CDW Promotes Chris Rother to Group Vice President, Sales, CDW Government, Inc.; Fifteen-Year Company Veteran to Lead Government, Education and Healthcare Sales

In this new role, Rother will oversee federal, state & local,K-12, higher education and healthcare sales. Rother will work toexpand CDW-G's product, services and solutions portfolio within eachsales channel, delivering products and services of increasing value topublic sector customers.

Joining CDW as an account manager in 1991, Rother has played aleadership role in growing the company's public sector subsidiary, CDWGovernment, Inc. (CDW-G) since its founding in 1998. Appointed asCDW-G's vice president of education and state and local sales in 2002,Rother has been integral to developing the company's public sectorvision and managing its sales force to drive success. She has improvedorganizational efficiency, enhanced coworker training and fostereddeeper relationships between CDW-G and its customers.

"A highly-effective leader, Chris is skilled at motivating oursales team to improve the customer experience, helping them to evolvefrom product purchasing to value-added services and comprehensive,business-focused IT solutions," said Jim Shanks, executive vicepresident of CDW Corporation. "This move expands her responsibilities,bringing the full impact of CDW-G's technology expertise, marketknowledge and industry-best partner base to bear on the pressingrequirements of our public sector customers."

Rother earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University ofIllinois at Chicago. In addition to fostering educational improvementsthrough her work at CDW-G, she contributes to the NIGP SupplierPartner Council, as well as the Associated Colleges of Illinois, whereshe is a member of the board. For a full biography and image of ChrisRother, please visit: http://newsroom.cdwg.com/executives/#Rother.

About CDW-G

CDW Government, Inc. (CDW-G), a wholly owned subsidiary of CDWCorporation (NASDAQ:CDWC), a FORTUNE 500 company, is a trustedtechnology advisor and solutions provider to federal, state and localgovernment agencies, as well as to educational institutions at alllevels. CDW-G responds with a sense of urgency to customer technologyneeds, delivering best-in-class solutions from top-name brands such asApple, Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Sony, Symantec, and Toshiba. CDW-Gfocuses on building strong customer relationships with itsknowledgeable account managers and technical specialists who provideextensive pre- and post-sales support.

For more information about CDW-G product offerings, procurementoptions, services and solutions, call 800-863-4239, or visit theCDW-G Web site at CDWG.com.