Clark/Bardes Holdings Adds Ken Kies to Its Advisory Board.Business Editors BARRINGTON, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2000 Clark/Bardes Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CLKB), a national firm providing executive compensation and benefit services to U.S. corporations, including banks and healthcare organizations, today announced it has named Kenneth J. Kies, LL.M LL.M Legum Magister (Master of Laws) ., J.D. to its Advisory Board. Kies, 48, joins a distinguished group of professionals from business, academia and military who comprise the Clark/Bardes Advisory Board. He is currently managing partner of Pricewaterhouse Cooper's 225-person Washington National Tax Services office in Washington, D.C. Kies leads its Federal Tax Policy Group, which provides sophisticated strategic and technical tax services on client-specific legislative projects and coalition efforts. Kies' many contacts in the public and private sector will benefit Clark/Bardes' management in the legislative and regulatory arena. "We are extremely pleased to gain Ken Kies' business insight," said Tom Wamberg, chairman, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Clark/Bardes Holdings, Inc. "Ken's experience will enable us do our job better--helping companies keep their best people. I look forward to working with Ken in this new relationship." Prior to joining Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Kies was Chief of Staff of the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, where he reported to the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and Chairman of the Ways and Means WAYS AND MEANS. In legislative assemblies there is usually appointed a committee whose duties are to inquire into, and propose to the house, the ways and means to be adopted to raise funds for the use of the government. This body is called the committee of ways and means. Committee. Kies earned his bachelor's degree from Ohio University Ohio University, main campus at Athens; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1804, opened 1809 as the first college in the Old Northwest. There are additional campuses at Chiillicothe, Lancaster, and Zanesville, as well as facilities throughout the state. , juris doctor's degree from The Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. School of Law and master's in law degree from Georgetown University Georgetown University, in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.; Jesuit; coeducational; founded 1789 by John Carroll, chartered 1815, inc. 1844. Its law and medical schools are noteworthy, and its archives are especially rich in letters and manuscripts by and Law School of Taxation. Founded in 1967, Clark/Bardes Holdings is a national firm with expertise in executive benefit design, funding and plan administration. With more than 2,800 corporate, healthcare and banking clients, the company's primary purpose is helping companies keep their best people. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this news release are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend" and similar expressions as they relate to the Company or its management, identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of the Company's management as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company's management. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, such as difficulties associated with changes in tax legislation, dependence on key producers, the Company's dependence on persistency of existing business, credit risk related to renewal revenue, acquisition risks, competitive factors and pricing pressures, dependence on certain insurance companies, changes in legal and regulatory requirements Regulatory requirements are part of the process of drug discovery and drug development. Regulatory requirements describe what is necessary for a new drug to be approved for marketing in any particular country. and general economic conditions. Such statements reflect the current views of the Company's management with respect to future events and are subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity of the Company. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this paragraph. Further information may be obtained at the Company's Internet site: http://www.clarkbardes.com. |
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