Answerthink Announces the Election of John R. Harris to its Board of Directors
January 11 2006 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
Answerthink, Inc. (Nasdaq:ANSR) a leading business and technology
consulting firm, announced today the election of John R. Harris,
58, to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Harris is succeeding
Mr. Jeffrey E. Keisling, an Answerthink board of director since
1999. Mr. Keisling is resigning from the Board to focus on his new
position as Vice President, Corporate Information Services and
Chief Information Officer at Wyeth, one of the world's largest
research-driven pharmaceutical and health care product companies.
The Board accepted Mr. Keisling's resignation and thanked him for
his significant contribution to Answerthink over the last six
years. Mr. Harris has over 30 years of experience in the business
and technology services industry with responsibilities spanning
sales, marketing, business operations and mergers/acquisitions, as
well as extensive international experience in Europe, the Middle
East and Asia. Most recently, Mr. Harris served as the CEO of Seven
Worldwide and has also served as CEO with several privately held
technology services companies. He was with Electronic Data Systems
(EDS) for over 25 years in various positions including Group Vice
President and Corporate Officer. "We are very pleased to welcome
John to the Board of Directors," said Ted A. Fernandez, chairman
and chief executive officer of Answerthink, Inc. "He brings
extensive industry and global experience and I believe that he will
be a great addition to our Board and will be an active and involved
member." Mr. Harris holds both a BBA and MBA from West Georgia
University. He sits on the board of directors of Ventiv Health and
Premiere Global Services, and over the years he has had extensive
experience in other board positions with telecommunications,
broadcast and technology service companies. About Answerthink, Inc.
Answerthink, Inc. - http://www.answerthink.com - is a leading
business and technology consulting firm that enables companies to
achieve world-class business performance. By leveraging the
comprehensive database of The Hackett Group, Answerthink's business
and technology solutions help clients significantly improve
performance and maximize returns on technology investments.
Answerthink's capabilities include benchmarking, business
transformation, business applications, business intelligence, and
offshore application development and support. Founded in 1997,
Answerthink has offices throughout the United States and in Europe
and India. About The Hackett Group The Hackett Group -
http://www.thehackettgroup.com, a business process advisory firm
and an Answerthink company, is a world leader in best practice
research, benchmarking and advisory services that empower
executives to achieve world-class enterprise performance. Only The
Hackett Group empirically defines world-class performance in sales,
general and administrative (SG&A) and supply chain activities
with analysis gained through 3,300 benchmark studies over 13 years
at nearly 2,000 of the world's leading companies. The foundation of
Hackett's benchmarks, transformation services, and membership-based
advisory programs is our proprietary database of
Hackett-Certified(SM) Practices, approaches which are proven to
correlate with superior performance metrics. This unparalleled
knowledge repository enables Hackett business advisors to provide
data, advice, and strategic insight with a level of integrity and
authority available nowhere else. As of this writing, Hackett
clients comprise 96 percent of the Dow Jones Industrials, 77
percent of the Fortune 100 and 92 percent of the Dow Jones Global
Titans Index. Hackett-Certified, Book of Numbers, and Hackett
World-Class Passport are service marks of The Hackett Group, Inc.
This press release contains "forward looking statements" within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that may cause the Company's actual results, performance or
achievements to be materially different from the results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward
looking statements. Factors that impact such forward looking
statements include, among others, our ability to effectively
integrate acquisitions into our operations, our ability to attract
additional business, our ability to effectively market and sell our
recently launched product offerings and other new services, the
timing of projects and the potential for contract cancellations by
our customers, changes in expectations regarding the information
technology industry, our ability to attract and retain skilled
employees, possible changes in collections of accounts receivable,
risks of competition, price and margin trends, changes in general
economic conditions and interest rates as well as other risks
detailed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2004 filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. We undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly
any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.
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