National Investor Relations Institute Member Benefit Webinar Best Practices in Non-Deal Roadshows August 4, p.m.

Transcription

1 National Investor Relations Institute Member Benefit Webinar Best Practices in Non-Deal Roadshows August 4, p.m. ET SPEAKERS David Dragics Senior vice President, Investor Relations CACI International 1100 N. Glebe Road Arlington, VA Phone: Fax: ddragics@caci.com Muriel S. Lange Investor Relations Manager American Water 1025 Laurel Oak Road Voorhees, NJ Phone: Fax: muriel.lange@amwater.com John Hyre Director, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications The Commercial Vehicle Group 7800 Walton Parkway New Albany, OH Phone: Fax: john.hyre@cvgrp.com Audrey Mickahail Senior Manager, Research National Investor Relations Institute 8020 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 250 Vienna, VA Phone: Fax: amickahail@niri.org Katharine W. Kenny Vice President, Investor Relations CarMax, Inc Tuckahoe Creek Parkway Richmond, VA Phone: katharine_kenny@carmax.com

2 Biographies Dave Dragics is senior vice president, investor relations for CACI International Inc, an information technology company with fiscal 2009 revenue of approximately $2.7 billion. He joined CACI in 1998 to manage the company s overall investor relations program. CACI s investor relations area is the primary interface between the company and its shareholders and members of the investment community, providing information and coordination to meet the needs of the analytical community and current and potential investors in CACI common stock. During his tenure, Dragics has constructed and directed a proactive investor relations program that resulted in CACI s institutional shareholder base growing from 64 firms to over 220; sell-side coverage growing from three analysts to 21; and market capitalization growing from just under $200 million to over $1.6 billion in less than three years. He also instituted a program that increased the number of CACI executives that present at conferences and meet with investors from three to ten. Before joining CACI, Dragics had over 25 years of experience in investor relations, finance, strategic planning, marketing and operations in banking, financial services, aviation services, and high technology firms that support government and industry. His experience also includes serving as senior business operations manager on large commercial outsourcing contracts as well as being a business manager at the corporate level overseeing operating activities. His experience in the investor relations area and investment community, prior to joining CACI, includes directing and managing the investor relations programs for two NYSElisted companies, where he won awards for annual reports he developed and produced. He has been a registered representative, with experience in both the retail and institutional segments of the market. He also has ten years of strategic planning and merger and acquisition experience in financial institutions. Dragics is a retired colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, having served 26 years of both active and reserve duty in military intelligence. He is a Vietnam veteran, has commanded two units, and was called back to active duty for Operation Desert Storm, where he directed operations for the Defense Intelligence Agency s Desert Storm Task Force. He has studied the Middle East for over 27 years and has authored classified studies on military capabilities of several countries in that region. Dragics holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration with a major in finance from The Ohio State University and an M.B.A. in finance and marketing from the University of Pittsburgh. John Hyre joined CVG in March 2007 as the company s director of investor relations and corporate communications.

3 He previously served as senior vice president at Dix & Eaton, an eighty-person national investor and public relations firm located in Cleveland, Ohio. Previous to that Hyre spent more than 17 years working in various investor relations, corporate communications and crisis management positions with Roadway Corporation, a $3 billion international transportation company. He also has worked more than twenty years in various news media positions. Hyre has counseled senior management of major public companies and other organizations on a wide variety of strategic communications issues, drawing upon his extensive background in corporate communications, investor relations, print and broadcast media as well as experience teaching at the university level. He has broad experience working with Wall Street analysts and others in the financial community; with attorneys on issues such as corporate transactions, labor negotiations, crises and employee issues. He also has experience working with the news and trade media as well as regulators and government officials on issues management. As a Spanish speaker he worked with Roadway on business development in Latin America. Hyre led Roadway s communications efforts when the company was spun off from its former parent and subsequently through several acquisitions. He served as the company s primary spokesperson and had responsibility for investor relations, shareholder relations, crisis communications and media relations. He was also heavily involved in government affairs including issues campaigns related to legislation on both the state and national levels. Hyre earned the International Public Relations Network s Project of the Year award for their effective crisis communications program after 55 Oscar statuettes were stolen from Roadway s Los Angeles loading dock shortly before the Academy Awards ceremony. He was also presented with Vice President Al Gore s Reinventing Government Award for work he did with Mexican customs officials. At Dix and Eaton Hyre worked with a broad array of clients including Northwest Airlines, UnitedHealth Group, Designer Shoe Warehouse, BJ Wholesale Clubs, Jackson Hewitt Tax Services, Travel Centers of America, Yellow Roadway Corporation, Noveon, Lubrizol, the OM Group and the Cleveland Orchestra. Prior to joining Roadway, Hyre worked in both print and broadcast media, including management positions in television news. He also served as adjunct faculty teaching communications, mass media and media criticism at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. He served as president of the Cleveland/Northern Ohio and Central Ohio chapters of NIRI, is a member of NIRI s Senior Roundtable and served on NIRI s Speakers Bureau. A graduate of Youngstown State University, Hyre has a master s degree in communications that included international study at Oxford, England.

4 Katharine Kenny joined CarMax as assistant vice president, investor relations in October 2006 and was promoted to vice president, investor relations in April Previously, she served in similar positions at Massey Energy Company, also headquartered in Richmond, Virginia and at Ruddick Corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina. She began her career in investor relations in 1993 with Pillowtex Corporation in Dallas, Texas. Kenny is a graduate of Kenyon College and received her M.B.A. from Cleveland State University in She served as president of the Richmond Chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) from September 2004 through May Muriel S. Lange is investor relations manager at American Water Works Company, Inc., the largest investor-owned U.S. water and recycled water utility, with a $3 billion market cap, serving nearly 16 million customers in 32 states and Ontario, Canada. Since joining AWK in 2008 prior to its initial public offering, she has been responsible for the design, build and execution of a tiered targeting and investor communication strategy and is designed to increase long-term holders in a focused retail program. She is responsible for SEC and Exchange compliance training of executives and senior management. Previously, Lange served as director of investor relations and corporate communications at American Financial Realty Trust where she directed its investor initiatives and strategy from its IPO through its merger. She served earlier as director of investor relations at Verticalnet, Inc., one of the Internet Capital Group startup companies, and prior to joining Verticalnet, she served at Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. in investor relations, accounting and marketing, and as director of promotion at Oxmoor House Publishing, a division of Time Warner, Inc. A member of the National Investor Relations Institute Senior Roundtable, she has held various positions on the board of the Philadelphia Chapter of National Investor Relations Institute over the past 12 years. Lange holds a bachelors degree from the Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. with international perspective from Arcadia University, where she has written and conducted its first undergraduate class in investor relations and is currently president of the board of Arcadia University Business Alumni Association. Audrey Mickahail joined the NIRI communications team in December 2007 as senior manager of research. She manages NIRI s formal research program including quantitative and qualitative research and analysis. She is also tasked with the development of a research agenda and the creation of policies and processes related to NIRI research. With more than ten years of research experience across a broad range of research methodologies, Mickahail has built and collaborated on a number of rich and unique

5 models for analyzing and conveying information. She began her career as a research analyst at Gartner, in the Local Area Networking (LAN) research and advisory service. She was also an information technology industry analyst in the business applications space, focusing her efforts on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and supply chain software. In addition to these more qualitative methodologies, she expanded her research repertoire by rejoining Gartner via acquisition focusing on primary research management, after working at other IT advisory firms (SPEX, META Group). Mickahail earned a bachelor s degree in American Studies from Georgetown University. **************