Spencer Kirk, chairman and CEO for Extra Space Storage Inc., a self-storage real estate investment trust (REIT), will participate in the 2012 RW Baird Growth Stock Conference on May 8 at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Chicago. Kirk will present at 2:25 p.m. ET.

A listen-only webcast of the presentation will be available at http://wsw.com/webcast/baird29/exr/, and will be archived for 60 days after the presentation.

Baird is an employee-owned wealth management, capital markets, asset management and private-equity firm with client assets of more than $87 billion. The Growth Stock Conference will feature executives from more than 140 of the fastest-growing companies across the following sectors: business services, communications, consumer/retail, distribution, education, financial institutions, health care/life sciences, specialty pharmaceuticals, technology and transportation/logistics.

Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Extra Space Storage owns or operates 882 self-storage properties in 34 states and Washington, D.C. The company's properties comprise approximately 585,000 units and approximately 64 million square feet of rentable space, including boat storage, RV storage and business storage.

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