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DIANA CHILDRESS NAMED SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, STRATEGIC MARKETING FOR THOMSON-GALE

With extensive credentials in the publishing, education and e-learning segments, Diana will champion a dynamic marketing strategy focused on brand expansion and turnkey customer product solutions. She will be responsible for developing and executing the strategic marketing vision for the open web and emerging learning solutions as well as for driving revenue growth.

Diana has held executive positions in both Marketing and Business Development, most recently as Vice President of Marketing with WoltersKluwer Health in Philadelphia, where she managed the marketing function for their $300M health science publishing business. In addition to deploying customer intimacy programs and a new market development process, Diana served on the strategic task force for business development outside of traditional channels.

Prior, she spent five years as Vice President, Corporate Leasing and Business Development for ProQuest. While at ProQuest, Diana closed multiple strategic partnerships, including marketing and product positioning, and was a key contributor in the launch of a higher education information company start-up.

Diana also served as a Principal/Partner in WellFleet Group, a consulting practice which established business models and strategy for education companies launching or transitioning to e-business, as Senior Vice President of Publishing for Vcampus.com, and as Senior Vice President of Marketing for Harcourt Brace College Publishers.

In addition, she brings marketing and sales experience from Macmillan, HarperCollins and Pearson Education and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications Arts and Marketing from C.W. Post College.

About Thomson-Gale:

Thomson Gale™ (www.gale.com), a business of The Thomson Corporation, is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform.

BRANDON NORDIN NAMED VP, INTERNATIONAL MARKETS

Brandon's extensive publishing industry experience suits this position. In his most recent role as vice president/group publisher, Osborne Media & Technology Education, a division of McGraw-Hill, Brandon was responsible for restructuring McGraw-Hill Education's college publishing programs and growing the company's international operations.

Before McGraw-Hill, Brandon was vice president and director, Marketing & International Sales/Licensing for IDG Books. In this role, he spearheaded a consumer-branding campaign that transformed the company's "…for Dummies" brand from a single-title bestseller into a widely recognized international consumer brand. He began his career in publishing as marketing manager/sales representative for Prentice-Hall.

Brandon earned a bachelor's degree from Hamilton College in New York and is a graduate of the Stanford Publishing Program.

About Thomson Gale:

Thomson Gale™ (www.gale.com), a business of The Thomson Corporation, serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. The company is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs - from homework help to health questions to business profiles - in a variety of formats - books, Web-based solutions and microfilm.

 

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