Black Box Corporation Announces New CEO.

PITTSBURGH -- Black Box Corporation (NASDAQ:BBOX) today announced that its Board of Directors, following an extensive executive search, has appointed Terry Blakemore as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Blakemore, a Senior Vice President of the Company, had served in the capacity of Interim President and Chief Executive Officer since May 2007.

Mr. Blakemore has had an extensive and very successful 25-year career in the voice and data telecommunications industry. Prior to serving as Senior Vice President of the Company, Mr. Blakemore served as Manager of Business Development and, prior thereto, as General Manager of the Company's Voice Services business unit.

Thomas G. Greig, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, stated, "The appointment of Terry Blakemore as President and Chief Executive Officer represents a logical step and the well-deserved recognition of his numerous accomplishments since joining the Black Box team in 1999. Mr. Blakemore has been instrumental in directing the Company's acquisition strategy which has resulted in Black Box evolving into a premier provider of Voice Services. This strategy perfectly compliments the Black Box Data and Hotline products and service offerings. We are very optimistic about Mr. Blakemore's ability to expand this leadership role and his long tenure in a senior executive capacity with the Company will assure a seamless transition. The Board of Directors has full confidence in Mr. Blakemore's ability to successfully lead the Company's strategy of serving our world-wide customers with superior products and technical services."

"I am honored with the opportunity to continue the 31 year tradition of excellence that Black Box is known for and look forward to leading the Company and its 4,500 world-wide team members into the future," commented Mr. Blakemore. "I will continue to emphasize our strategy of profitable growth organically, through various partnerships as well as through strategic acquisitions and mergers. At the same time, Black Box will continue to focus on providing superior Data, Voice and Hotline products and services to our loyal and very important world-wide customer base."

About Black Box

Black Box is the world's largest technical services company dedicated to designing, building and maintaining today's complicated data and voice infrastructure systems. Black Box services 175,000 clients in 141 countries with 187 offices throughout the world. To learn more, visit the Black Box website at www.blackbox.com.

Black Box and the Double Diamond logo are registered trademarks of BB Technologies, Inc.

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