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."

For more information, please contact Rightpoint at (312) 920-8383 / media@rightpoint.com.

About Rightpoint

Rightpoint creates world class digital solutions that drive profitable growth and sustainable competitive advantage. Driven by the firm’s passion for pragmatic thinking, Rightpoint’s business philosophy is to rethink the "typical" consulting model, combining attributes of management consulting, IT consulting, and creative agency services to help clients drive business results by solving strategic problems. Rightpoint’s pervasive “intrapreneurial” spirit, which ensures that clients "get it right" the first time, is the foundation by which Rightpoint has built a strong, national reputation for excellence.

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