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ALACRITUDE, LLC - PUBLISHER OF ELIBRARY.COM AND ENCYCLOPEDIA.COM -- HIRES RICH KREISMAN AS VP OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Seasoned online business development professional brings senior-level experience
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Phone Number: 864-650-7111
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CHICAGO, IL - January 16, 2003 - Alacritude, LLC - publisher of eLibrary.com (www.elibrary.com) and Encyclopedia.com (www.encyclopedia.com) -- announced today the appointment of Rich Kreisman as vice president of business development, effective immediately.
Kreisman brings a 15-year proven track record of generating revenue by developing successful strategic alliances and content partnerships for major online, print and database publishing companies. Most recently, he was vice president of business development at iSyndicate and vice president of business development at Thomson's Gale Group. Kreisman also served as vice president of product management of Avenue Technologies, which was subsequently sold to Bell & Howell Information and Learning. He has served as a consultant for Headland Digital Media and Pearson, and he's held various product management positions at publishing and consultancy companies, as well as editorial positions at Business Week, Advertising Age and Inc. magazines.
In this new position, Kreisman will be responsible for all of Alacritude's revenue generating activities, such as managing all major online strategic partnerships as well as Alacritude's affiliate program which supports subscription acquisition. In his new role, he will also be charged with creating new sources of e-commerce and sponsorship revenue, and he will supervise the company's major content relationships.
"Rich has tremendous experience in directing strategic partnerships with such companies as Microsoft, WebMD and Ziff-Davis," Patrick Spain, chairman and CEO of Alacritude, said. "He brings us unique industry insight, excellent contacts and finely-honed business development skills. We are all thrilled to be working with him."
Kreisman said, "It's exciting to be part of a company that's clearly headed in the right direction. I believe in the company's mission -- to provide a subscription-based service that offers individual researchers great functionality and content at an affordable price - and I look forward to helping drive the company's success."
Kreisman holds a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Ill.
About Alacritude
Alacritude, LLC is a Chicago-based company investing in and operating enterprises positioned at the intersection of technology and media. The company is dedicated to providing online researchers affordable, enterprise-quality information resources and the tools to organize and package information in useful ways. Alacritude is the publisher of eLibrary and Encyclopedia.com, which, through its subscription and free online research services, offers a comprehensive, international digital archive of more than 13 million documents from over 1000 publications such as newspapers, magazines, journals, transcripts, photographs, maps and books - including major works of literature, art and reference.
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