Executive Promotions Announced at Wired Ventures; Senior Managers Solidify Company Plans for New Print, Interactive and Television Development.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 5, 1996--Wired Ventures Inc. is pleased to announce strategic promotions among its senior-level management, as well as within the company's Print, Interactive and Television groups. John Battelle John Linwood Battelle is a journalist as well as founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing[1]. He has been a visiting professor of journalism at UC Berkeley and also maintains Searchblog, a weblog covering search, technology, and media[2]. has been named executive director, Editorial Development for Wired Ventures Inc. Working with the office of the editor-in-chief, Battelle will develop and implement new editorial products for Wired Ventures and monitor ongoing projects for editorial quality and brand consistency. Battelle retains his responsibilities as executive managing editor of Wired magazine. Jeff Simon has been named chief financial officer, Wired Ventures Inc. Formerly vice president and chief financial officer of HotWired Ventures Inc., he is responsible for the financial affairs of Wired Ventures Inc. and its subsidiaries. In addition, Rex Ishibashi, formerly vice president and chief financial officer, Business Affairs, of Wired Ventures Inc., has been named vice president of Corporate and Business Development for Wired Ventures Inc. He is responsible for the identification, evaluation and implementation of new business ventures and relationships, as well as general corporate development activities. Andrew Anker has been named vice president, Interactive, for Wired Ventures Inc. He is responsible for overseeing all of the interactive and technology businesses of Wired Ventures Inc. He retains his responsibilities as chairman and chief executive officer for HotWired Ventures Inc. Roberta Riga has been named director of Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. for Wired Ventures Inc. Formerly director of Human Resources for HotWired Ventures Inc., her responsibilities include the management and implementation of company-wide human resource functions, including compensation, benefits, staffing, employee relations, and the development of employment practices for all the Wired groups. "These advancements will catalyze cat·a·lyze v. To modify, especially to increase, the rate of a chemical reaction by catalysis. catalyze to cause or produce catalysis. Wired Ventures's creative and financial growth," said Louis Rossetto Louis Rossetto (born 1949) is an American journalist. He is best known as the founder and former publisher of Wired magazine. Rossetto was born and grew up on Long Island, New York. He went to Columbia University as an undergraduate and later returned for an MBA. , chief executive officer of Wired Ventures Inc. "This team is strong and we see its professional development as integral to the development of the company as a whole." In the Print group, Dana Lyon Lyon English Lyons City (pop., 1999: city, 445,452; metro. area, 1,348,932), east-central France. Located at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers, it was founded as the Roman military colony Lugdunum in 43 BC (see has been named vice president of Wired Ventures's magazine group. Formerly the associate publisher of Wired magazine, she now has overall responsibility for the Magazine group, including new magazine development and foreign expansion. Also in the Print group, Drew Schutte has been named associate publisher of Wired magazine. Formerly advertising director for Wired magazine, he will oversee sales efforts for Wired US, Wired Japan and Wired UK. The Print group recently announced a partnership with Spiegal-Verlag, Gruner + Jahr Gruner + Jahr GmbH & Co. KG is the largest European printing and publishing firm. Its headquarters is in Baumwall, Hamburg, Germany. History Originally founded on Aug 1, 1948 as the Henri Nannen publishing house, Gruner + Jahr was created in 1965 from a merger by , and Wired Ventures Inc., to produce a German edition of Wired, to launch early next year. In the Interactive group, David Weir
In the Television group, Grant Perry joins Wired Ventures Inc. as the executive producer of "Wired: Netizen TV," a show based on HotWired's Netizen channel and Wired magazine's Netizen column. "Wired: The Netizen" will air on newly formed MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company in late July. Prior to his work at Wired, Perry was a new media executive with Olivetti in Europe and in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . He also worked as a journalist and anchor for seven years at CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. in 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 and London. For more information, please contact Publicity & Promotions Director Taara Eden Hoffman (415/222-6212 or taara@wired.com). CONTACT: Wired Ventures Inc. Taara Eden Hoffman, 415/222-6212 taara@wired.com |
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