Cox Interactive Media Names Neil Helms Vice President of Sales.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2001 Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia) announced today that Neil Helms has been named vice president of sales. The announcement came from Peter Winter, president of CIMedia. Helms previously served as acting vice president of sales for CIMedia, and joined the company as director of sales. In his new role, he will continue to oversee all advertising sales for CIMedia's network of 20 award-winning websites. "Neil is a strong addition to our senior management team, and the ideal person to lead CIMedia's sales efforts," said Winter. "His determination, insight and strong sales background will serve him well in his new position as vice president." With extensive sales, management and marketing experience, prior to joining CIMedia, Helms was vice president of sales, East Coast, for EarthWeb, 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 , N.Y., a business-to-business Internet publishing company. Before that, he was marketing development manager/senior district manager for BYTE magazine, McGraw Hill Company, Atlanta. Helms' background also includes serving as regional manager for Cahners Publishing, Inc., Atlanta, where he had sales and account management responsibilities for Client Server Today and Government Computer News. Helms also previously served as regional sales director for Information Week, a publication of CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information Publications, San Mateo San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. At Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, Atlanta, where Helms was district manager for PC/Computing magazine, he was involved with the publication's startup, and developed a $3.5 million sales territory in the Southeast U.S. that was ranked No. 1 in market share. Before joining Ziff-Davis, he held marketing and sales positions for Management Science America, Inc., Atlanta, from 1981 to 1988. Helms began his sales career in 1978 as a territory manager for Burroughs Corporation (company) Burroughs Corporation - A company which merged with Sperry Univac to form Unisys Corporation. They produced the Datatron 200 series among other computers. (now UNISYS (Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA, www.unisys.com) An information technology company that was created in 1986 as a merger of the Burroughs and Sperry corporations. At that time, it was the largest merger of computer manufacturers in history. ), Flint, Mich. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Central Michigan University Central Michigan University, at Mount Pleasant, Mich.; coeducational; est. 1892 as a normal school, became Central State Teachers College in 1927, achieved university status in 1959. The university maintains a forest that is used for botanical and biological research. , Mt. Pleasant, Mich. About Cox Interactive Media Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia) operates a network of 20 award-winning websites, including nine sites in the top 25 markets and 16 in the top 50. CIMedia sites are available to 33 percent of adult Internet users among the top 50 most populated U.S. markets and reaches nearly 5 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. each month. Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., CIMedia (www.cimedia.com) was launched in January 1997 and is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. The company is private, 98% controlled by the octogenarian daughter of Cox, Anne Cox Chambers, and the two children of her late , Inc. Cox Enterprises is one of the nation's leading media companies with more than 100 TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers in the U.S. |
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