Since 1993, when Frederick Bermudez joined the media relations team at Salt River Project, he has demonstrated the ability to thrive in an environment in which responsibilities increase. He currently serves as manager of Investor Communication for PNM Resources, an energy holding company based in Albuquerque, N.M. Frederick has been a key contact for buy- and sell-side analysts and serves as the media spokesperson regarding all financial aspects of the company. He has planned and executed successful investor marketing road shows in the United States and seven European countries, and spearheaded IR communications efforts for various acquisitions, including the purchase of three power plants valued at $1.4 billion.

He is the author of the company’s award-winning annual reports, financial-related news releases, earnings conference call scripts and executive speeches to shareholders. He also manages the company’s corporate Web site. In 2009 and 2010, he chaired the Communications Subcommittee for the National Institute of Investor Relations’ Annual Conference. He also has served in various planning roles for conferences and meetings held by the Edison Electric Institute.

Prior to joining PNM Resources’ investor relations team, Frederick served as the company’s Director of Corporate Communication and was responsible for overall corporate communication strategy. In that role, Frederick successfully positioned the company as responsible and honest during the disclosure of employee misjudgments after a near-fatal natural gas explosion in Santa Fe. His strategic, proactive approach to this issue gained acclaim by the International Association of Business Communicators and the Public Relations Society of America. His work also was highlighted as a corporate best practice in the 2006 book “The High Purpose Company: The Truly Responsible (and Highly Profitable) Firms That Are Changing Business Now.”

Before joining PNM Resources in 2001, Frederick served in various communication and management roles during an eight-year span for Salt River Project and its affiliate, New West Energy. He has 18 years of experience in the energy industry after having been a print journalist in Cincinnati and Phoenix.
For the past four years, Frederick has been involved with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team-In-Training, completing four marathons and five half-marathons while raising more than $20,000. He also has served on the LLS El Paso-New Mexico Board of Trustees.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from The Ohio State University and a master’s degree in Mass Communication from Arizona State University.

David Olson was most recently senior vice president, Corporate Communications and an executive officer of Health Net, Inc., one of the nation’s largest publicly traded managed health care companies. Mr. Olson has broad experience ranging from investors relations to crisis and financial communications with an especially deep expertise in the health care sector.

At Health Net, Mr. Olson was responsible for the company's investor relations function and internal and external communications, and also oversaw government relations and charitable contributions. He was previously vice president, Investor and Public Relations, for Health Systems International, Inc. (HSI), one of Health Net’s predecessor companies. Prior to joining HSI in 1994, he was vice president, Corporate Communications for National Medical Enterprises, Inc. (NME), having joined NME in 1989 as director of Shareholder Communications.

Previously he was a vice president with a leading investor relations firm, and served more than five years with FCS Laboratories, Inc., as director of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations.

He began his career in New York with Carl Byoir and Associates, the J. Walter Thompson Company and Burson Marsteller.

Mr. Olson is a member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) Senior Roundtable and has served on the NIRI Board of Directors. He serves on the Board of Trustees for Rolling Hills Preparatory School and the Board of the Children’s Burn Foundation. Mr. Olson holds a B.A. in English from Washington and Lee University.

Lauren Young is the personal finance editor at Thomson Reuters, where she is developing personal finance coverage for ThomsonReuters.com and other platforms. She joined Reuters in April, after serving as the TurboTax Deductionista. She previously worked as a writer at BusinessWeek from 2003 to 2009, covering all aspects of personal finance. Before joining BusinessWeek in 2003, Young had a similar beat as a senior writer at SmartMoney. She also covered mutual funds and capital markets for Dow Jones News for three years and was a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal. Young is a 1989 honors graduate of Penn State University, and she received her masters in journalism from Northwestern University in 1993. She served as the president of the Medill Club of New York City for six years and was awarded the 2003 Northwestern University Alumni Association Service Award.