VNU Names James Cuminale EVP, Chief Legal Officer.Cuminale Succeeds Long-Time General Counsel Earl Doppelt HAARLEM, Netherlands & 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 -- VNU VNU Volontaires des Nations Unies (French) VNU Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven (Dutch) VNU Virtual Network User Group B.V., a leading global information and media company, today named James W. Cuminale executive vice president and chief legal officer, succeeding Earl H. Doppelt, the company's long-time general counsel. Cuminale joins VNU from PanAmSat Corporation, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based global satellite communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. , where he was executive vice president - corporate development, general counsel and secretary, responsible for the company's legal and regulatory affairs as well as corporate strategy and transactions. In his new role, he will report to David L. Calhoun, chairman and chief executive officer of VNU. "Jim is a welcome addition to VNU's senior leadership team," said Calhoun. "He is a first-rate attorney with extensive experience handling legal and regulatory issues and corporate strategy and transactions within the information industry. We are fortunate to have someone of his caliber join our team. "At the same time, I would like to thank Earl Doppelt for his many years of superb service to VNU. Earl has provided expert legal advice and business leadership through three complex ownership transitions, and oversaw our successful legal strategy during more than 10 years of litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. involving our ACNielsen business. We were disappointed by Earl's decision to leave VNU after the sale of the company, but we respect his decision and appreciate greatly his willingness to stay on while we recruited his successor." Doppelt spent the last 12 years with VNU, ACNielsen and The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. He was general counsel of D&B when it was broken up into three separate companies in 1996, and became general counsel of one of those companies, the publicly traded ACNielsen Corporation, until VNU acquired ACNielsen in 2001. He was then named executive vice president and chief legal officer of VNU. Doppelt joined D&B in 1994 from Paramount Communications, where he handled all legal matters for the company and its Paramount Pictures and Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. units. Earlier, Doppelt was a litigator lit·i·gate v. lit·i·gat·ed, lit·i·gat·ing, lit·i·gates v.tr. To contest in legal proceedings. v.intr. To engage in legal proceedings. specializing in antitrust and securities matters for the New York firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. Cuminale joined PanAmSat as general counsel in 1995, following a 16-year career with the law firm of Ivey, Barnum & O'Mara in Greenwich, Connecticut. He later added responsibility for the company's regulatory, corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. and compliance matters as corporate secretary of the public company, and later oversaw all corporate strategy and transactions as head of corporate development. PanAmSat, which recently merged with Intelsat, was a publicly held company until its acquisition in 2004 by private-equity investors, including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (commonly referred to as KKR) is a New York City-based private equity firm that focuses primarily on late-stage leveraged buyouts. It was founded in 1976 by Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., and cousins Henry Kravis and George R. & Co. and The Carlyle Group, two of VNU's current owners. About VNU VNU is a global information and media company with leading market positions and recognized brands in marketing information (ACNielsen), media information (Nielsen Media Research), business publications (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Computing, Intermediair) and trade shows. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is active in more than 100 countries, with headquarters in Haarlem, the Netherlands, and New York, USA. VNU employs nearly 41,000 people and had total revenues of EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 3.5 billion in 2005. For more information, visit www.vnu.com. |
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