Joseph Root Joins Board of Directors of Allied Healthcare Products, Inc.; Current Director James Hickey to Step Down at End of H
October 27 2006 - 2:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allied Healthcare
Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:AHPI) announced today that Joseph E. Root
has been elected to the Company's Board of Directors, increasing
the size of the Board to six members. Mr. Root, 61, is an attorney
and has been of counsel to the Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP firm
in Half Moon Bay, California, since September 2005. Mr. Root
practices in the field of intellectual property, technology and
patent law. From 2002 until joining Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld, he
assisted in establishing the intellectual property department of
SAP based in Palo Alto, California, and as Senior IP Counsel to SAP
AG. SAP AG, an NYSE listed company, is a German headquartered,
worldwide leader in enterprise management software. During the 2000
to 2002 period, Mr. Root served as general counsel and corporate
secretary to two affiliate public companies: Fidelity National
Information Systems and Micro General Corp. From 1995 until 2000 he
was General Counsel of Marquip, Inc. in Phillips, Wisconsin. Prior
to those positions he served as an attorney specializing in
intellectual property litigation and technology matters with
Johnson Controls, Inc., RJR-Nabisco, Inc. and in private practice
with New York offices of the Bryan Cave and Kenyon & Kenyon
firms. Mr. Root received his undergraduate degree and training as
an engineer at the United States Military Academy at West Point and
served in the Army prior to attending law school. He received his
Juris Doctor degree from Wake Forest University in 1981. In a
related development, Allied also announced that it has been
informed by James B. Hickey Jr. that he will withdraw his name from
renomination to the Board at the forthcoming Annual Meeting of
Shareholders and conclude his service at the end of the present
term. In advising the Company of his intent to retire, he stated
that the increasing demands of his principal occupation made it
increasingly difficult to continue to devote sufficient time and
energy to Allied's operations. In announcing these changes to the
Board, John Weil, Chairman, expressed appreciation to Mr. Hickey
for his service as a Company director since 1998 and for deferring
his retirement until a successor was in place. "It is particularly
difficult for smaller companies, such as Allied, to locate and
secure the services of independent directors who have the ability
and potential to make meaningful contributions. We have benefited
from Jim's counsel over the past 8 years. While Joe Root's focus
may come from a different perspective and background, I am
confident that our deliberations will be the better for his
insights." As a result of the foregoing, the size of Allied's Board
of Directors will return to five members as of the Annual
Shareholders Meeting which will be held on Thursday morning,
November 16, 2006. Proxies for the election of directors and other
business to be conducted at the Annual Meeting are currently being
solicited by the Company's Board and management. As a result of
these developments, proxies received which authorize a vote for Mr.
Hickey will instead be voted for Mr. Root. Any shareholder who
wishes to change or revoke a proxy already submitted should follow
the procedures set forth in the Company's Proxy Statement dated
October 13, 2006. DATASOURCE: Allied Healthcare Products, Inc.
CONTACT: Daniel C. Dunn, Chief Financial Officer, of Allied
Healthcare Products, Inc., +1-314-771-2400 Web site:
http://www.alliedhpi.com/
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