For Immediate Release 10/19/06
For More Information Contact:
Susan McNeill 302-996-9054

Cooper Appointed to McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds’ Board of Directors

Statewide  – McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds recently announced the appointment of Paul Edward Cooper to the company’s Executive Board of Directors. Cooper will work directly with the existing Board on the financial, managerial, strategic, and cultural life of the company, as well as assist in the development of company policies, the determination of corporate goals, and evaluation of staff performance.

Cooper is 1986 graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and received his MBA from Johns Hopkins University in 1994. A resident of Bridgeville, Delaware, Cooper is currently McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds’ Vice President of Game Development.  In this capacity, Cooper is directly responsible for content planning and development management of new games, as well as the management of third party relationships with game inventors and developers around the world.

“The addition of Paul Cooper to the McNeill Designs fills a critical niche in our team,” says company Chairman Donald W. McNeill. “He offers a unique combination -- a lifelong love of games and extensive, industry-specific expertise.”

Founded in 2004, McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds produces games and toys of all kinds. The company’s award-winning games include: You’ve been Sentenced! a language game where players use word cards to build sentences, challenging their ingenuity in a hilarious, competitive environment, and Twisted Fish a challenging memory game which requires strategy, deception, and bluffing skills, plus an intact sense of humor.

Nationwide response to the firm’s products has been enthusiastic. McNeill Designs games have been featured in national publications such as the home schooling magazine The Old Schoolhouse, the highbrow language enthusiasts’ publication Verbatim, the industry gold-standard Playthings, and on television’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.