New Vice President of Product Joins Management Team at Dow Jones
April 21 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
James Becker to drive aggressive and innovative product strategy
and development NEW YORK, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow Jones &
Company today announced James Becker has joined the company as vice
president of product management for the Business & Relationship
Intelligence group. Becker will lead an aggressive and innovative
product strategy focused on next generation sales intelligence
applications. Becker joins an executive team consisting of Tom
Aley, managing director; Simon Bradstock, chief operating officer;
Jeff Bruce, vice president of media services and Darr Aley, vice
president of business development. In the role of vice president of
product management, Becker will be responsible for the product and
commercial strategy to meet the aggressive growth goals of the
organization. With an intense focus on customers, Becker will
collaborate across Dow Jones to expand existing company and
executive content collections and integrate Dow Jones patented
technologies such as B2B social networking and web-extraction into
a range of customer facing applications. "Jimmy's experience and
industry knowledge is deep and we are extremely pleased to have him
join our executive team," stated Tom Aley, managing director of Dow
Jones Business & Relationship Management. "He has a proven
track record for getting results by delivering innovative and
highly differentiated products to market on time and on budget.
Under his strong leadership, it will be quite exciting to see the
results he delivers for the Business & Relationship
Intelligence group." Becker was a founding member of the OneSource
Information Services executive team where he was responsible for
global product development, content strategy and licensing. Most
recently, he served as the vice president of Hoovers at Dun &
Bradstreet(R) where he led a successful turnaround of a $150
million business unit focused on B2B direct marketing solutions.
Becker is a graduate of Brown University and received his MBA from
Yale University. For more information about Dow Jones solutions for
empowering the sales force, please visit
http://www.solutions.dowjones.com/. ABOUT DOW JONES Dow Jones &
Company is a News Corporation company (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS,
NWSLV; http://www.newscorp.com/). Dow Jones is a leading provider
of global business news and information services. Its Consumer
Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's,
MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise
Media Group includes; Dow Jones Business & Relationship
Intelligence, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones
Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial
Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates
community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50 percent
of SmartMoney and 33 percent of STOXX Ltd. and provides news
content to radio stations in the U.S. ABOUT DOW JONES Business
& Relationship Intelligence Dow Jones Business &
Relationship Intelligence provides leading customer intelligence
solutions that enable organizations to identify and connect to the
best business opportunities. The combination of next-generation
technology with actionable information powers the performance of
sales and research professionals and media organizations. Dow Jones
Business & Relationship Intelligence's award-winning solutions
include the most up-to-date and accurate global intelligence on
millions of companies, the executives who manage them and the
relationships that link them. Integrating these tools and content
behind your firewall - connecting vital internal and external
customer information in context for salespeople - provides a
single, complete view of a customer, further increasing your
effectiveness. DATASOURCE: Dow Jones & Company CONTACT: Alexis
Gordon, +1-978-474-1900, , or Adrienne MacWhannell,
+1-212-659-2486, , both of Dow Jones & Company Web Site:
http://www.dowjones.com/
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