Obama Nominates Former Advisory Board Company Executive

Aneesh Chopra Named as Chief Technology Officer

WASHINGTON, April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In his weekly radio address on
Saturday, President Barack Obama announced his appointment of Aneesh Chopra, a
former Managing Director at The Advisory Board Company, to serve as the
nation's first Chief Technology Officer.

Chopra, currently Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia,
served as a senior executive and thought leader at the Advisory Board from
1997 to 2006. Chopra oversaw the firm's research on best practices for
addressing key challenges confronting health care providers and payers. In
this capacity he convened and counseled working groups of preeminent health
system CIOs, CFOs, and health plan executives. In addition, he advised the
Chairman on the firm's technology investment strategy and was instrumental in
launching Compass, the firm's first foray into deploying business intelligence
capabilities to drive performance improvement in health care.

In making the announcement, President Obama called on Chopra to "help us
revamp government operations from top to bottom and ensure that the federal
government is truly working for the American people." President Obama says
that Chopra's duties in his new role will involve using "technological
innovation to help achieve our most urgent priorities." As such, it is
anticipated that Chopra will contribute to health care reform efforts, given
his background in health IT and finance; Chopra won the Healthcare Information
and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) 2007 State Leadership Advocacy Award
for fostering health IT in Virginia.

"Aneesh has long been a leading thinker about the critical intersection of
health care and technology, and we are especially proud that he now has the
opportunity to apply the best-practice principles and creative problem-solving
approach he honed at the Advisory Board to the biggest challenges facing our
nation," said Advisory Board CEO Robert Musslewhite.

About The Advisory Board Company

The Advisory Board Company is the leading provider of comprehensive
performance improvement services to the health care and education sectors --
including operational best practices and insights, business intelligence and
analytic tools, management training, unbiased technology evaluation, and
consulting support. Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, The
Advisory Board Company is privileged to serve a membership of more than 2,700
organizations -- including preeminent hospitals, health systems and
universities -- all sharing a charter "above commerce," a commitment to
best-practice standards, and an unyielding insistence on continual
improvement.

www.advisoryboardcompany.com

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Cara Weiman, Managing Director of The Advisory Board Company, +1-202-266-5313,
weimanc@advisory.com