Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> October 1, 2004

ANDREW PROZES – REED ELSEVIER PLC

ANDREW PROZES serves on the Board of Directors of Reed Elsevier plc, and was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Reed Elsevier's LexisNexis Group in July 2000. In this capacity, he has responsibility for all of Reed Elsevier's information services and information based solutions to legal and business professionals on a global basis. LexisNexis Group products and services include the online legal, news and business information of LexisNexis, including its branded publishing companies, Butterworths, Tolley, Juris Classeur, Matthew Bender, Michie, Shepard's, and Martindale-Hubbell. Prior to joining Reed Elsevier, Mr. Prozes served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of West Group, a part of the Thomson Corporation. Before joining the Thomson Corporation, Mr. Prozes was Group President for Southam Inc., Canada's largest newspaper publishing company. Mr. Prozes began his business career in the computing services industry in Canada. He founded and served as CEO of MFS Limited, which developed systems and services for the Canadian financial industry. By 1980, MFS was the largest supplier of record-keeping services and software for the Canadian financial industry. Mr. Prozes has served on the Board of the Information Technology Association of Canada and the Canadian Newspaper Association, as well as holding the position of Chairman of the Information Industry Association in Washington, D.C. in 1995. Profile
TWST: Could you begin with a brief historical sketch of LexisNexis and a

picture of the things you're doing at the present time?

Mr. Prozes: As you well know, Reed Elsevier is our parent