My intuition says that they're both correct.

Google's Ngram viewer shows that "excited to" is the traditional form, and "excited about" caught on in the 19th century, overtaking "excited to" between the world wars. It's now the more common form, but "excited to" is by no means dead.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=excited+to%2C+excited+about&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Karl

On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Martha Galphin wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> What are your thoughts on the wording in the following announcement? 
> 
> WE ARE EXCITED TO WELCOME BNA TO THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY!
> 
> I would have written "excited about welcoming" rather than "excited to welcome."
> 
> Martha
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