(Charleston, SC) – In addition to eGroup being a corporate sponsor of The Charleston Digital Corridor Foundation’s second annual Innovator's 5K run (ifive:K) on April 17th 2008, eGroup employees laced up their running shoes and participated in the fun as a company. Open to runners and walkers, the iFive:k started and finished at the Charleston Maritime Center, with a post-race celebration immediately following on the harbor.

An official 6 member team comprised of Ben Gaddy, Chris Hogan, Mike Carter, Mike Hall, Gunnar Berger, and Will Turbeville represented eGroup under the name “Serious Competitors", and raced their way to an impressive 2nd place finish in the challenge against other 6 member teams. Ben Gaddy also took 2nd place among the males in his age group race-wide, and eGroup as a whole received the “Team Spirit Award” for its collective enthusiasm during the event.<!--more-->

Mike Carter, eGroup principal consultant, had this to say after the inaugural event in 2007, “At the iFive:k, we had an exclusive opportunity to get out and unite as a team in the presence of other like-minded business professionals. The setting was amazing. It felt like a high-touch, members-only event, where the participants were catered to and the venue was the sun setting across downtown historic Charleston and the Battery. The iFive:k was the perfect race, but we’ve come to expect nothing less from the Charleston Digital Corridor.” The feeling generated by this year’s event was no different, as it proved to be yet another memorable team bonding and networking experience set against the backdrop of a perfect Charleston evening. 

The Charleston Digital Corridor donated a portion of the proceeds raised to the Burke High School Scholarship Fund. This donation was earmarked for a student seeking higher education in a technology related field.

eGroup plans to both sponsor and participate in the 3rd Annual ifive:K race and networking event to be held on April 16, 2009. 

ABOUT EGROUP eGroup provide technology solutions for serious competitors. Specifically, eGroup specializes in IT infrastructure design, Enterprise storage and backup strategies including Disaster Preparedness, data centralization and secure access solutions, network security, and secure LAN/WAN/Wireless architectures. eGroup's solutions combine robust high- availability and performance with secure information access. These solutions enable customers to efficiently execute revenue-driving roles, and achieve the goal of cutting the organization's acquisition and on-going support costs. eGroup understands that investment-oriented professionals must focus on making sound business decisions that provide significant returns. eGroup provides the thought leadership and expertise for customers to ensure that their technology investments continue to strengthen their competitive advantage in the marketplace. After all, a company's success hinges on making critical business decisions that must be supported by its IT systems. By architecting high performance networking and computing platforms, and delivering the industry-proven systems engineering and application development expertise, eGroup helps companies make confident decisions. To learn more, visit <a href="http://www.eGroup-us.com">www.eGroup-us.com</a>.

ABOUT CHARLESTON DIGITAL CORRIDOR The Digital Corridor is a creative effort to attract, nurture and promote Charleston's knowledge economy through a combination of technology enabled initiatives and business incentives, private business support and member-driven programming. To learn more, visit <a href="http://www.charlestondigitalcorridor.com">www.charlestondigitalcorridor.com</a>.

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