CHARLESTON, S.C. – SEPT. 28, 2010 **– **PeopleMatter president and chief executive officer, Nate DaPore, and senior vice president of technology, Ken Haigh, will lead the Cloud Computing Vendor Panel Discussion on Sept. 29, 2010 from 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. CST at the Fall 2010 National Restaurant Association's (NRA) Information Technology Executive Study Group. Brad Cyprus, senior security architect of Vendor Safe will also participate in the discussion.

The NRA invited DaPore and Haigh for their expertise in the Software as a Service (SaaS) and Cloud computing fields, specifically concerning the restaurant and service industries. DaPore has more than 10 years of sales, operations and marketing leadership in the SaaS-based human resource and benefits space. Haigh, who helped developed wireless e-mail and mobile software before joining PeopleMatter, has more than 16 years of experience in software development. PeopleMatter is currently developing a SaaS-based talent management system for the restaurant and convenience store (C-store) industries.

The Information Technology Executive Study Group will be held Sept. 28 – Oct. 1, 2010, at the Millennium Hotel in Minneapolis with top restaurant-industry technology executives invited to attend. Additional education sessions will focus on social media, electronic ordering and loyalty marketing, featuring roundtables, expert speakers and peer discussion sessions. Executive Study Groups are held biannually to explore challenges and develop innovative responses to unique and specific issues within the restaurant industry.

**About PeopleMatter
**PeopleMatter is a talent management solution for the service industry. We help companies like restaurants and C-Stores hire dependable employees and other service-industry employers, ignite their passion and inspire enduring loyalty by providing a comprehensive suite of HR tools including hiring, learning, scheduling, performance management, rewards and recognition and workplace social media collaboration. Our mission is to transform the workplace by providing managers and employees with tools that catalyze the innate human drive to make a difference–-because happy, engaged employees and managers lead to exemplary customer service. PeopleMatter. _The name says it all. _PeopleMatter is headquartered in Charleston, S.C., and on the Web at www.peoplematter.com.

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