Corporate Board Member Announces Knowledge Partnerships with NIRI and the Society
March 17, 2011 04:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time
“This Week in the Boardroom” Webcast to Feature Investor Relations and Corporate Secretaries Role in Board/Shareholder Relationship
NASHVILLE, Tenn. & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Corporate Board Member, a wholly owned subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), this day announced that the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) and the Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals (the Society) will become knowledge partners for Corporate Board Member’s and NYSE Euronext’s “This Week in the Boardroom,” a weekly on-demand webcast program designed to educate board members and C-suite executives on topics and issues that impact their operational and strategic decisions. Through this arrangement, NIRI and the Society will provide relevant content and experts covering key boardroom issues throughout the year.
“bringing the Society’s practical expertise on topics such as board portals and director engagement will add a new dimension for viewers.”
“NIRI is pleased to bring the investor relations perspective directly to corporate board members through this new knowledge partnership,” said NIRI President and CEO Jeffrey D. Morgan. “We recognize the involvement of Corporate Board Member with sitting board members and appreciate its vested interest in the investor relations (IR) function’s role in the board/shareholder relationship and with regard to future trends.”
“With all the regulation, nonbinding votes, and the need to know who your shareholders are, investor relations and shareholder communications has taken center stage. The partnership with NIRI lets us address those issues head-on during the show with knowledge partners who are actually practicing experts in the field,” said Corporate Board Member President TK Kerstetter. Additionally, he said, the role of the corporate secretary in building effective boards has increased; therefore, “bringing the Society’s practical expertise on topics such as board portals and director engagement will add a new dimension for viewers.”
“The Society is proud to be associated with Corporate Board Member and NYSE Euronext in its educational efforts. We believe that our members can bring practical knowledge to the viewers of ‘This Week in the Boardroom’ and will be interested viewers themselves on the important and timely issues covered in the webcasts,” said Society President and CEO Ken Bertsch.
About the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI)
Founded in 1969, NIRI (www.NIRI.org) is the professional association of corporate officers and investor relations consultants responsible for communication among corporate management, shareholders, securities analysts and other financial community constituents. NIRI is the largest professional investor relations association in the world with more than 3,500 members representing 2,000 publicly held companies and $5.4 trillion in stock market capitalization.
About the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals
About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company’s exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext’s equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the world’s equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world’s second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index and Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.
About Corporate Board Member
Corporate Board Member, an NYSE Euronext company, is the leading information resource for senior officers and directors of publicly traded corporations, massive private companies, and Global 1000 firms. The quarterly publication, Corporate Board Member magazine, provides readers with decision-making tools to deal with the strategic and corporate governance challenges confronting their boards. Corporate Board Member further extends its governance leadership through an on-line resource center, conferences, roundtables, and timely research. The magazine maintains the most comprehensive, up-to-date database of directors and officers serving on boards of publicly traded companies listed with NYSE Euronext and The NASDAQ OMX Group Inc stock exchanges. www.boardmember.com
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