Cerner Announces Appointment of Mitch Daniels to its Board of Directors

Cerner News Release:

Cerner Announces Appointment of Mitch Daniels to its Board of Directors

December 23, 2013

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dec. 23, 2013 — Cerner Corporation (Nasdaq: CERN) announced today that Mitch Daniels has been appointed to the company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. Daniels, 64, is president of Purdue University, a role he assumed in January 2013 after serving as Governor of Indiana since 2004. Daniels fills a newly created Class II Director seat.

With this appointment, Cerner’s board now has nine members, with seven of them, including Daniels, being external and independent. Daniels will be subject to re-election at Cerner’s 2015 annual shareholder meeting.

“I am honored to welcome Mitch to our board of directors,” said Neal Patterson, Cerner’s chairman, CEO, and co-founder. “He brings a wealth of public and private sector experience that will be invaluable to Cerner. Our board is looking forward to the perspective he will provide as Cerner remains focused on driving systemic improvements in the extremely large and complex health care industry, which will require major involvement from both the public and private sectors.”

Daniels comes from a successful career in business and government, holding numerous top management positions in both the private and public sectors. His work as CEO of the Hudson Institute and President of Eli Lilly and Company's North American Pharmaceutical Operations taught him the business skills he brought to state government. He also served as Chief of Staff to Senator Richard Lugar, Senior Advisor to President Ronald Reagan and Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush.

Currently, Daniels serves as co-chair of the National Research Council and as a director for Energy Systems Network.

Daniels earned a bachelor's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1971, and his law degree from Georgetown University in 1979.

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