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November 27, 2007: Pre-Dinner Forum and Dinner Presentation

Pre-Dinner Forum: 4:30-5:30 PM

Topic: Dun & Bradstreet Focus Group: What Tools Do You Need to Identify and Evaluate Global Suppliers?
Facilitator: David Ingerman, Leader of Product Innovation
Sponsor: Dun & Bradstreet

D&B is interested in pursuing additional ways to help professionals in the purchasing space identify and evaluate potential suppliers and is interested in gathering input from NAPM-New York members during this unique focus group opportunity.

D&B (NYSE:DNB, www.DNB.com) is the worlds leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses, enabling companies to Decide with Confidence® for over 165 years. D&B's global commercial database contains more than 115 million business records. The database is enhanced by D&Bs proprietary DUNSRight® Quality Process, which provides our customers with quality business information. This quality information is the foundation of our global solutions that customers rely on to make critical business decisions.

Customers use D&B Risk Management Solutions to mitigate credit risk, increase cash flow and drive increased profitability; D&B Sales & Marketing Solutions to increase revenue from new and existing customers; D&B E-Business Solutions to convert prospects into clients faster by enabling business professionals to research companies, executives and industries; and D&B Supply Management Solutions to increase cash by generating ongoing savings from our customers suppliers and by protecting our customers from serious financial, operational and regulatory risk.

Dinner Presentation: 6:00 PM

Topic: How To Bring Value to Internal Customers
Speaker: James V. Kelly, Jr., Principal and Chief Executive Officer, JVKellyGroup, Inc.

With streamlined processes and tighter controls, how do we deliver additional value to your internal customers? Whether it is with increased visibility into your Supply Chain or demand management intelligence on purchased services, we will explore how you can leverage your investment through the use of inter-active dashboards at your internal clients desktop. Imagine providing real knowledge before a decision is made. Concepts discussed will be managing with the right metrics, change management and distributed intelligence.

As CEO of JVKG, James Kelly is extremely active in understanding and charting the course of major corporations in expense management solutions. Mr. Kelly was formerly Managing Director of Global eSourcing at Deutsche Bank. He has significant expertise in using metrics to increase purchasing performance; process reengineering through process mapping; contract negotiation and supplier management utilizing a balanced scorecard approach. Previously Mr. Kelly was a Team Leader in the Sourcing and Strategic Relations practice area at Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group/DRT Systems. Prior to that he was Vice President of US Purchasing Operations at Citibank. Mr. Kelly is a featured speaker at seminars concerning eSourcing and how to measure its return on investment. He is also a former President of the National Association of Purchasing Management New York and is a graduate of Manhattan College.

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