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Rightpoint Acquires Anthem Partners
WhittmanHart Veteran Anthony Samuta Brings Additional Strength to Rightpoint's Management Team

CHICAGO, IL - December 29, 2008 - Rightpoint, a leading management and technology consulting firm, announced today that it has acquired Anthem Partners, a Chicago-based consulting firm led by Anthony Samuta to form an integrated team of consulting professionals.

With the addition of Anthem Partners, Rightpoint will further expand its current set of integrated offerings across a broad industry spectrum. Collectively, the two organizations draw expertise from hundreds of projects and decades of experience in customer relationship management, business process improvement, interactive marketing and outsourced IT solutions.

“The combination of Rightpoint’s strong experience in business performance improvement, business intelligence and interactive marketing services, with Anthem’s breadth of technology process and systems experience, significantly expands our joint capabilities and creates greater value for our clients,” said Brad Schneider, Co-founder of Rightpoint. “Anthony is a proven leader in the industry with an outstanding reputation and we are thrilled to have him as part of the Rightpoint team. By leveraging our complementary expertise, we will be better positioned to develop a platform for growth.”

Samuta comes to Rightpoint with over 20 years of professional experience in the information technology and high tech industry, holding senior management positions with technology services and software companies including WhittmanHart, where he served as regional vice president and Divine, Inc, where he was Vice President of Consulting Services.

“I am honored to become part of the Rightpoint organization, which is known for its quality services and outstanding working environment,” said Anthony Samuta. “By joining together, our clients will benefit from expanded resources and additional skill sets, which will be the basis of achieving our common vision of providing IT services and strategic outsourcing to solve complex business needs.”

About Rightpoint

Rightpoint is a consulting firm whose sole purpose is to help organizations increase revenue, reduce cost and gain competitive advantage by delivering solutions that combine technology, process improvements and deep industry expertise. Rightpoint's business solutions group is comprised of experienced business and technology architects that help organizations simplify and automate business processes with portal, workflow, business intelligence and CRM solutions to achieve profitable growth. Rightpoint's interactive solutions group provides web development and interactive marketing expertise to create world class revenue-generating websites and Intranets for clients.

About Anthem Partners

Anthem Partners is a Management & Technology firm which is focused delivering business solutions that improve business processes, reduce costs, drive client acquisition & retention and drive strong ROI for clients. Anthem's core service offerings include Management Consulting (PMO, Business Process, Strategy, and Change & Transformation), ERP Implementation & Enhancements, Technology (ECM, BI/DW, Custom Applications, Network Design).

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