Andrew Prozes

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.