For Immediate Release                                                                                                       NEWS Contact: Mr. Adam Underwood                                                                                  Telephone: 919-459-5264 Email: aunderwood@ei1.com The EI Group’s Allison Cummings Elected President-Elect of NC ASSE May 19, 2009 Research Triangle Park, NC - The EI Group, Inc. (EI) is pleased to announce that Business Development Specialist, Allison Cummings, has been elected President-Elect of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE).  Ms. Cummings was nominated and elected by a group of her peers representing manufacturing, municipalities, construction, consulting, telecommunications, and educational institutions in North Carolina.  Founded in 1911, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) is the world's oldest and largest professional safety organization. ASSE's mission is to promote the advancement of the safety profession and foster the technical, scientific, managerial and ethical knowledge, skills and competency of safety professionals. It's 28,000 members manage, supervise, and consult on safety, health, and environmental issues in industry, insurance, government, and education.  Ms. Cummings will serve in the President-Elect role for the 2009-2010 term.  Greg Lathan, President of The EI Group, remarked, “We are honored to have Allison represent EI as President-Elect of the nation’s oldest and largest safety organization.  The North Carolina Chapter of the ASSE is committed to ‘protecting people, property and the environment’ and the knowledge and experience Allison brings to the table as part of The EI Group will be invaluable to the Chapter’s future endeavors.”  About The EI Group, Inc. - The EI Group was founded in 1988 as an environmental, health and safety consulting firm dedicated to providing quality, cost-effective consulting, training and engineering services to municipalities, utilities, manufacturing, government, banking, legal and commercial real estate clients nationwide.  EI, a privately owned company, employs approximately one hundred (100) professionals and is headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, with branch offices in Charlotte and Wilmington, North Carolina; Richmond and Roanoke, Virginia; Greenville, South Carolina; Louisville, Kentucky; and Dallas, Texas. For more information on The EI Group’s involvement with ASSE and other organizations, please contact Adam Underwood, aunderwood@ei1.com or 919.459.5264.   *          *          *          *          * 2101 Gateway Centre Boulevard      Suite 200      Morrisville      North Carolina      27560      800.717.3472