BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct. 10, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CTG (NASDAQ:CTG), an information technology (IT) services and solutions Company, today announced that Rick Sullivan has been appointed Vice President in the Company’s Strategic Staffing Services division. He joins James Nichiporuk, who was appointed Strategic Staffing Services Vice President earlier this year.

In the position of Vice President, Sullivan will have executive responsibility for several of CTG’s largest accounts along with other geographically-determined relationships.

Bud Crumlish, CTG’s President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “Rick’s appointment reflects his track record of significant accomplishment and leadership in our strategic staffing business. Rick’s information technology and staffing services experience, coupled with his rich institutional knowledge of CTG and its people, and a strong entrepreneurial approach to business makes him well-suited for this role. Rick will work closely with Jim Nichiporuk and together they will lead our efforts to accelerate growth in our staffing business, achieve more efficient operations, enhance the Company’s client service capabilities, and attract and retain top technical talent.”

Sullivan has been a key contributor to CTG’s staffing business for more than 25 years, and his entire career has been spent in the information technology industry, ranging from IT strategic staffing services, IT talent permanent placement, managed services provision, large client account management, and data center operations management. Over the course of his career, he has developed many strong, long-lasting relationships with clients in the high-growth industries that CTG serves, including healthcare, energy, technology services, financial services, and local, state, and federal government. Sullivan’s experience, entrepreneurial spirit, and commitment to delivery excellence has helped foster these relationships.

Prior to joining CTG, Sullivan served as Director of Technical Services at the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, California. He also held numerous management positions at IBM and Control Data.

About CTG

CTG provides industry-specific IT services and solutions that address the business needs and challenges of clients in high-growth industries in North America and Western Europe. CTG also provides strategic staffing services for major technology companies and large corporations. Backed by 50 years of experience and proprietary methodologies, CTG has a proven track record of reliably delivering high-value, industry-specific staffing services and solutions to its clients. CTG has operations in North America, Western Europe, and India. The Company regularly posts news and other important information online at www.ctg.com.

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This document contains certain forward-looking statements concerning the Company’s current expectations as to future growth, financial outlook, business strategy and expectations for 2016, and statements related to cost control, new business opportunities, financial performance, market demand, and other attributes of the Company. These statements are based upon the Company’s expectations and assumptions, a review of industry reports, current business conditions in the areas where the Company does business, feedback from existing and potential new customers, a review of current and proposed legislation and governmental regulations that may affect the Company and/or its customers, and other future events or circumstances. Actual results could differ materially from the outlook guidance, expectations, and other forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including among others, the availability to the Company of qualified professional staff, domestic and foreign industry competition for customers and talent, increased bargaining power of large customers, the Company’s ability to protect confidential client data, the partial or complete loss of the revenue the Company generates from International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and/or SDI International (SDI), the uncertainty of customers’ implementations of cost reduction projects, the effect of healthcare reform and initiatives, the mix of work between staffing and solutions, currency exchange risks, risks associated with operating in foreign jurisdictions, renegotiations, nullification, or breaches of contracts with customers, vendors, subcontractors or other parties, the change in valuation of recorded goodwill or capitalized software balances, the impact of current and future laws and government regulation, as well as repeal or modification of such, affecting the information technology (IT) solutions and staffing industry, taxes and the Company’s operations in particular, industry and economic conditions, including fluctuations in demand for IT services, consolidation among the Company’s competitors or customers, the need to supplement or change our IT services in response to new offerings in the industry or changes in customer requirements for IT products and solutions and other factors that involve risk and uncertainty including those listed in the Company’s reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as of the date of this document. Such forward-looking statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s disclosures set forth in the Company’s 2015 Form 10-K, which is incorporated by reference, and other reports that may be filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this release.

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