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Solomon Hires Division President
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla., June 6, 2007 - Solomon Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:SOLM), announced today that it has hired Jack Worthen as President of its Power Electronics Division.
Mr. Worthen has extensive sales, marketing and business development experience in the semiconductor and power electronics sectors. Mr. Worthen served as President of SatCon Electronics since April 2005 increasing business by 30% while introducing the company's first standard product line of high reliability power conversion products. These products included linear regulators and high efficiency dc-dc converters for the aerospace, avionics, and high end industrial markets. For most of his career Mr. Worthen worked for Sipex Corporation, most recently as Senior Vice President of Sales. There, he directed worldwide management of sales, customer service and applications engineering, leading a revenue increase over 2 years from $60M to $120M. He was a key team member in establishing the company as a leader in the power management market for portable power and distributed power applications. These products included linear regulators, switching regulators, and controllers serving the power supply, telecommunications, and consumer market segments.
Mr. Worthen will report to Gary G. Brandt, CEO, Solomon Technologies. Peter W. DeVecchis will continue as Solomon's President, Motive Power Division. Anthony F. Intino, II, President of Solomon's Technipower subsidiary, will report directly to Mr. Worthen.
"This is a significant addition to Solomon's management team and an important step in building a significant presence in the power electronics segment of our business," commented Gary G. Brandt, CEO of Solomon. "Jack Worthen is a respected industry leader with a track record that fits well with Solomon's business plan. He will be instrumental in integrating our pending acquisition of Deltron and in establishing a consistent marketing and sales approach to our growing portfolio of products and technology."
Mr. Worthen commented, "I am extremely pleased to be joining Solomon at this critical juncture as we complete the acquisition of Deltron and expand the portfolio of products and technology. I am excited about building the Power Electronics division through both internal growth and acquisition and am confident that we will be able to significantly expand cash flow with our lower cost offshore manufacturing."

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Solomon Technologies, Inc., through its Motive Power and Power Electronics divisions, develops, licenses, manufactures and sells precision electric power drive systems, including those utilizing its patented Electric Wheel(tm), Electric Transaxle(tm) and hybrid and regenerative technologies as well as direct current power supplies and power supply systems requiring high levels of reliability and ruggedness for defense, aerospace, marine, commercial, automotive, 'hybrid-electric' and 'all-electric' vehicle applications.
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