NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced that Kathleen Delaney, 42, has been named senior director of marketing, effective immediately. Ms. Delaney has more than 15 years of marketing, product development and strategic marketing communications experience at leading information services, publishing and telecommunications companies.
In her new role, Ms. Delaney will oversee the marketing function across all Dow Jones Indexes product groups, which includes all Dow Jones equity indexes, Dow Jones alternative indexes and the Dow Jones Wilshire benchmark index family. She will report to Michael A. Petronella, president of Dow Jones Indexes and Reprints.
"Kathleen has a proven track record of building strong, integrated marketing teams and creating innovative marketing campaigns that help drive the success of business initiatives. Throughout her career she has pioneered the use of web-based platforms and other leading-edge technology to strengthen a company's value proposition to customers," Mr. Petronella said. "Her knowledge and experience will be a true asset to our team."
Previously, Ms. Delaney served as director of business marketing at Factiva, where she was instrumental in the strategic positioning of a number of content solutions, including the use of viral marketing and blogs. Prior to this role, she served as director of marketing communications where she led all external messaging and web-based marketing activities. She started her five-year career at Factiva as director of product management.
Ms. Delaney also has held similar marketing and product development positions at OneSource Information Services, Dow Jones Newswires and AT&T.
Ms. Delaney received a bachelor's degree in economics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and a master's of business administration in finance and international business from New York University.
Dow Jones Indexes is a business unit of Dow Jones & Company, and a premier global provider of more than 10,000 indexes, including the Dow Jones Averages, Dow Jones Wilshire Indexes, and Dow Jones Global, Regional, Country and Sector Titans Indexes. Dow Jones Indexes is also a co-owner of the pan-European Dow Jones STOXX Indexes. For more information, please visit the Dow Jones Indexes Web site at http://djindexes.com.
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