NIRI Elects New Board Chairman and Four Directors

Business Wire,  March 24, 2008  

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Nicole McIntosh is director of investor relations at Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc., Overland Park, Kansas, and is responsible for all aspects of the company's investor relations program. McIntosh established the firm's first formal investor relations program in 1999, and began her career at Waddell & Reed in corporate reporting and analysis one year prior to her appointment to investor relations. Before Waddell & Reed, McIntosh served as a staff accountant for six years at a major oil company in Eastern Canada. McIntosh is president of NIRI's Kansas City Chapter, having served on the Chapter's board since 2000. She was a member of the NIRI Annual Conference committee for two years, and was awarded NIRI's annual scholarship to the University of Michigan's Theory and Practice of Investor Relations program in 2007. McIntosh holds a Business and Accounting degree from Canada, a bachelor's degree in management with Magna Cum Laude honors from the University of Ottawa, and an M.B.A. from Webster University.

David Prichard is vice president of investor relations and corporate communications for Corn Products International, Westchester, Illinois, and has more than 20 years of investor, shareholder and financial communications experience spanning numerous companies and sectors. Prior to joining Corn Products International in 2005, he was director, investor relations and corporate communications for Modine Manufacturing Company. Prichard has also held senior investor and corporate communications positions with IMC Global Inc., Vigoro Corp., Equity Group Investments, Mallinckrodt Inc., Abbott Laboratories and GTE Corporation. Prichard served as president of NIRI's Chicago Chapter and is a board member. He is a member of the NIRI Senior Roundtable and is a charter member of NIRI's Roundtable for Strategic Communication and Reputation Management. Prichard is a cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in communications, and has completed The University of Michigan's Theory and Practice of Investor Relations program.

About NIRI

NIRI is the professional association of corporate officers and investor relations consultants responsible for communications among corporate management, shareholders, securities analysts and other financial publics. NIRI's 4,400 members represent nearly 2,100 publicly held companies and $5.4 trillion in stock market capitalization. For more information on NIRI, please visit www.niri.org.

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