Los Angeles, California, March 26, 2009 ? Eric W. Hum, CPA, is now part of specialized client solution teams of Avant Advisory Group (www.avantadvisory.com), a premier management consulting firm. Mr. Hum has a broad and diverse background with over 10 years of combined Big Four firm accounting and consulting experience. He has practiced in a variety of industries including: manufacturing, financial services, entertainment, and software. He has managed finance and accounting business units, led Sarbanes Oxley implementation projects, enterprise-wide reorganizations, and ?best practice? process standardization assignments.

Avant Advisory Group provides specialty services in turnarounds and restructurings, forensics and litigation support, and merger and acquisition advisory services. The firm also provides strategic, operational, and financial expertise to its clients with its CFO and C-Suite services. ?Our firm?s goal is to reduce costs, increase profitability, and improve cash flows for our clients, particularly in this tough economic environment,? said Marty McDermut, managing director of Avant Advisory. ?I?m excited that Eric has joined the Avant team. He is a Big Four firm trained CPA and has honed his skills further with extensive business and consulting experience. ?McDermut added, ?Eric has the financial background and talent to support clients in need of our turnaround and restructuring services, as well as those requiring forensics and litigation support. Finally, for those companies that cannot afford the cost of a full time controller or chief accounting officer, now on an ?as needed? or interim basis, they can access Eric?s accounting and controllership abilities.?

Hum is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and holds a bachelor of science in accounting from the University of Southern California. To learn more about Hum, his capabilities, and client accomplishments, please refer to http://avantadvisory.com/bio_eric_hum.php

About Avant Advisory Group

Avant Advisory is a professional consulting firm comprised of highly practiced strategic, operating, and financial executives. Avant?s consultants have decades of combined business, executive, and consulting experience and thousands of successful success stories. The firm?s professionals come from some of the most prestigious consulting firms and companies.

Avant Advisory Group specializes in:

? C-Suite executive and interim management: CFO, CRO, COO, CEO, and board of directors

? Turnarounds, restructurings, and bankruptcy for troubled companies

? Forensics, fraud investigations, and litigation support

? Mergers, acquisitions, and capital transactions

Clients include public, middle-market, and emerging-growth companies. Their management teams, investors, capital providers, and other professionals, including attorneys, trustees, receivers, creditor committees, secured lenders, and other parties-in-interest, all benefit from the firm's services.

Avant Advisory Group?s mission is to leverage trust and confidence in its services, create value, and enhance each client?s success. The firm accomplishes this by helping clients improve profits, EBITDA, cash flows, and asset management. There is also no stronger advocate for each client than Avant whether it is by its forensics and litigation support services, turnaround, restructuring, and crisis management expertise, merger and acquisition advisory services, or its profitability and operational improvement capabilities.

To learn more about Avant Advisory Group, please refer to www.avantadvisory.com or call Martin S. McDermut, CPA at (805) 705 0042.