FALLS CHURCH, Va., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that Joe Best has been promoted to customer relationship executive for its North American Public Sector's (NPS) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) business area.

In this position, Joe will serve as a strategic partner and be responsible for managing the HHS relationship to help maximize customer satisfaction and introduce new innovation as appropriate. This will involve developing long-term integrated account plans for HHS, as well as facilitating the department's access to service offerings and best practices across CSC's commercial and public sector work throughout the world. Best will report to Mike Gaffney, president of Business Development for CSC's NPS business unit.

"With his extensive experience in health and human services and business development, Joe will help CSC achieve our goal of transforming healthcare with better information for better decisions," said James W. Sheaffer, president of CSC's NPS business unit. "We are very pleased to have Joe bring his expertise to this new role, which is very important to our company and our strategic growth plan, Project Accelerate."

Best has worked at CSC for 25 years. Since 1994, he has served as business development director for HHS, where he helped grow CSC's public sector health business.

Best holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in human organization science with a concentration in public administration from Villanova University.


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CSC is a leading information technology (IT) services company. CSC's mission is to be a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services.

With approximately 90,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC reported revenue of $16.5 billion for the 12 months ended March 28, 2008. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.csc.com.