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Exhibit
99.1
Marta Tienda Appointed to Novume Solutions Board of
Directors
CHANTILLY, VA / ACCESSWIRE / December 19, 2017
/ Novume Solutions,
Inc. (OTCQX: NVMM; OTCQX:
NVMMP; OTCQX: NVMMW), a holding company of leading professional
services firms, announced today that it has named a fourth
independent member to its seven-member Board of Directors. Marta
Tienda is Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies and
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University
and an independent trustee of the Teachers Insurance Annuity
Association (TIAA), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Jacobs
Foundation of Switzerland. She is the Director of the Wilson
School's Program in Latino Studies and also a member of the
Research Advisory Committee of the American Education Research
Association and the Mellon Foundation Advisory OCI Committee.
Professor Tienda has previously served on the boards of Brown
University, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the W.T. Grant
Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Kaiser Family
Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Professor
Tienda earned a BA from Michigan State University and an MA and PhD
from the University of Texas at Austin.
In announcing the appointment, James McCarthy, Chairman of the
Board of Novume, said “Professor Tienda's work on important
social issues such as educational inequality has had a major impact
on public attitudes and governmental policy in the United States.
She is known for her inquiring mind and respected for her rigorous
analytical capabilities. We are excited to bring her perspective
and dedication to the development of human potential to our
enterprise. As an independent director and a member of our
Governance and Compensation Committees, we expect her to make
important contributions to our Board. Her appointment is also an
important step in fulfilling the requirements of NASDAQ with
respect to our listing application.”
“As a premier human resource provider, we want to be sure
that our Board is in touch with the aspirations and needs of a
smart, diverse, multi-generational workforce and is familiar with
the broader issues surrounding human capital development”
said Novume CEO Robert Berman, “Professor Tienda's dedication
to working with her students at Princeton, as well as her
outstanding contributions to the field of public policy in
education, make her a perfect fit.”
Professor Tienda’s appointment was recommended to the Board
by the Governance Committee on December 8, 2017 and approved on
December 18, 2017. According to Paul de Bary, Lead Director,
“Our awareness of major public policy issues is very
important to our client base of leading companies. Marta's
extensive work as a board member and advisor to major financial and
educational institutions, as well as many of the nation's leading
philanthropic foundations, deepens our understanding in this
important area and will help us with both long range planning and
gap analysis.”
Professor Tienda’s appointment is effective
immediately.
About Novume Solutions, Inc.
Novume is a holding company of leading professional services firms.
These firms aggregate highly-specialized, difficult-to-find talent
and have the scale and systems to deploy that talent efficiently at
the enterprise-level at a moment’s notice. Novume focuses on
the logistics of procuring highly-specialized human resources and
delivering critical definitive knowledge to the right place at the
right time. Whether we manage our client’s workforce or
provide them with the tools to manage their own success, they need
exceptional people with distinctive experience. We do
that.
For more information, please visit Novume.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Inc. and its future expectations, plans and prospects that
constitute “forward-looking statements” within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those
projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks
that actual circumstances, events or results may differ materially
from those projected in the forward-looking statements,
particularly as a result of various risks and other factors
identified in our filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. All forward-looking statements contained in this press
release speak only as of the date on which they were made and are
based on management’s assumptions and estimates as of such
date. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of the receipt of
new information, the occurrence of future events, or
otherwise.
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Contact:
Novume Solutions, Inc.
info@novume.com
SOURCE: Novume Solutions,
Inc.