FORMER CLINTON STAFFER TO JOIN SCHUYLERVILLE FIRM

SCHUYLERVILLE -- Pat Carpenter, who worked under the Clinton administration
in the Office of Drug Control Policy, will join the Schuylerville-based
biotech firm Drug Risk Solutions as director of laboratories, beginning
April 1.

Most recently, he was director of a laboratory in Las Vegas for Quest
Diagnostics, one of the largest drug testing companies in the country.

'This is a coup,' said David Brill, president and chief executive officer
of the 3-year-old Drug Risk Solutions. 'This is powerful.'

The company will eventually produce cutting-edge machines that will test
hair samples to see whether the person has been using drugs. The first
prototype is done with more on the way. The devices have applications in
the employment, medical education, military and criminal justice fields,
according to Brill.

So far, the company has raised roughly $3 million in investments, including
$500,000 recently from the Empire State Development Corporation's Small
Business Technology Investment Fund. Brill has 12 employees, nine of whom
are in Schuylerville.

Carpenter, who was in town with Brill on Thursday, said, 'I'm looking
forward to getting out and getting away. Matter of fact, I think I bought a
house today.'

In the past week, Brill and Carpenter were in the South, speaking at an
addiction conference and meeting with venture capitalists.

Brill is working out of trailers behind the old school building at the
corner of Route 29 and Broad Street in Schuylerville. After renovations by
Sonny Bonaccio and Roohan Realty are finished, Brill will move into part of
the school building.

He's hoping that happens by June 1, and when it does, Brill expects to
bring 50 well-paid laboratory jobs to the village.

Drug Risk Solutions recently signed a contract with different criminal
justice organizations and laboratories to test their drug-detecting devices.