Sales Contacts:

Elizabeth O’Connor,Senior Sales & Marketing Specialist
203-358-4391
elizabeth.oconnor@penton.com

William Camaraza,Senior Sales & Marketing Specialist
954-389-1442
william.camaraza@penton.com

Candice Hadley, Sales & Marketing Specialist
630-554-8989
candice.hadley@penton.com

Cynthia Foristel, PROMO SourceBook/Classified Specialist
203-358-4378
cynthia.foristel@penton.com

Leslie Bacon, Group Publisher,
Chief Marketer Network- PROMO, Chief Marketer, DIRECT, Multichannel Merchant
203-358-4145
leslie.bacon@penton.com

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Editorial Contacts:

Beth Negus Viveiros

Beth Negus Viveiros:
Beth Negus Viveiros is the Web Editor of the Chief Marketer Network. She also writes the column "Pushing the Envelope" for DIRECT magazine, and has served in a number of roles on DIRECT, including executive editor, managing editor and senior writer. A graduate of University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Beth is the former editor of 1to1 magazine and a former associate editor with DM News. She began her career as a reporter for the Warren Times-Gazette in Rhode Island. Other writing/editing credits include Insurance Conference Planner, ToyFare, Laundry News, Medical Meetings, Dasoku, Corporate Meetings & Incentives, the Sakonnet Times and the Bristol Phoenix. She has given presentations at events for several marketing industry groups, including the DM Club of New York and the New England Direct Marketing Association. Beth resides and works in the Boston area.
CONTACT: beth.negus@penton.com / 617-916-2762

Larry Riggs:
Senior Editor Larry Riggs has been covering the direct marketing industry for 15 years. He was managing editor of DM News for nearly eight years and helped bring it from a bi-monthly to a weekly. He joined DIRECT in 1995. His regular beats include business-to-business and the postal service, but he covers all aspects of direct marketing. A business reporter for more than 20 years, he has written about everything from the music and radio broadcasting businesses to discount retailing and industrial sales and marketing. A 1980 graduate of S.U.N.Y.@ Stony Brook, he is fluent in French and spent a semester in Paris. His French fluency was an asset in the early 1990s when many American direct marketers began expanding into Europe.
CONTACT: 212-204-4226 larry.riggs@penton.com

Richard Levey:
Senior writer Richard H. Levey has been a member of DIRECT's editorial staff since April 1997. His beats include database marketing, customer relationship management and return on investment and analytics disciplines. He also coordinates the marketing group's industry benchmarking research surveys. Before joining DIRECT, Richard was a market research project director at Simmons Market Research Bureau, a copy editor and paste-up man at Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, and a circulation analyst at Brant Art Publications. Aside from his writing duties at DIRECT, Richard has written two supplemental education book for children, and has privately published a biennial guide to Congressional foibles. He graduated from Emory University with a B.A. in history and English in 1989.
CONTACT: richard.levey@penton.com / 212-204-4220


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