Business Wire Names Ken Bouton, Vice President, Midwest Region.CHICAGO -- Ken Bouton bouton /bou·ton/ (boo-tahn´) [Fr.] a buttonlike swelling on an axon where it has a synapse with another neuron. synaptic bouton b. terminal. has been named Vice President, Midwest Region, one of the company's fastest growing territories. Bouton, a 10-year Business Wire veteran, will be responsible for overall sales and operations for the Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Minneapolis offices in his new role. "Ken has a solid track record of service to both the company and to the markets he has served," said Gregg Castano, Business Wire's co-Chief Operating Officer, in making the announcement. "His sales and leadership expertise in general will be valuable assets to employees and clients in the important midwestern states. I have every reason to expect that the midwest will flourish under his guidance." An alumnus ALUMNUS, civil law. A child which one has nursed; a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14. of Indiana University, Bouton will continue to manage the company's Chicago office and many of Business Wire's Fortune 500 clients in the Chicago area. Prior to his appointment as manager of Business Wire, Chicago, Bouton was manager of Business Wire's Dallas bureau for several years. Before joining BW, he worked for 10 years at Dallas-based Political Research in positions ranging from sales to vice president, and in licensing with Nashville-based BMI BMI body mass index. BMI abbr. body mass index Body mass index (BMI) A measurement that has replaced weight as the preferred determinant of obesity. . Bouton and his wife, Marcy, live in the Chicago suburbs with their daughters Sophie, 9 and Grace, 7. About Business Wire Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is utilized by thousands of member companies and organizations to transmit their full-text news releases, regulatory filings, photos and other multimedia content to journalists, news media, trade publications, institutional and individual investors, financial information services, regulatory authorities, Internet portals, information web sites, business-to-business decision-makers and consumers worldwide. With a news distribution network spanning 150 countries and 45 languages, Business Wire's multi-channel delivery network has access to some 60 international and national news agency networks throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The Business Wire news network is powered by its patented NX high-speed data platform and supports XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , XHTML (EXtensible HTML) A markup language for Web pages from the W3C. XHTML combines HTML and XML into a single format (HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0). Like XML, XHTML can be extended with proprietary tags. Also like XML, XHTML must be coded more rigorously than HTML. and XBRL (EXtensible Business Reporting Language) A specification for publishing financial information in the XML format. It is designed to provide a standard set of XML tags for exchanging accounting information and financial statements between companies and analysts. code to deliver the most sophisticated news file to enhance news release interactivity, customization and search engine optimization Designing a Web site so that search engines easily find the pages and index them. The goal is to have your page be in the top 10 results of a search. Optimization includes the choice of words used in the text paragraphs and the placement of those words on the page, both visible and hidden . Business Wire has 30 bureaus in cities including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Paris, Frankfurt, London, Brussels, Tokyo and Sydney with reciprocal offices throughout the world. Business Wire was founded in 1961 by Chairman Lorry I. Lokey, veteran journalist and public relations executive. Cathy Baron Tamraz is president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . |
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