Andrew Hickey, TechTarget Veteran, Joins CMP Channel as Senior Editor

PRNewswire
MANHASSET, N.Y.
Dec 10, 2007

CMP Channel today announced that TechTarget veteran, Andrew Hickey, has joined CRN and VARBusiness as senior editor covering infrastructure technologies. Hickey, who will be based in CMP's Waltham, Massachusetts office, will report to Jennifer Follett, assistant editor for CRN and VARBusiness.

According to Robert DeMarzo, Editorial Director, CMP Channel, "We are thrilled to have someone with Andrew's experience join our team. His comprehensive knowledge of technology issues will add increased depth to our Channel news and analysis, focused on helping our customers advance their business opportunities."

Hickey was most recently news editor of the Networking Media Group at TechTarget where he covered networking, mobile technology, telecom and advancements in VoIP communications. An expert online journalist, Hickey has worked for The Salem News (Beverly, MA), The Journal Inquirer (Manchester, CT) and The Reporter (Lansdale, PA). He has covered a broad range of topics including crime, courts, transportation, business, government and human interest. Hickey earned a bachelor's degree in communication with a concentration in journalism from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

About CMP Channel (www.cmpchannelgroup.com)

CMP Channel is the one stop shop customers turn to in order to meet their global sales channel objectives from access to execution. Through use of its family of channel solutions which include CRN and VARBusiness, the ChannelWeb network, XChange Events and the Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED), vendors are able to accelerate sales through the channel. CMP Channel provides a worldwide answer to advertising, branding and marketing services, lead generation, market intelligence, branded and custom events, education of solution providers and best practices for vendors.

About CMP

CMP (http://www.cmp.com/) is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as TechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developers Conference and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to cmp.com/news.

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