New business intelligence subscription service from LexisNexis.

LexisNexis (New York) has launched ExecRelate (execrelate.com), a subscription-based information service that provides intelligence on directors, executives and their relationships. Described as an online relationship management tool, the service offers "insights" into approximately 50,000 board members, including biographical data, cross-linking maps and a social networking module.

Targeted to legal researchers, executive recruiters and business development professionals, the service is designed to highlight connections to executives, including board memberships, corporate family structures, and executive-to-executive relationships. It includes over 700,000 personal names and titles, 65,000 parent companies and 118,000 linked subsidiaries, almost 200,000 U.S. and international public and private companies, and nearly 50,000 board members from all NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX traded companies.

A side-by-side comparison feature displays linkages and commonalities between board members in multiple areas, including current career or board memberships, job and board history, educational background, association membership and certifications earned. Subscribers can also create custom electronic alerts for information on changes involving specific companies or personnel.

LexisNexis Vice President Roderick Morris said "we have invested the time to capture this proprietary content, keep it updated, and visually cross-link it for users to see connections. Our analysts are updating and verifying thousands of pieces of data each day an scanning news sources for personnel change."