[LAW-LIB:55453] FW: Company Board of Director's - OLD/Respones

From: Ruth Gervais (RGervais@Polsinelli.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2008 - 11:12:34 PDT

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    Here are the responses from this request. Thanks for all those who
    responded; each really helped. At the end of these suggestions, I
    described how I did end up handling this:
     
    Did Moody's have a cross-listing of directors by name in that era?
     
    Another option, check with the Conference Board
    http://www.conference-board.org/ <http://www.conference-board.org/>
    they might be able to help.
      
    S&P has that directory of Officers and Directors but I don't know how
    far back it goes. Probably would need to go to a large public library.
    I don't know of anything online that would cover those years.
     
      
    For New York there is something called Directory of Directors in the
    City of New York and Tri-State Area. I think it goes back to 1898.
     
      
    This information is in the "Directors and Executives" volume of Standard
    & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives. If you
    look up the director's name, it will list what other boards the
    individual is on. It's been published since 1928. If you can't find
    this locally, the New York Public Library has an excellent research
    service who can take care of it.
     
     Another thing to consider is how much information companies were
    required to disclose back then. I seem to recall that way early SEC
    filings didn't have much in them
     
    I am not aware of a source where you can locate the other board
    memberships for directors of a company, 1959-1966. There are databases
    like Capital IQ, but I'm sure they don't go back to 1959 and you would
    have to subscribe to the entire platform. You may want to contact
    Disclosure or Moody's to find out if they have public company records
    available in a database for that time period. I doubt they converted
    the records, but I don' know. Perhaps an obituary would indicate past
    board memberships.

     

    The route I took that satisfied my requestor, was have our local
    university look up the individuals name (the requestor had these) on
    Marquis Who's Who. I have never used this source online myself, but it
    sounds like it is cumulative, covering many years and fairly straight
    forward. Out of the 50 or so names we needed information on, they
    located about 40. As part of the bios, they list the board of directors
    the individuals had been on. Thanks again for all the wonderful
    advice listed above

     

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    From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
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    Subject: [LAW-LIB:55391] Company Board of Director's - OLD

    Is there a resource where I can track names of the board of director's
    for public companies from 1959-1966s? I need to know if individual
    board members of a publicly traded company headquartered in New York
    during this time, were on boards of other companies. I assume this
    information would be in SEC filings, but I am unable to locate a
    searchable databse of filings from this time period. Any and all advice
    would be appreciated. Thanks,
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    Ruth R. Gervais
    Library Manager 700 W. 47th Street
    Suite 1000
    Kansas City, MO 64112
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    result?csz=Kansas+City%2C+MO+64112-1922&state=MO&uzip=64112&ds=n&name=&d
    esc=&ed=USAeAep_0TrzBt8LyYYjzFVWMk7wAUls_H7YuMWXAWR.qbVctlM_gHty_yeSTlcC
    ivOwDCiZJCtwAuBhyKEtAb2nm6nQ7VCb76ZFm06g4Lc-&zoomin=yes&BFKey=&mag=2>
                       
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