Alight Planning Announces Appointment of Tom Hartman as Director of Sales

Hartman Brings 30 Years Industry Experience to Alight Including Sales and
Support of Pillar and Microsoft BI
PLACERVILLE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Alight LLC, developers of the industry-leading Alight Planning financial
planning and reporting software, today announced the appointment of Tom Hartman
as Director of Sales. Based in Boston, Hartman will assume responsibility for
Alight`s sales activities on the East Coast.

Hartman has a long history in sales and support of financial planning and
reporting software. Previous to Alight, he was Director of Sales for KCI
Computing, a high end corporate performance management software package. Before
KCI, he was a Territory Manager and Senior Budget Specialist with the Microsoft
Business Intelligence group supporting the Microsoft Helmsman, Forecaster and
PerformancePoint product families. Earlier, Hartman had his own consulting firm
selling and installing Hyperion Pillar in such companies as The Boston Beer
Company, Bell Canada, NiSource and Hanes Menswear.

A Certified Management Accountant (CMA) with an MBA from the College of William
and Mary, Hartman also has ten years finance experience as an FP&A Manager and
Controller at PYA/Monarch, a subsidiary of Sara Lee, and other financial
planning positions with Colgate Palmolive and Fluor Corporation.

"Alight Planning is the most comprehensive planning and reporting software
package I`ve seen since the early days of Pillar, which I worked with
extensively," said Hartman. "Alight is extending the Pillar traditional with
unique architectures and analytic tools for driver-based planning, integrating
actuals and scenario analysis. It is a huge opportunity to become a part of the
Alight team which truly understands planning and reporting at the customer
implementation level."

"It`s rare to find a person like Tom with hands-on finance credentials plus deep
product sales and implementation experience with financial software," said Rand
Heer, Alight`s founder and CEO. "In particular, Tom`s experience with Pillar,
which was developed in substantial part by the current Alight team, and his
extensive knowledge of the competitive landscape for business performance
management software will trigger further expansion of Alight`s customer base
here in the US."

About Alight LLC:

Rated number one amongst its competitors in customer satisfaction in the 2009
BPM Pulse Survey, Alight LLC`s Alight Planning is a true driver-based financial
planning and reporting software package that automates complex business modeling
for more accurate strategic plans, revenue projections, budgets and rolling
forecasts. Its unique architectures and easy-to-use interfaces provide finance
staff the power they need to build complex driver-based planning models, while
delivering traditional planning structures such as line item detail, integrated
financial statements and multiple-user security. Cost-effective and
IT-independent, Alight Planning is affordable and easily deployed by Fortune
1,000 business units, as well as midmarket companies with limited IT resources.
Customers include Kaiser Permanente, Down East Enterprises, Pittsburgh Mercy
Hospital and the Swan and Dolphin Resort at Disney World. For more information
about Alight Planning, visit www.AlightPlanning.com or call 800-960-7717.

Alight LLC
Debbie Mullins, 800-960-7717
DMullins@AlightPlanning.com

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