DIRECTOR: DIL: Diligent Elects New Chairman

1 Mar 2010 8:31 am

DIL 01/03/2010 DIRECTOR

REL: 0830 HRS Diligent Board Member Services INC (NS)

DIRECTOR: DIL: Diligent Elects New Chairman

The Board of Diligent Board Member Services ("Diligent") has elected David Liptak as the new Chairman of the Corporation. Mr. Liptak succeeds Rick Bettle who has served as Chairman since May 2008 and will continue as a Director on the Board. The Board thanked Mr. Bettle for his outstanding service as Chairman.

Mr. Liptak, who resides in New York City, is the Founder and President of Spring Street Partners, LP (www.spring-street.net), a privately held New York based investment firm that has been organized as a registered broker dealer with the US Securities and Exchange Commission since July, 1995. He has extensive experience derived from prior positions at senior levels in global capital markets and investment management firms, including Oppenheimer & Co. and Bear Stearns & Co., since 1983. Mr. Liptak has served on the Board of Diligent since March 2009. Mr Liptak had the following statement:

"I am very excited to take on this new role at Diligent. I invested in the company last year because I saw great potential for this business, and I am very happy with the company's performance this past year. They refined their business operations and really executed on their sales plan, and that is readily apparent in the latest sales and financial reports. I am looking forward to working closely with Diligent's management in New York; I believe they have a terrific CEO and a great team in place that can take to the company to the next level."

"Coincidently I, like Diligent, have a tie to New Zealand. My wife, is a New Zealander and every year we travel there for the Christmas holidays with our three children. I have a real special fondness for New Zealand and the people here and I am very much looking forward to meeting our New Zealand investors at the AGM this May." End CA:00191846 For:DIL Type:DIRECTOR Time:2010-03-01:08:31:03

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