- Whittman-Hart
Infobox Company
company_name = WHITTMANHART INC
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = 1984
location =Chicago -Midwest
key_people =Paul Wimer - Chairman. David Skinner - CEO WhittmanHart Interactive. Mark Sullivan - CEO WhittmanHart Consulting
industry =Information technology consulting
products =
num_employees = 350+
homepage = [http://www.whittmanhart.com/ WhittmanHart]
footnotes =WHITTMANHART is a services company dealing with digital communications.
History
Founded by
Bob Bernard in theChicago area in 1984, it specialized first inAS/400 IT consulting. It grew steadily, for about 15 years, including some acquisitions. The company went public in1996 . In1997 , theFortune Magazine named it one of the fastest growing companies in the US.The company acquired
US Web/CKS , aCalifornia -basedweb consulting firm , after which Bob Bernard decided to rename the business marchFIRST, inc., the business was re-corporated onMarch 1 ,2000 . This was at the height of the dot-com boom in 2000.However, the company failed later that year, shuttering dozens of locations throughout the USA. It changed owners up to
2003 when it was reacquired by Bob Bernard. It still operates, but is not publicly traded. Its stock symbol was WHIT.In the last couple of years (2005-2006) WHITTMANHART has acquired numerous organizations including
Ohio based Infinis Inc,Philadelphia based Insight Interactive Group Inc, Maryland based Estco.net, LLC,Chicago based Vision Enterprises, and Los Angeles basedDNA Studio .Rolta acquired Whittman-Hart Consulting on July 29th 2008. http://www.rolta.com/media-centre/press-290708.html
External links
* [http://www.whittmanhart.com/ WHITTMANHART]
* [http://www.rolta.com/media-centre/press-290708.html Rolta acquires WHITTMANHART]
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