For Immediate Release: December 2005

Optimal Solutions Group's (Optimal) President and CEO, Dr. Mark Turner, received the Future 50 Award sponsored by Smart CEO Magazine during an evening event held at the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore, Md. The Future 50 Award recognizes 50 of the fastest growing companies in the Greater Baltimore area. Selection criteria for the Future 50 Award included annual revenue growth, number of employees, and length of time in business. Combined, t his year’s Future 50 list currently employs more than 4,200 people, up from 2,000 in 2002. The Future 50 will have combined more than $700 million in revenue in 2005, up from $211 million in 2002.

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Optimal Solutions Group, LLC, is a minority-owned economic and policy analysis consulting firm in the Baltimore-Annapolis-Washington, DC area. We are committed to supplying insightful program evaluation, cost-benefit and effectiveness analyses, custom econometric modeling, and market analyses for decisionmakers in both the public and private sectors.

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OPTIMAL has served the needs of numerous governmental and commercial clients, including federal and state agencies, community-based organizations, business associations, and law firms.

For more information, contact Mark Turner, 443.451.7060 or mturner@optimalsolutionsgroup.com.