The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), announced that media industry executive Mike Marchesano will join as Managing Director of the American Business Media (AMB) Division of SIIA. ABM merged with SIIA on June 30.
Marchesano most recently was President and CEO of Aequor Media, a consulting firm dedicated to providing strategic, customized technology solutions for B2B and consumer magazines, newspapers, and Fortune 1000 companies. Marchesano was also Managing Director at the Jordan Edmiston Group, an investment banking firm, where he led the sale of Congressional Quarterly to the Economist Group. Before that, he was Executive Vice President & Chief Transformation Officer at The Nielsen Company; President and CEO at VNU Business Media; President and CEO at Bill Communications (an operating company of VNU), and President at BPA International (now BPA Worldwide). Marchesano was an ABM board member from 2001-07, serving as chairman in 2006-07, and a SIIA Content Division board member from 2007-11.
Source: Software & Information Industry Association
