Institutional Shareholder Services Names New Head of Marketing

Nancy Adler to Lead Marketing and Join ISS’ Executive Committee

NEW YORK--()--Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, announced today that it has hired Nancy Adler as Head of Marketing. Based in New York, Ms. Adler reports to ISS’ Head of Business, Stephen Harvey, and is an Executive Director and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

“Nancy brings a wealth of valuable business insight and client-focused experience and we are delighted to welcome her to ISS,” said Stephen Harvey. “Nancy joins our senior management team at a critical time, as marketing is a key component of our growth strategy. We are innovating in all of our business areas; positioning our brand to sustain and accelerate the current growth of the firm and looking to roll out new products and services in response to client feedback.”

Prior to joining ISS, Ms. Adler was Head of Sales and Marketing for Crain's New York Business, a leading New York business publication. Earlier in her career, Ms. Adler worked for 9 years at Dow Jones & Company Inc., in a number of senior roles, which included responsibility for sales, strategy and marketing for Dow Jones International’s Global Sales division. She led the sales organization for the Global Wall Street Journal (U.S., Europe, Asia, Latin America), WSJ.com, Far Eastern Economic Review, Caijing, Vedomosti, Style Journal Europe and Fashion Journal Asia.

About ISS

ISS, founded in 1985 as Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., is the world's leading provider of proxy advisory and corporate governance solutions to financial market participants. ISS' services include objective proxy research and analysis, end-to-end proxy voting and distribution solutions, turnkey securities class-action claims management, and reliable governance data and modeling tools. More than 1,700 clients rely on ISS' expertise to help them make informed corporate governance decisions. ISS is located in financial centers worldwide and is a subsidiary of MSCI Inc., a leading provider of investment decision support tools to investors globally. For more information, please visit www.issgovernance.com.

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Contacts

ISS media contact:
Sarah Ball, +44 (0)207 618 2275
sarah.ball@issgovernance.com

Contacts

ISS media contact:
Sarah Ball, +44 (0)207 618 2275
sarah.ball@issgovernance.com