Largest Global Investor Relations Event Takes Place In June:
The NIRI Annual Conference 

Thought leaders to share financial disclosure best practice, investor, regulatory and management perspectives in Orlando, June 12-15, 2011

VIENNA, VA – The world’s largest gathering of investor relations (IR) professionals is the 2011 National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) Annual Conference in Orlando from June 12-15. Inspired by the increasingly challenging global environment, IR professionals from around the world will discuss new regulatory and governance requirements, rapidly changing capital markets, the evolving media landscape and other timely topics at this event.

“Since its inauguration in 1970, the NIRI Annual Conference has become the ‘must attend’ annual event for all investor relations professionals,” said NIRI President and CEO, Jeffrey D. Morgan. “With the theme, Leadership in a Changing World, the 2011 NIRI Annual Conference will provide IR practitioners with the education and contacts necessary to tackle the ever-increasing challenges of today’s global environment.”

“NIRI takes pride in offering the best in IR professional development and networking year after year,” Morgan continued. “We have our members to thank for the continued success of this event. Conference wouldn’t be possible without the commitment and tireless efforts of our 2011 Annual Conference Committee led by Co-Chairs Sally Curley, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, Cardinal Health, Inc., and Melissa Plaissance, Senior Vice President, Finance and Investor Relations, Safeway Inc.”

The list of over 100 outstanding speakers features: George Barrett, Chairman and CEO, Cardinal Health, Inc.; Adam Bryant, "Corner Office" Columnist and Author, New York Times; Michael Darda, Chief Economist and Market Strategist, MKM Partners, LLC; and Sam Levenson, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, Sony Corporation of America.

Other speakers from among the more than 40 sessions are drawn from public company executive management and the fields of asset management, equity analysis, securities law, corporate governance, capital markets and more. To see the full list, please visit www.niri.org/ac_speakers.

Editorial media are welcome to attend the Annual Conference – for press passes please contact Matt Brusch, Vice President, Communication, mbrusch@niri.org, (703) 506-3574.

For more information about the NIRI 2011 Annual Conference, please visit: www.niri.org/conference.
 
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.