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The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced today that it will join with Dow Jones & Company to present a conference focused on director education on December 11, 2009 at the Metropolitan Club in New York.
The one-day conference, "The High Performance Director: Navigating 2010," will focus on timely developments including the compensation debate, the regulatory environment, activists in the boardroom, oversight models, and best practices for directors to utilize during challenging times. The goal of the conference is to provide useful insights to boards of directors, corporate secretaries, and private equity and corporate executives.
Confirmed speakers include: Ram Charan, Business Advisor, Speaker and Author; Martin Lipton, Founding Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Glenn H. Hutchins, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive, Silver Lake; and Ivan G. Seidenberg, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Verizon Communications, Incorporated.
"With this conference our goal was to bridge the gap between directors and executives and create a forum where together they can become more informed on the critical issues faced by boards and management," commented Bruce Aust, executive vice president of NASDAQ OMX. "Today our exchange offers Board support to our 3,700 listed companies and a population of close to 40,000 directors by delivering thought leadership and innovative solutions that facilitate broader transparency, mitigate risk and inspire better corporate governance. We are delighted to have teamed up with a recognized information and news leader like Dow Jones to support our efforts in the director education space and look forward to expanding our efforts in this type of service offering."
"By leveraging both companies' expertise and connections, we are able to convene the most influential executives from the boardroom and the C-suite for a day of in-depth discussions and networking," said Ken Andersen, managing director of events for Financial Information Services at Dow Jones. "We're pleased to have partnered with NASDAQ OMX on what promises to be an interesting and insightful event."
NASDAQ OMX's Board Practice group includes Directors Desk and BoardRecruiting and their goal is to offer the Board members effective services and resources that help them with the companies they serve.
Directors Desk, a NASDAQ OMX company, offers a complete turn-key, fully hosted online board management solution that helps companies reduce their Board-related expenses, improve Board effectiveness, increase security and realize quick return on investment. www.directorsdesk.com.
BoardRecruiting, a NASDAQ OMX product, is the first online board member recruitment portal where directors control who contacts them and boards have a cost-effective, time-efficient, better way to recruit board members www.broadrecruiting.com.
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