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Contact: Don is a senior member of the board of directors of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) and key editorial contributor for the recently released book "The New Investor Relations." A frequent speaker and moderator for IR seminars conducted by NIRI and the Nasdaq Stock market, Allen is considered to be one of the pre-eminent authorities on financial communications best practices. Allen will be assisting McQUERTER in establishing financial disclosure programs for agency clients who are publicly held, as well as pre-IPO companies who seek to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and exchange-based Governance guidelines prior to issuing stock in the public equity markets. "Many small companies are struggling to provide the exhaustive documentation that recent new SEC statutes demand, yet without further burdening the enterprise with additional expenses," noted agency CEO Gregory McQuerter. "Don has developed corporate governance and disclosure-compliance programs for numerous small and medium-sized enterprises, ensuring best-practices while limiting disclosure expense." Don also works with micro-, small- and mid-cap public companies to help them go beyond the tactical implementation of standard IR work to develop strategic programs that will help them enhance the company's valuation. Don has more than 30 years of IR and corporate communications experience with public companies, both inside corporations and as an agency counselor. He previously was director of corporate communications and investor relations for Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT), in Irvine, Calif. He earlier was director of corporate public and investor relations for FileNET Corp. (Nasdaq: FILE), a software developer based in Costa Mesa, Calif. For eight years before that he was director of public and investor relations for Wonderware Corporation (Nasdaq: WNDR), a software maker also based in Irvine. Previously, Allen was a PR and IR consultant for 14 years, specializing in high technology clients. His consultancy, the Allen Group, merged with Roberts, Mealer & Company in Santa Ana, Calif., in 1989. Before that he held corporate public relations and investor relations management posts with Xerox Corporation in New York, with Digital Equipment Corporation in Boston, and with General Automation in Anaheim. He began his career as a journalist with United Press International. He holds a BA degree from the University at Albany (N.Y.), has studied for his MBA at the University of Southern California and has completed the Advanced Investor Relations Program at the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University. Allen serves on the Board of Directors of the National Investor Relations Institute, based in Vienna, Virginia, and is a member of NIRI's Senior Roundtable. He is president of the Orange County (Calif.) chapter of NIRI and is a director of the chapter. He is a member and former director of the Orange County chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. He is chair of the Software & Technology Forum of the Orange County Council of the AeA (American Electronics Association) and is a member of the council's Executive Committee. Allen has been a guest lecturer for investor relations seminars conducted by the Nasdaq Stock Market. He also is an instructor and course developer in the Investor Relations Certificate program for the Management Extension department at the University of California, Irvine, as well as a web course developer and instructor for UCI's Distance Learning Program.
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— Don Allen, a nationally recognized expert on investor relations (IR) and financial communications best practices, has joined the McQUERTER team as a senior associate.