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ProQuest Names Kurt Sanford CEO: Ann Arbor-based information and database providers ProQuest LLC Tuesday announced that Kurt Sanford will join the company as CEO and as a member of its board of directors on July 13. Sanford, a highly experienced information services executive, previously spent the past 14 years at LexisNexis, serving most recently as president of global operations for its global legal business. Sanford will succeed Marty Kahn, who has led ProQuest since it was acquired by Cambridge Information Group in 2007.  Kahn will become vice chairman of ProQuest's board and consult with ProQuest and its parent company CIG.  He will be based in CIG's New York office. Prior to his most recent LexisNexis position, Sanford, 53, was president and CEO of U.S. corporate and public markets for LexisNexis, overseeing the business, government and academic markets as well as the risk solutions business. Earlier, Sanford served as CEO of LexisNexis Asia Pacific and as the senior vice president for LexisNexis large law firm markets in the U.S., as well as holding other strategic and business development roles within the company. Before joining LexisNexis, Sanford was a consultant at Bain and Co., the global business strategy consulting firm, where he specialized in assisting technology, telecommunications, consumer products and financial service firms. Prior to that, he was a vice president of a diversified financial services firm and also served on active duty in the U.S. Army as a captain and member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps. Sanford earned an MBA, with distinction, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and received his JD, with honors, from Suffolk University Law School in Boston. He also graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. Kahn, 61, was previously chairman of OneSource Information Services Inc. He also served as chairman of Ovid Technologies Inc. and as chairman of Vista Information Solutions. Earlier in his career, Kahn served as president of BRS Information Technologies; general manager of the health professions division of McGraw-Hill; and as vice president of sales and marketing of the W.B. Saunders Co. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree from Yale College. More at www.proquest.com.

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