HOUSTON … January 24, 2017 … Gorilla Safety, provider of an innovative, proprietary and patented software solution that fully automates all aspects of fleet and safety management, announced today the Company has strengthened its workforce with the addition of several new employees and at the same time, is relocating its corporate office to new headquarters.

Greg Flowers, Noma Jawad and T. Alexander Moises have each been named to the post of account representatives, reporting to Shannon McLeroy, director of sales.

In this capacity, these professionals will focus on ensuring that the rapidly evolving, embryonic mobile transportation technology marketplace is aware of the capabilities found in Gorilla Safety’s innovative fleet management solution.

Flowers previously spent more than five years at Great Western Leasing & Sales, Inc., based in Houston, as a global sales associate, where he focused on sales, leasing and financing of semi-trailers for the oil and gas industry, serving customers around the world.

Jawad was a sales director at ClubCorp., a fitness management company with four locations in the Houston area. During her tenure, she drove membership and oversaw 20+ sales representatives, providing them sales training.

Moises brings significant experience in the drafting and design of heavy haul trailers and equipment to the Company. Over the years, he gained significant insight into the trucking industry through his draftsman roles. Most recently, he spent nearly nine years serving as senior draftsman at DFI, a trucking company. Prior, he was a production draftsman for Sota Glazing, a commercial architectural company, working closely with the engineering teams. Earlier, Moises was senior draftsman and safety officer at Camex Equipment Rentals, a trucking and equipment leasing company, where he ensured all equipment met safety standards. He began his career at Aspen Trailer and Scona Trailer and, working as a production draftsman.

As part of its future growth and expansion plans, Gorilla Safety has also doubled the resources the Company dedicates to R&D. The development roadmap includes the addition of many new features to its novel app. Gorilla Safety plans to bring those to market by midyear 2017.

In related news, to accommodate the Company’s rapid growth, Gorilla Safety is relocating its corporate Houston-based headquarters to a location at 20008 Champion Forest Drive, Spring, Tex., 77379, 844-636-1360. The move is directly related to the continued adoption of Gorilla Safety’s fleet management mobile app, which made its debut at the onset of 2016.

“By both moving our physical location and expanding our employee network, Gorilla Safety continues to focus on product enhancements, white label opportunities for personally branding the Gorilla Safety solution for clients, which has been in greater demand, and broadening sales efforts. Our new location affords us the space to continue to scale over the next several years as mobile fleet management adoption continues to flourish. We welcome our new account representatives and look forward to the contributions they will make in their new roles and to the future growth of Gorilla Safety,” explained Mark Walton, Gorilla Safety co-founder.

“We will continue to innovate our mobile app, always seeking to improve the user experience. Furthermore, as the adoption of the impending U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Electronic Logging Device (ELD) ruling that ensures commercial truck drivers are in compliance with respect to hours of service regulations fast approaches, Gorilla Safety stands ready. Gorilla Safety was the second company in the nation to earn certification for its ELD solution. To remain on the cutting edge of initiatives like ELD as well as many other safety and fleet management protocols, processes and changes, we are building the right team to be prepared and to further demonstrate a leadership role in automating this space,” said Tommy Johnson, Gorilla Safety’s co-founder.

About Gorilla Safety
Launched at the onset of 2016 and founded in 2013 by two seasoned insurance industry professionals, Houston-based Gorilla Safety provides the transportation industry with a patented, affordable cloud-based software solution that automates every aspect of fleet and safety management. Gorilla Safety brings to the marketplace the first and only easy-to-use mobile app that fully integrates all the capabilities necessary for safely and efficiently managing large short-haul and long-haul vehicle fleets. The Gorilla Safety app boasts many features that allow users to better manage their business, improve productivity, increase profitability and lower insurance claims and premiums – all done quickly and simply from the palm of their hands.

For more information, visit www.gorillasafety.com, go to the Gorilla Safety Facebook page or follow the Company on Twitter @Gorilla_Safety and LinkedIn.

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