Answerthink Announces the Election of John R. Harris to its Board of Directors.

MIAMI -- Answerthink, Inc. (Nasdaq:ANSR) a leading business and technology consulting firm, announced today the election of John R. Harris, 58, to the Company's Board of Directors.

Mr. Harris is succeeding Mr. Jeffrey E. Keisling, an Answerthink board of director since 1999. Mr. Keisling is resigning from the Board to focus on his new position as Vice President, Corporate Information Services and Chief Information Officer at Wyeth, one of the world's largest research-driven pharmaceutical and health care product companies. The Board accepted Mr. Keisling's resignation and thanked him for his significant contribution to Answerthink over the last six years.

Mr. Harris has over 30 years of experience in the business and technology services industry with responsibilities spanning sales, marketing, business operations and mergers/acquisitions, as well as extensive international experience in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Most recently, Mr. Harris served as the CEO of Seven Worldwide and has also served as CEO with several privately held technology services companies. He was with Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for over 25 years in various positions including Group Vice President and Corporate Officer.

"We are very pleased to welcome John to the Board of Directors," said Ted A. Fernandez, chairman and chief executive officer of Answerthink, Inc. "He brings extensive industry and global experience and I believe that he will be a great addition to our Board and will be an active and involved member."

Mr. Harris holds both a BBA and MBA from West Georgia University. He sits on the board of directors of Ventiv Health and Premiere Global Services, and over the years he has had extensive experience in other board positions with telecommunications, broadcast and technology service companies.

About Answerthink, Inc.

Answerthink, Inc. - http://www.answerthink.com - is a leading business and technology consulting firm that enables companies to achieve world-class business performance. By leveraging the comprehensive database of The Hackett Group, Answerthink's business and technology solutions help clients significantly improve performance and maximize returns on technology investments. Answerthink's capabilities include benchmarking, business transformation, business applications, business intelligence, and offshore application development and support. Founded in 1997, Answerthink has offices throughout the United States and in Europe and India.

About The Hackett Group

The Hackett Group - http://www.thehackettgroup.com, a business process advisory firm and an Answerthink company, is a world leader in best practice research, benchmarking and advisory services that empower executives to achieve world-class enterprise performance. Only The Hackett Group empirically defines world-class performance in sales, general and administrative (SG&A) and supply chain activities with analysis gained through 3,300 benchmark studies over 13 years at nearly 2,000 of the world's leading companies.

The foundation of Hackett's benchmarks, transformation services, and membership-based advisory programs is our proprietary database of Hackett-Certified(SM) Practices, approaches which are proven to correlate with superior performance metrics. This unparalleled knowledge repository enables Hackett business advisors to provide data, advice, and strategic insight with a level of integrity and authority available nowhere else. As of this writing, Hackett clients comprise 96 percent of the Dow Jones Industrials, 77 percent of the Fortune 100 and 92 percent of the Dow Jones Global Titans Index.

Hackett-Certified, Book of Numbers, and Hackett World-Class Passport are service marks of The Hackett Group, Inc.

This press release contains "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward looking statements. Factors that impact such forward looking statements include, among others, our ability to effectively integrate acquisitions into our operations, our ability to attract additional business, our ability to effectively market and sell our recently launched product offerings and other new services, the timing of projects and the potential for contract cancellations by our customers, changes in expectations regarding the information technology industry, our ability to attract and retain skilled employees, possible changes in collections of accounts receivable, risks of competition, price and margin trends, changes in general economic conditions and interest rates as well as other risks detailed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.