Industry Veteran Peter Weedfald President of Ziff Davis Media

In the office.
And on the beach

The web magazine for top managers - who's promoted, who came, who left? And what to do when you're not in the office.

May 1, 2008, New York, USA - Peter Weedfald, technology industry veteran with over 25 years of experience, has been named President of Ziff Davis Media.

Mr. Weedfald is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Mr. Weedfald spent nine years at Ziff Davis Media in the 1980s, holding various senior Sales and Executive positions at PC Magazine, and other venerable titles. Mr. Weedfald served as SVP, CMO of Samsung Electronics North America as well as responsible for all sales, marketing, product management and advertising for their $3.5 billion U.S. based consumer electronics division; EVP Sales/COO of Bigfoot Interactive; EVP CMO & GM for Visual Appliances at ViewSonic Corporation; and SVP & Publisher at IDG's Computerworld. Most recently, Mr. Weedfald was SVP, CMO at electronics retailer Circuit City.

Mr. Weedfald is a Board member of the Boomer Esiason Foundation, he was the 2005 recipient of the IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) Communicator of the Year Leadership Award, a winner of the 2005 BRAG (Black Retail Action Group) Business Achievement Award and the recipient of the 2006 Guardian Angels Archangel Lifetime Leadership award. Mr. Weedfald was also recognized as one of the "Sweet 16" most influential people in video gaming by The Daily Stuff in 2005 and was a 2007 Frost & Sullivan Sales and Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.

Post to: