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Who are the company's directors and officers?

Seeking information about a company that a particular person works for but for which you do not know the name can be difficult using general directories. Most do not necessarily index the names of chief officers or products even though this is often the only clues that researchers have to work with.

Luckily, there are directories dedicated specifically to providing this type of information. Deciding on which of these to use will be easier if you are aware of the type of organizational structure that the company operates under (ie. if there is a single owner or the types of managing executives).

Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives
(near McGraw Desk; *R-HG4057 .A4
or Standard & Poor's Net Advantage in EIC)
Vol. 1 includes entries for 55,000+ public and private US companies. Vol. 2 contains biographies of directors and executives. Geographical, SIC classification, and Corporate family group indexes available.

Dun's Million Dollar Directory
(near McGraw; *R-HC102.D8 or EIC)
Great for finding information about a specific company or companies with similar attributes. Contains over 1,300,000 U.S. leading public and private business records which can be searched for executives by name, company, title and/or biography.

Index to Marquis Who's Who publications
(McGraw Desk; *R-Z5301 .M37a .CT104)
Index which allows you to search by the name of the executive's name in order to find out which Marquis publication has a biographical profile on that person. Profiles usually include career histories where company names will appear.