Boston-area executives hit the road

Massachusetts executives could be hard to find next week, and it won't be just because they're vacationing on the Vineyard or soaking up R&R in the Berkshires.

A slew of investor conferences are scheduled for early September, and local companies will be well represented.

Here's just a sampling of some road-show itineraries and a random list of those who are booked to make presentations.

Mercury Computer Systems Inc., a Chelmsford-based provider of computer systems and software for data-intensive applications, said members of its management team will make a presentation at a Kaufman Brothers Investor Conference in New York Sept. 5 and 6.

Instead of a day at the beach, it will be a day in the Big Apple for Ofer Gneezy; at the Kaufman Brothers conference, chief executive Gneezy of Burlington-based iBasis Inc., a global VoIP company, is expected to discuss the company's pending transaction with Royal KPN, a Dutch national carrier.

Also in New York next week will be chief financial officer Ken Goldman of Salary.com of Waltham; he's scheduled to brief investors on the company's on-demand compensation management solutions at the Citigroup 2007 Technology Conference.

In Vienna, meanwhile, plans call for executives from Boston Scientific Corp., the Natick-based medical device company, to announce results from a clinical Taxus stent trial at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

Not everyone with a stock-options plan will be roaming far afield and burning up the frequent-flyer miles in the quest for investor dollars.

Indeed, one local venue that could be chock-a-block with executives is the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, where merchant bank Thomas Weisel Partners has booked a healthcare conference from Sept. 7 through Sept. 9.

Among locals planning to attend Thomas Weisel events are Mike Bonney, chief executive of Lexington's Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., and Alexis Borisy, chief executive of CombinatoRx Inc.of Cambridge.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)