KMKC Vice President to be Headliner at National
Insurance Industry Conference

Cincinnati, March 10, 2003- KMK Consulting Company is proud to announce that Tom Hayes, Vice President, will be a principal speaker at the IVANS® E-Commerce Xchange to be held in Tampa, Florida, April 2-4, one of the insurance industry’s premier national conferences. Tom, with his extensive, twenty-five year experience as a leading executive in the property-casualty insurance industry, will discuss issues facing insurance companies and agencies as they consider growth strategies and mergers and acquisitions.

Tom leads KMK Consulting’s Risk and Insurance Services Team which works with management to reduce insurance costs and minimize risk exposures. The team analyzes all aspects of a company’s insurance portfolio by providing risk and claims management services, benefit plan design, risk retention analysis, corporate structure assessment, vendor relationships, and policy coordination and purchasing.

The conference will gather insurers, independent agents and brokers, and industry vendors to focus on business solutions to improve workflows and processes. Other speakers will include senior executives from ACORD, Travelers Property Casualty, The St. Paul Companies, State Auto Insurance, MetLife Auto & Home, Ohio Casualty Group, and SAFECO.

About KMK Consulting

KMK Consulting Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keating, Muething & Klekamp, P.L.L., provides specialized business consulting services to corporate, entrepreneurial, not-for-profit and executive clients and high net worth individuals. KMK Consulting specializes in assisting companies and owners in the sale of their businesses and the acquisition of businesses. They also provide: strategic planning; risk and insurance services; disciplined cost control analyses; government affairs; leadership development; economic development; marketing strategies; business alliances and public/private partnerships. Collectively, the KMK Consulting team has expertise with a broad variety of corporations including experience serving on Boards of Directors of family businesses as well as publicly-traded, national companies. Learn more at www.kmkconsulting.com.

About IVANS

IVANS was founded in 1983 as Insurance Value Added Network Services, an industry network providing a focal point for conducting business electronically in the insurance industry. Owned by several dozen insurance companies and the employees of the company, IVANS develops and provides networking and e-business products and services to most of the major property & casualty, life and health carriers, as well as to a large segment of companies offering insurance-related services. Their products address top insurance carrier concerns -- agency/company interface, enterprise-wide networking, business use of the Internet, developing high bandwidth applications, and XML translation -- that allow companies to effectively conduct business with all trading partners. Learn more at www.ivans.com.