Vinod Sharma Promoted to Executive V.P of Business Development for India at Acoustiblok, Inc.

TAMPA, Florida, October 25, 2011 – Vinod Sharma has been named Acoustiblok Executive Vice President of Business Development for India and the contiguous region.

Sharma, who signed on as Director of Engineering for the Tampa-based sound abatement and aerogel thermal insulation company in March, will be responsible for expansion and growth of Acoustiblok, Inc. and Thermablok, Inc. in South Asia. He will report directly to CEO and President Lahnie Johnson.

Sharma, a native of Jaipur, India, moved to Tampa from Brunei in 1998. He brings more than 15 years' experience in consulting, design engineering and project management for industrial, governmental and public agencies in the U.S., India and Brunei.

Sharma earned a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Jaipur, India.

About Acoustiblok:

Acoustiblok's high quality noise abatement products, available since 1998, have earned the industry's highest ratings from architects, builders and consumers.

Acoustiblok is a proprietary viscoelastic polymer material with a high density mineral content, heavy and yet extremely flexible. As sound waves cause the Acoustiblok material to flex, internal friction occurs and the acoustical energy is dissipated into undetectable trace amounts of heat.

Just one, 1/8-inch layer of Acoustiblok in a standard wall will result in more sound reduction than 12-inches of poured concrete.

Environmentally friendly, Acoustiblok contains no lead or asbestos, is UV resistant and impervious to water and mold; it is UL rated and classified for virtually all wall, floor and ceiling installations.

Available internationally, Acoustiblok was awarded first place in England's Sound Abatement Competition, presented at the British House of Commons.

About Thermablok:

Thermablok received international attention for its role in the prestigious 2009 Solar Decathlon competition, in which the energy-conserving house built by architectural students at California College of the Arts (CCA) and Santa Clara University (SCU) won first place in the Architecture division with its state-of-the-art Refract House. Thermablok was featured in the Refract House, chosen for inclusion because of its incomparable insulating properties, the highest inexistence.

Made in the USA, Thermablok is 100-percent recyclable, impervious to moisture and mold, and unaffected by age. Green, energy-conscious architects are currently incorporating this latest answer to energy conservation and reducing CO2 emissions.

Just one, 3/8-inch x 1½-inch (10mm x 38mm) strip of Thermablok aerogel insulation added to only the edge of each stud before hanging drywall breaks the conductive "thermal bridging" and can increase the overall wall R-factor by more than 40-percent (US Department of Energy/JM Laboratories). NASA named Thermablok aerogel insulating material to its prestigious Spinoff list of companies that have successfully adapted NASA technology to everyday products and made them available to consumers.

Thermablok is most often used in construction as a preventative measure against thermal student to insulate a portable solar autoclave, providing health practitioners the ability to sterilize medical instruments in Haiti and other impoverished regions worldwide where electricity is unavailable.

Acoustiblok and Thermablok are 100-percent made in the U.S.A. For more information, email vsharma@acoustiblok.com, call 813-980-1400 x 205, or visit the website at www.acoustiblok.com.