Leading IT Services Company and IBM Premier Business Partner Positioned for Growth

[Omaha, Neb. - September 10, 2004] - MSI Systems Integrators (MSI) announced today significant organizational changes that reflect its commitment to solutions-based offerings for its clients and positions MSI for additional expansion and growth. MSI, a Premier IBM Business Partner and leading comprehensive IT solution provider, has made the following organizational changes:

• Jim Simpson will assume the chief executive officer responsibilities as well as maintain the president position. Tom Morrison, former CEO, will maintain his role as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
  
  
• Phil Sauvageau has been promoted to chief operating officer and will continue to report to Jim Simpson. Sauvageau will continue his senior executive leadership role within the established business practices including servers, storage, enterprise software, networking, data center facilities, and print and output management
  
  
• Craig Nelson, formerly the vice president of storage, was promoted into a new MSI role as the senior vice president of sales. Craig will report directly to Jim Simpson, and will focus on the sales management processes and managing the territory sales organization. Tony Regier, formerly a top performing storage specialist will assume the vice president of storage role.
  
  
• Joe Andersen, formerly the director of storage services and technology, was promoted into a new MSI position, vice president of services. This role is aimed at growing MSI's services business with a special emphasis on cross-brand offerings. Andersen will report directly to Phil Sauvageau and will also assume the senior leadership of the Technology Enablement Center.
  
  
• Jeff Sauvageau, former vice president of the networking business practice, has assumed the role as client development executive, a new position aimed at growing our business within a number of strategic growth clients.
  
  
• Vince Haman, formerly the zSeries director of services and technology, is assuming a special multi-year assignment of senior project director of MSI's on demand business reengineering project, a new role focused on enabling our business for growth. Vince will report directly to Phil Sauvageau and his zSeries management replacement will be named at a future time.
  
  
• John Weiss was promoted from controller to vice president of finance and will report directly to Jim Simpson.
  
  
• Charlie Wurtz, a new addition to the MSI team, accepted a role as vice president of enterprise availability solutions. Charlie comes to MSI with an extensive background in management and Cisco networking. He will be leading the enterprise availability solutions business practice, which includes the networking, data center, enterprise security and enterprise management groups. JJ Crouse was named as the enterprise security solution team leader and Jason Black has been appointed as the enterprise management solution team leader. Todd Minchow assumes the role of director of services & technology for the enterprise availability solutions group.
  
  
• Joe Wurtz, Jr., the vice president of the open systems business practice appointed Brain Gallob as the team lead for the Intel/Enterprise group and Mike Delange, a new addition to the MSI team, as the team lead for the MSI's new Microsoft group. Gallob and Delange will report to Cory Sodorff, the open systems manager of services and technology. Sodorff continues to report to Wurtz.
  
  
• Kevin Fratzke, the vice president of the iSeries business practice, announced a new addition to his team. Jay Johnson, formerly of iStructure, has accepted the director of iSeries services and technology position.
  
  

With these changes, MSI has added to its portfolio of IT solutions and is focused on bringing enterprise solutions to the on demand marketplace. MSI's portfolio of IT solutions include Enterprise Management, Enterprise Security, Business Intelligence, Business Integration, Business Continuity, Content Management, Output Management and Infrastructure Simplification. MSI will maintain its six business practices including storage, servers, enterprise software, networking, data center and print and output - all necessary solution components to building an on demand business.

"We are entering what should be our fourth consecutive record revenue and profit year. These organizational changes are necessary to manage our current and future growth goals," said Jim Simpson, President and CEO. "We're expanding into new territories and aggressively adding technology talent to respond to the local market needs. The management organization adjustments will improve our position to be more responsive, productive and resilient."

"Our breadth of solutions, back by the depth of local skills and talent is unique in the marketplace and the reorganization will take MSI to the next level of growth," said Phil Sauvageau, chief operating officer. "We continue to attract world-class engineers, architects, software developers and technology specialists to deliver enterprise IT solutions to these new and current markets."

About MSI Systems Integrators

MSI Systems Integrators helps companies make their businesses better by providing IT optimization, enterprise security, unified communications, business intelligence, business integration, business continuity, content management and open source solutions. A leading provider of hardware, software and services, MSI has deep technical skills and partners with technology leaders such as Symantec, HP, IBM, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and VMware to provide world-class business solutions that help companies be more responsive, productive and resilient. MSI is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska with offices throughout the United States. For more information about MSI, please visit www.msiinet.com or call 800-640-4674, extension 2394.

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Teresa Mardesen
MSI Systems Integrators
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