By Bruce Carleton
09 May 2008

BERKELEY CA -- Insider Newswire reports on top transactions executed by corporate insiders at publicly held companies. This report is based on form 4 filings submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commision by publicly held companies in the last six business days.

Top Corporate Officer Transactions

The top buying officers were James M Cornelius, Frank H Laukien and Athanasios L Giannopoulos. James M Cornelius of New York NY bought 100,000 shares of Bristol Myers Squibb Co (Common Stock, $0.10 Par Value) for a total cost of $2,282,827.25 at an average price of $22.81 a share. Frank H Laukien of Billerica MA bought 150,000 shares of Bruker Corp (Common Stock) for a total cost of $1,819,160.17 at an average price of $12.13 a share. Athanasios L Giannopoulos of Columbia MD bought 50,000 shares of Micros Systems Inc (Common Stock) for a total cost of $1,508,945.00 at an average price of $30.18 a share.

The top selling officers were Reilly David O, John S Watson and Stephen J Crowe. Reilly David O of San Ramon CA sold 400,000 shares of Chevron Corp (Common Stock) for a total of $38,314,645.79 at an average price of $95.85 a share. John S Watson of San Ramon CA sold 240,000 shares of Chevron Corp (Common Stock) for a total of $22,989,168.84 at an average price of $95.79 a share. Stephen J Crowe of San Ramon CA sold 152,000 shares of Chevron Corp (Common Stock) for a total of $14,532,847.15 at an average price of $95.56 a share.

Insiders file Form 4s with the SEC to report transactions in their companies' shares. Open market purchases and sales must be reported within two business days of the transaction. Indirect transactions and transactions with reported share prices of greater than $1000 are excluded from the report.

Write to Bruce Carleton at rbc@insidernewswire.com