Jonathan A. Greenberg Elected Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of United Industrial Corporation

UIC Contact:
James Perry
410-628-8786
perry@aaicorp.com	For Immediate Release

HUNT VALLEY, Maryland, September 3, 2004 — Jonathan A. Greenberg has been elected vice president, general counsel, and secretary of United Industrial Corporation (UIC).

Greenberg, 37, succeeds Robert W. Worthing, who will continue with the Company as part-time special counsel.

Before his election to UIC, Greenberg was the senior corporate counsel at Manugistics, Inc., a Rockville, Md., global supply chain technology company, where he managed legal affairs for their Government, Aerospace and Defense business. Previously, Greenberg had served as general counsel and vice president of business development at Unibex, Inc., an international e-commerce software and technology firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., and was a partner in the Washington, D.C. offices of Holland & Knight, LLP.

Greenberg earned a doctor’s degree in law in 1991 from the University of Virginia School of Law and an undergraduate degree with a double major in Russian studies and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia in 1988.

He has been admitted to the District of Columbia and New York bars, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, and the federal district courts for the District of Columbia and the Southern and Eastern districts of New York.

For more information on UIC, visit www.unitedindustrial.com.

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