Corporate Dealmaker Forms Advisory Board.

NEW YORK -- Corporate Dealmaker, The Deal LLC media platform that helps companies succeed in the deal economy, announced today that it has formed the Corporate Dealmaker Advisory Board.

"As transactions become a more important part of corporate strategy, more and more companies are recognizing the need for in-house transaction professionals. That's the professional community we created Corporate Dealmaker to serve. Now we've assembled a group of highly accomplished corporate dealmakers with a common interest in building that community and advancing the profession," said Ken Klee, editor. "Together they represent a broad spectrum of experience that will be of great benefit to our audience."

The Corporate Dealmaker Advisory Board will serve Corporate Dealmaker and its audience by contributing hands-on experience and understanding of how different companies organize and manage their strategy formation and business development activities. Board members will also be featured speakers at the third Corporate Dealmaker Forum, a conference to be held on Oct. 2 in New York City.

The members of the Corporate Dealmaker Advisory Board are:

R.M. (Randy) Croyle, director, Mergers & Acquisitions Expertise Center, The Dow Chemical Co. Croyle oversees Dow's acquisitions, divestitures and its many joint ventures. A longtime executive at Midland, Mich.-based Dow, Croyle was previously global director for Dow's manufacturing and engineering organization. When Dow acquired Union Carbide in 1999, he was named director of the program management office that developed and implemented the plan for integrating the two companies, which evolved into the M&A Expertise Center.

Michael E.S. Frankel, senior vice president, corporate development and strategy, Information Resources Inc. Frankel has diverse dealmaking experience, having worked on deals as a lawyer for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and then as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch & Co. He later went on to corporate development jobs at VeriSign and GE Capital before moving to his current position. Frankel is also the author of two books on M&A.

Josh King, director, business & spectrum development, Clearwire Corp. King writes Corporate Dealmaker's "Corporate Tool" column as well as a popular blog of the same name. Before joining Kirkland, Wash.-based Clearwire, he was vice president, corporate development at AT&T Wireless and played an important role in selling the company to Cingular in 2004. Before that King was general counsel at Cellular One of San Francisco.

David G. Monderer, M&A consultant. Monderer retired from Eastman Kodak Co. in 2006 as corporate vice president and managing director of corporate business development, capping a 32-year career there. He spent his last decade leading the global corporate development organization, playing a key role in the strategic repositioning of Kodak as it negotiated the shift to digital technologies -- and closing more than 190 transactions totaling more than $9 billion.

Corporate Dealmaker will be hosting its first full-day Corporate Dealmaker Forum that will attract more than 150 corporate development officers and strategists on October 2 in New York City. Speakers include c-level and senior executives from IBM, Cisco, Honeywell, Avaya, Home Depot and members of the Advisory Board. For more information and to register visit www.thedeal.com/marketing/events/nycforum.

Launched in 2003, Corporate Dealmaker, www.corporatedealmaker.com, is a bimonthly magazine complemented with a Web site that carries daily news, a blog and a conference series. From acquisitions and divestitures to alliances and joint ventures and the licensing of intellectual property, Corporate Dealmaker spotlights the best practices at leading corporations. Corporate Dealmaker is published by The Deal LLC.

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The Deal LLC is a diversified media company that aims to be the authoritative voice of the deal economy. We serve the global deal community - corporate and financial dealmakers, advisers and institutional investors - by providing business and financial news and information that offers fresh insights on the deal economy, a set of interrelated activities, focused on dealmaking of all kinds, whose purpose is to generate corporate growth in a continually changing global market. We offer a comprehensive line of print and electronic products, services and live events for both readers and advertisers, including The Deal, The Daily Deal, TheDeal.com, Corporate Dealmaker, Tech Confidential, Corporate Control Alert, Bankruptcy Insider, Merger Arb Alert, Auction Block, VC Deal and The Deal Blogs Network. Investors in The Deal, a privately held company, include majority owner U.S. Equity Partners, a private investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co. LP, and Rustic Canyon Ventures, one of the largest venture capital funds in Southern California.