| December 11, 2000 Verizon Chairman Charles Lee To Keynote Hunt-Scanlon's "Achieving Human Capital Advantage" Conference in February Stamford, CT, December 11, 2000 - Hunt-Scanlon Advisors, the nation's leader in providing market intelligence and online information resources to senior-level executives, human resources and executive recruiting professionals, announced today that Charles R. Lee, Chairman and Co-CEO of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), has been selected as the FORTUNE keynote speaker for the "Achieving Human Capital Advantage Forum" to be held February 7th and 8th in New York City at The Waldorf-Astoria. As Chairman and Co-CEO of the largest provider of wireline and wireless communications services in the country, Mr. Lee recognizes the value of human capital in today's new economy. Through the successful integration of Bell Atlantic and GTE, Verizon has emerged as a worldwide leader of advanced communications services, thanks to the efforts of over 260,000 employees working in over 40 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. Drawing upon his recent experiences during this transformational event, Mr. Lee will share his personal strategies for building an elite senior staff in a presentation entitled, "The CEO as Chief Recruiting Officer", on Day 2 of the conference. The two-day symposium is designed to help HR professionals, senior-level executives, executive recruiters and leaders of emerging growth companies understand the importance of human capital as a source for competitive advantage. Senior executives and chief executives from companies including IBM, GE Capital, PepsiCo, UBS Warburg, Accel Partners, CareerEngine, Christian & Timbers, efinanceworks, General Atlantic Partners, Heidrick & Struggles International, Korn/Ferry International, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ninth House Networks, Russell Reynolds Associates, Saba and Watson Wyatt Worldwide will share new thinking and the winning strategies they are embracing to gain the competitive edge. Among the presentations to be discussed: The State of the Art in Talent Seeking; Defining Human Capital Advantage; Talent Agents and Hired Guns; Management Assessment: How to Identify Your Talent Within; and What Makes You the "Employer of Choice" in the New Economy. For more information on the conference or to register online, visit www.hunt-scanlonconferences.com or call Dean Fichtner, Chief Marketing Officer at (800) 477-1199. ABOUT HUNT-SCANLON Hunt-Scanlon Corporation (www.hunt-scanlon.com) is the leading authority on the executive search and online recruiting industries, providing a range of information products and services relating to executive search, staffing, Internet recruiting, human resources and corporate diversity. These include daily real time newswires, the monthly newsletters Executive Search Review, Online Recruiting Strategist and Diversity Monitor, as well as directories of executive recruiters and Select Guides to executives in six functional staff areas (top management, human resources, finance, information technology, sales and marketing). Hunt-Scanlon is a widely quoted news source frequently referenced in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Investors Business Daily, Bloomberg Newswires, The Financial Times and Crain's. Through a separate operating unit, Hunt-Scanlon Advisors, the firm also provides comprehensive market intelligence studies, market trend surveys and forecast indicator reports on the executive search and online recruiting industries to major corporations. The company's flagship recruitment portal for senior executives, hunt-scanlon.com, is a growing online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of recruiting services worldwide. Within this portal, Hunt-Scanlon operates four leading web sites, including executiveselect.com, recruiterlink.com, diversityonline.com and leadersonthemove.com. A third operating unit of Hunt-Scanlon, the Institute for Corporate Diversity, is the leading diversity database and research publisher in the U.S. Hunt-Scanlon acquired the diversity institute in 1999 and now publishes Diversity Monitor, the monthly trade newsletter, as well as Diversity in Corporate America, the largest diversity executive reference guide in the U.S. Contact Information:
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