PGA's Venturi Technology Partners and ComplementSoft Announce Sales and Marketing Alliance.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2002

Venturi Technology Partners, a leading provider of IT consulting solutions in the US, a division of Personnel Group of America, Inc. (NYSE: PGA), announced today the formation of a new sales and marketing alliance with ComplementSoft LLC, a software development company building The Software Productivity Tool for SAS(a).

With ComplementSoft's ASAP(b) product, users can now automatically - and graphically - visualize their SAS(a) program flow, execution flow, and data flow. This patented visualization technology is integrated with its own SAS aware editor and can utilize other existing editors such as UltraEdit. The graphical representation of the Data Flow reduces development cycle-time, streamlines legacy code interpretation, and enhances program quality. The Data Flow diagrams can be saved as JPEG's, exported, or printed to provide immediate and automatic documentation. ASAP is already deployed in over 20 Fortune 500 companies providing documented productivity gains for SAS users.

Ed Schroeder, CEO of ComplementSoft said today "We are extremely pleased to enter into this relationship with Venturi. Venturi has long been regarded as the premier consultant when clients are looking for SAS(a) expertise. Leveraging ASAP allows Venturi yet another vehicle to enhance their customers SAS implementations. The manual building, debugging, visualizing, and diagramming of SAS(a) programs is a thing of the past. We are pleased that the productivity gained through ASAP helps our customers, from business expert to analyst to programmer in becoming more productive."

Kerry Bahnick, President of the National SAS Practice for Venturi stated, "We have been testing ASAP in house for some time now and are very pleased with the product's features and functions. We are recommending to our customers that

they seriously evaluate the product for themselves. ASAP allows us to more effectively use our consulting hours with our clients, giving our clients a higher return for each hour."

About Venturi Technology Partners

Venturi Technology Partners, a division of Personnel Group of America, is a provider of information technology consulting and custom software development services and technology systems for human capital management. Venturi Technology Partners has over 2,500 IT consultants with offices nationwide.

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(a) All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective

owners.

(b) ComplementSoft and ASAP are trademarks of ComplementSoft LLC.