Executive Change: Acxiom Names John A. Adams as Chief Operating Officer

Acxiom Corporation (Nasdaq: ACXM) announced today that its Board of Directors has named John A. Adams to serve as the company’s Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President.

Adams, 53, will direct the operational areas of Acxiom which include the market-facing industry units, Europe and Asia Pacific, service development and delivery, and information technology.

“John is a proven global leader who has played key roles in helping a number of high-tech companies successfully build shareholder value,” said Acxiom Chief Executive Officer and President John Meyer.

“John has served as a consultant to Acxiom for several months, and he has already positively contributed to Acxiom’s organizational realignment and cost-reduction efforts,” Meyer said.

Prior to joining Acxiom, Adams was Executive Vice President, Customer Solutions, of Eclipsys, a healthcare information software and services vendor. In that capacity, he was responsible for the company’s outsourcing and hosting units as well as a number of administrative functions.

In other leadership roles, Adams has served as Chief Financial Officer for Exult, Inc., a human resources business process outsourcing company; as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of AT&T Business Services, a subsidiary of AT&T Corporation; and as Vice President and Controller for Electronic Data Systems (EDS), where he oversaw the accounting and finance functions for EDS worldwide.

Adams, a British citizen, is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He holds a bachelor of arts degree with honors in economics from the University of Exeter, England.

As an inducement to join Acxiom, the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors granted equity awards to Adams effective as of May 22, 2008, certain of which awards are considered “inducement awards” as defined in the NASDAQ Marketplace Rules. The awards designated as inducement awards consist of 30,000 restricted stock units granted pursuant to the terms of the 2008 Nonqualified Equity Compensation Plan of Acxiom Corporation. Of this total, 3,000 of the restricted stock units are performance-based awards which vest three years from the date of grant provided the Company has achieved certain financial objectives and 27,000 of the restricted stock units vest ratably over four years, 25 percent per year, beginning on the first anniversary of the date of grant. The inducement awards were approved by the Compensation Committee pursuant to NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 4350(i)(1)(A)(iv).

At Acxiom, we make information intelligent for many of the world’s leading and most dynamic companies, enabling them to acquire new customers, retain their most valuable customers, communicate with customers in the methods and times they prefer, and make profitable marketing and business decisions. Acxiom’s unmatched customer insight is achieved by blending the world’s largest repository of consumer data, award-winning technology and analytics, multi-channel expertise, privacy leadership, and superior knowledge of a wide spectrum of industries. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, with locations throughout the United States and Europe, and in Australia and China. For more information about Acxiom, visit www.acxiom.com.