging MEI Technologies’ experience and expertise in payload integration and project development. In this relationship, we share a common vision: to revolutionize space transportation and exploration,” said Ad Astra CEO Dr. Franklin Chang Díaz.

“Ad Astra’s impressive technology coupled with our payload integration capabilities will ultimately result in innovative cargo and supply mechanisms, greater access to resources and broader support for robotic and human missions in space,” said MEI Technologies CEO Ed Muñiz.

This news can also be read on
FOXBusiness and SpaceRef.com.

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

MEI Technologies celebrates with President of Mexico
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Ed & Alicia Muñiz attend reception honoring Mexican-American astronaut

MEI Technologies, Inc.’s CEO Ed Muñiz and wife/advisory board member Alicia Muñiz recently joined the President of Mexico Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa in honoring Mexican-American astronaut José Hernández. Held at Los Pinos, President Calderón’s official residence, the reception celebrated Hernandez’ first trip into space as part of STS-128 on the Space Shuttle Discovery.


Pictured from left to right: President of Mexico Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa; Mexican-American NASA astronaut José Hernández; MEI Technologies CEO Ed Muñiz and wife/board of directors member Alicia Muñiz.