Companies are stockpiling cash at a historic rate. Given the unprecedented low interest rate environment, investors and analysts are increasingly asking: what are you doing with your cash? Companies must determine the most optimal uses of available cash, especially in today’s market. Does it make more sense to reinvest internally? Or to distribute to shareholders by distributing dividends? Or buying back shares? Both?

Join us for a timely discussion regarding uses of cash and the subsequent returns on share prices. Mr. Meierhoffer presents an objective study of the different stock returns following alternative use of cash decisions.

Mark Meierhoffer
Practice Leader
Senior Consultant
DeMarche Associates

Mr. Meierhoffer is the former Chief Financial Officer and senior vice president of finance for The Rival Company, a premier Kansas City-based manufacturer and distributor of household products. Prior to that position, Mr. Meierhoffer was senior vice president and chief operating officer for DeMarche. He also has served as vice president and international treasurer for Marion Merrell Dow, Inc., a global pharmaceutical firm, and managed that company's investor relations. He is now a principal of DeMarche and serves as a specialized consultant to DeMarche clients in its corporate finance and investor relation's practices.

Mr. Meierhoffer earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Missouri and an MBA from Rockhurst University. He is a member of the Financial Executives Institute, the American Institute of CPAs and the Missouri Society of CPAs. He serves on the University of Missouri Alumni Association National Board, is a member of the College of Business Strategic Development Board and the School of Accountancy Advisory Board. He also serves on the Finance and Technology committees for the city of Leawood, KS, and the Kansas City Community Blood Center Board of Directors.

IRO Program

All of us in investor relations - and at NIRI - recognize today's tough economic conditions. The Rocky Mountain NIRI chapter has a program in place to help support our members during these tough times. It is the IRO (Independent Resource Opportunity) program.

If your company does not reimburse you for attending NIRI meetings, or if you are not currently employed but want to network with other NIRI members and benefit from the educational programs, the IRO program is for you!

To qualify you must be an existing IRO (i.e., a practitioner) member or you must have been one within the past three years. On a first-come, first-served basis, you could be sponsored for $28 of the fee to attend the meeting. Therefore, if you are a member, normally paying $38 to attend, you would only pay $10. If you are a previous member attending now as a guest, rather than paying $55 to attend, you would pay only $27.

All you need to do is submit your confidential request for sponsorship to Heathe Cooper via phone at (303) 405-8326 or email at hcooper@curran-connors.com. Heathe will notify you whether or not you are one of the first five requests. You can be sponsored up to three times a year.

So don't let the fact that you may be unemployed, under-employed or not being reimbursed by your company keep you away from the NIRI Rocky Mountain Chapter meetings. Be one of the first five people to contact Heathe Cooper and you could be sponsored for the next NIRI meeting.

If you are not a current member and would like to join or find out more about NIRI Rocky Mountain please go to www.rockyniri.org

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