Vienna, October 15, 2008 – ESPRiT Consulting has announced that Kurt Unterhuber will be joining the company as an Associate Partner based in Vienna. Unterhuber previously held the position of Partner responsible for the service line SAP Consulting at one of the world’s largest consulting firms, based in North America. He is now returning to home to Austria. Unterhuber began his international consulting career after successfully completing his MBA in Toronto in 1993. As well as taking on a management function at his previous company, he also led numerous major international SAP implementation and consulting projects in Canada, Italy, Germany, and the USA. In addition to taking up a management role at ESPRiT Austria, Mr. Unterhuber will be responsible for the global integration of the service line Business Intelligence (BI).

Kurt Unterhuber is delighted to be joining ESPRiT: “I’ve been particularly impressed by the spirit of enterprise and plans for growth at the ESPRiT partnership. BI is going to become an increasing important issue for a lot of companies in the next few years. It is here that ESPRiT Consulting has been able to establish a very good market position in the German-speaking world over the last few years. My objective is to build on this position and to develop innovative BI solutions for our clients.”

Karsten Höppner, the CEO of ESPRiT Consulting, adds: “We have an especially high regard for the international experience that Kurt Unterhuber brings with him to ESPRiT. He will provide outstanding support for our plans for growth, with our target of increasing the total staff size to 500 by 2012. We are absolutely convinced that he will give a significant boost to the international growth of the service line Business Intelligence.”