Business Wire Promotes Gregg Castano, Phyllis Dantuono and Steve Messick to Senior Vice Presidents.Business Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photos are available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001 In recognition of the key roles they have played in Business Wire's dramatic sales growth, technical leadership and global expansion, veteran staffers Gregg Castano, Phyllis Dantuono and Steve Messick have been promoted to senior vice presidents of the company, Cathy Baron Tamraz, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , announced Tuesday. Dantuono and Messick also have been named to Business Wire's executive board, the key decision-making body in terms of strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , technological innovation, employee benefits and compensation. "Phyllis, Gregg and Steve have made major contributions to Business Wire's growth in recent years," noted Tamraz. "They are part of a core team of veteran staffers that has made Business Wire the U.S. market leader in the commercial news industry and are spearheading our international expansion." Castano, senior vice president, global sales, joined Business Wire in 1985. He is responsible for the coordination of the national and international sales effort, including the current campaign to set up sales offices worldwide. Castano, 39, is a graduate of Fordham University Fordham University (fôr`dəm), in New York City; Jesuit; coeducational; founded as St. John's College 1841, chartered as a university 1846; renamed 1907. Fordham College for men and Thomas More College for women merged in 1974. . He is a senior member of Business Wire's advisory board. Dantuono, 40, assumes the new title of senior vice president, national bureaus. Dantuono, an alumni of St. John's University, is responsible for all aspects of the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of office, ranging from sales to operations. New York is Business Wire's largest revenue-producing office, generating approximately one-fourth of the company's total revenues. Prior to joining Business Wire in 1986, Dantuono worked at The Equity Group, a leading New York investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. agency. In her new role, Dantuono will oversee editorial integrity for all Business Wire newsrooms and work closely with Tamraz on policy matters. Messick, senior vice president national systems & technology, joined Business Wire in 1991. He is responsible for development and maintenance of Business Wire's leading-edge technical systems. He was previously associated with Business Wire as a consultant and, in total, has spent two decades directing Business Wire's technical leadership in multi-platform news delivery. He earned his B.S. degree in computer sciences from Texas A&M. Tamraz also announced two additions to the company's advisory board: Tom Becktold, vice president, marketing, and Pat Evans, vice president, operations. The advisory board deals primarily with competitive issues and issues recommendations to the executive board. ABOUT BUSINESS WIRE: Founded in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden in 1961 by its president Lorry I. Lokey, veteran journalist and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most executive, Business Wire has network access to more than 60 international and national newswires, financial information providers and web-based news services throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Asia, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , the Middle East and Africa. With content from more than 34,000 organizations, including major U.S. corporations, Fortune 1000 and NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on companies, Business Wire remains the fastest-growing and largest independent commercial newswire in the world. The company electronically disseminates full-text news releases for media and investor relations professionals simultaneously to the news media, the Internet, online services and databases, and the investment community worldwide. Business Wire combines a brick-and-mortar foundation with the vision of an Internet company. Headquartered in San Francisco, Business Wire has 26 U.S. offices, London and Brussels offices, and reciprocal Bilateral; two-sided; mutual; interchanged. Reciprocal obligations are duties owed by one individual to another and vice versa. A reciprocal contract is one in which the parties enter into mutual agreements. offices worldwide. Note: Photos are available: Phyllis Dantuono: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.060501/bb9 Tom Becktold: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.060501/bb9a Steve Messick: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.060501/bb9b Pat Evans: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.060501/bb9c Gregg Castano: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.060501/bb9d |
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