IDG's InfoWorld Names Tom Grimshaw Eastern Advertising Director

Business Wire, August 10, 1999

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 1999--

InfoWorld, the IT newsweekly that defines technology for business, today promoted Tom Grimshaw to Eastern Advertising Director from regional manager.

In this new role, Grimshaw will be responsible for leading InfoWorld's customer oriented selling efforts and growing advertising revenue in the Eastern region.

"Tom's proven success as well as the respect and admiration of his peers and customers nationally, make him an ideal candidate for this position," said Bob Maund, senior vice president, publisher of InfoWorld. "I am confident that with Tom's integrated media background and excellent customer focused selling abilities, he will provide InfoWorld and the eastern region with even greater sales success throughout the year and into 2000."

Grimshaw joined InfoWorld in San Mateo in 1994. Since then, he has held several positions including District Sales manager for Southern California, Regional Sales Manager of the Boston Director of Impact Marketing.

Prior to joining InfoWorld, Grimshaw held various sales and marketing positions at AT&T, Swisshotels, Bay Networks, and Cahners Publishing.

About InfoWorld

Headquartered in San Mateo, in the heart of Silicon Valley, InfoWorld Media Group publishes InfoWorld and InfoWorld Electric (www.infoworld.com). InfoWorld, the IT newsweekly that defines technology for business focuses on editorial coverage of key technologies, products and trends to assist IT professionals in leveraging technology for business advantage.

InfoWorld's $23 million dollar dedicated multi-platform, enterprise test bed -- the InfoWorld Test Center -- conducts the industry's most trusted testing of technology and products as well as provides in-depth analysis and the business ROI of the technology and implementation.

InfoWorld Media Group also publishes InfoWorld Electric, defining technology for business on the web, features daily technology news, product reviews, opinions, interactive discussion forums, along with a weekly e-mail newsletter (the InfoWorld Scoop) and a complete archive of InfoWorld's print edition.

InfoWorld Media Group is a wholly-owned independent business unit of IDG, the world's leading IT media, research and exposition company. IDG publishes more than 285 computer magazines and newspapers and 500 book titles and offers online users the largest network of technology specific sites around the world through IDG.net (http://www.idg.net), which comprises more than 200 targeted Web sites in 52 countries.

IDG is also a leading producer of 110 computer-related expositions worldwide, and provides IT market analysis through 49 offices in 41 countries worldwide. Company information is available at http://www.idg.com.