MARTIN R. de LAURAL is Senior Vice President of Investor and Corporate
Relations for Stewart Enterprises, Inc. Mr. de Laural joined Stewart
Enterprises in 1977 and has served in several management capacities for
the company. His most recent promotion in January 2004 expanded Mr. de
Laural’s investor relations responsibilities to include oversight of
the Stewart Resource Center (SRC) as well as the company’s Custom
Funeral Planning (CFP) business development project. Mr. De Laural also
manages the company’s acquisition and divestiture of businesses. His
first 12 years were devoted to the marketing of Stewart’s design and
construction services in various sales and management roles within the
Sales Engineering Department. In 1989, as Stewart was experiencing
continued growth, primarily through acquisition, Mr. de Laural assumed
the position of Director, and then in 1992, Vice President of the
Corporate Development Department, which was responsible for the
administration of the company’s acquisition activities. In this area,
his duties included the development and implementation of strategic
marketing plans geared toward the acquisition of businesses in the death
care industry in order to achieve corporate expansion goals. In December
1995, Mr. de Laural was named Vice President of Investor Relations, and
asked to create a department that would better organize and manage the
marketing of the company’s investment story to various constituencies
within the investment community.
