The Apogee Foundation has named 18 Regional Representatives to cover 14 regions across America, Europe and Asia. The mandate of Apogee's Regional Representatives is to assist the Foundation in developing local networks of relationships and in implementing Apogee's programs throughout their respective territories.

Apogee's newly announced Regional Representatives for 2007 are as follows:

America: - San Francisco: Susan Schneider, M.D. - Los Angeles: Camran N. Shafii - Philadelphia: Bernard Schneider, M.D. and Marjorie Schneider - New York: Kenneth Schneider - Boston: John H. Silva

Europe:

- London: Kenneth Schneider - Bratislava: Michael A. Fortier

- Warsaw: Alicia Szymanska

- Odessa: Youri Kuznetsov and Tatyana Markova - Moscow: Boris A. Egorov, Ludmila P. Suvorova, Nikolai L. Dokukin, and Tatiana N. Dokukina

- Perm: Evgeny P. Subbotin

Asia: - Tel Aviv: Semion Yaroshevich

- Shanghai: Michael P. Chien

- Tokyo: Tadao Otsuki

Apogee expects to appoint additional Regional Representatives during 2007 to provide the Foundation with even greater coverage and expertise.

Apogee President Kenneth Schneider said: "Apogee owes much of its success over the past decade to the talent and dedication of our Regional Representatives and the enthusiasm they have invested in our mission and vision. On behalf of the Foundation's supporters and beneficiaries around the globe, I offer these wonderful people our organization's profoundest respect and gratitude."

For more information regarding Apogee's Regional Representatives, please refer to the Foundation's website: http://www.apogeefoundation.org/people/representatives.php

To view this news release with full photographic content and to download printer friendly and PDF formats, as well as to obtain translations into other languages as they become available, please refer to the Foundation's website: http://www.ApogeeFoundation.org/awareness/2006-2007/america_europe_asia.php

About The Apogee Foundation ® Now in its tenth year of operations, The Apogee Foundation is a New York based not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the development of human excellence in the performing arts. Apogee supports cultural institutions and individual artists, providing administrative, promotional, and financial support to help talented individuals achieve their full potential, and enabling this potential to be showcased to the world.

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