InternetWeek Creates Powerful Transformation Advisory Board

Board Members Oversee Billions of Dollars in Technology Spending

PRNewswire
MANHASSET, N.Y.
Jun 9, 2000

CMP's InternetWeek, the news and analysis source for IT and corporate management applying Internet technologies and strategies to transform their businesses, announced it has formed its first ever Transformation Advisory Board, comprising some of the country's most powerful and innovative e-business and IT thinkers. These 11 distinguished leaders from a cross-section of industries oversee billions of dollars in technology spending and help chart the strategic direction of both blue chip and startup e-businesses.

"This editorial advisory board isn't just window dressing," said Robert Preston, Editor in Chief of InternetWeek. "InternetWeek's editors will draw on these executives' experience and ideas to bring ever more relevant and compelling information to our print, online and event formats."

  InternetWeek Transformation Advisory Board Charter Members are:

  Phil Gibson, Vice President of Web Business & Sales Automation,
   National Semiconductor
  Jennifer Hamilton, CEO, RosettaNet
  David Kepler, Vice President of Electronic Business and CIO, Dow Chemical
  Frederick Matteson, Executive Vice President, Charles Schwab
  Mark Rhoney, President, UPS e-Ventures
  Mark Saul, Partner, Foundation Capital
  Bill Seltzer, Executive Vice President and CIO, Office Depot
  Phil Teplitzky, CTO, VitaminShoppe.com
  Fulton Wilcox, Director of Information Management, BOC Gases
  Jim Yost, Vice President and CIO, Ford Motor

This guiding board of 11 e-business leaders will provide valuable feedback and input to InternetWeek's audience -- today's Transformation Agents. CMP's InternetWeek (http://www.internetwk.com/) is the news and analysis source for 215,000 IT and corporate managers applying Internet technologies and strategies to transform their businesses. With a history of innovation and thought leadership, InternetWeek is the only newspaper with an Internet/IT editorial focus -- meeting the informational needs for Transformation Agents charged with building e-businesses and driving business to survive in today's competitive market place. According to the most recent Simmons and IntelliQuest readership studies, InternetWeek delivers the most powerful audience -- it is the best-read and maintains the highest reader loyalty of all networking newspapers.

About CMP Media Inc.

CMP Media Inc. is the leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum -- the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. With its portfolio of newspapers, magazines, custom publishing, Internet products, research, consulting and conferences, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive integrated solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Online editions of the company's print publications, along with products and services created exclusively for the Internet, can be found on CMPnet at http://www.cmpnet.com/ .

SOURCE: CMP Media Inc.

Contact: Yvonne Diamond of CMP Media Inc., 415-528-3280, or
ydiamond@cmp.com

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