FAYETTEVILLE, AR (April 20, 2010) – Clete Brewer has been named Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of BlueInGreen^®, LLC a Fayetteville, Arkansas-based company. BlueInGreen provides innovative systems that improve and maintain water quality and create sustainable ecosystems.

Brewer, a Rogers, AR resident has spent the last 8 years with Georgetown, TX based Sport Clips Inc. as part-owner and President. Sport Clips grew from 42 stores to over 670 stores during Brewer's tenure and from $15 million in 2002 revenue to over $190 million in 2009. Entrepreneur Magazine named Sport Clips one of America's 50 Fastest Growing Franchises for the past five years.

Prior to Sport Clips Inc. Brewer was Chairman and CEO of StaffMark, later named Edgewater Technology, from 1994 to 2000 where Brewer helped grow the company from $12 million in revenue to over $1 billion in 1999. In 1998 he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the University of Arkansas Walton School of Business. Brewer began his business career in 1988 when he and his father co-founded Brewer Personnel in Fayetteville, Arkansas and launched into the staffing industry.

“I’ve watched BlueInGreen grow from just an idea to a recognized innovator in water quality,” said Brewer. “I am excited to have the opportunity to guide our expansion nationally and internationally. Our patented technology for delivering oxygen and ozone solutions has unlimited potential and will make water cleaner and safer for people and the ecosystem we all share.”

According to Calvin Goforth, Virtual Incubation Company CEO and BlueInGreen board member, “Clete has served on the Virtual Incubation board since 2002 and I am excited that he has now joined one of our most promising companies. Clete has built two companies from small firms into national players in their industries. He has a knack for identifying industries where the timing is perfect for exceptional growth. I am confident that under Clete’s direction, BlueInGreen will become a globally recognized leader in the water quality market place.”

"It is so exciting that BlueInGreen has progressed from a start-up company formed to commercialize research from the University of Arkansas in 2004, to a company that can attract a person with the capabilities and reputation of Clete Brewer” said Dr. Scott Osborn, BlueInGreen’s President. “Clete is the perfect person to lead us through the growth phase and take our products for economically improving water quality and creating sustainable ecosystems to streams, lakes, and wastewater treatment facilities around the world.”

Brewer is a member of the Dean’s Executive Advisory Board for the Walton College of Business and has served on the boards of Virtual Incubation Corporation since 2002 and Sports Clips since 2006. BlueInGreen’s patented Supersaturated Dissolved Oxygen delivery technology has been proven to lower energy and operating costs by up to 80 percent in side-by-side comparisons to conventional oxygenation methods.