TechInsights Invests in Digital Media Technology and Development Resources

TechInsights, the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry's decision makers, today announced the creation of a Digital Media Development team led by Brent Pearson. Mr. Pearson's first step is to craft a technology roadmap for TechInsights' media business represented by the EE Times Network of online properties - notably, EE Times, TechOnline, Embedded, and the DesignLines. As well, Mr. Pearson is responsible to recruit and lead a software engineering team to execute upon this plan. "Our decision to bring Brent on board and invest heavily in web technology and resources for our media business, provides further evidence of TechInsights stated intent and continued evolution towards an online centric media play," stated Paul Miller, CEO of TechInsights. "We are extremely pleased that Brent shares this vision and enthusiasm for the future growth of our media business. These efforts elevate the importance and related investment in technology and platforms that TechInsights makes on a par with our world class content and delivery teams."

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Mr. Pearson brings twelve years of software engineering and web development expertise and management skills to TechInsights. Most recently, Mr. Pearson was Director, Technology for Carat, a full service digital media company that provides technology consulting services to Fortune 1000 companies. Previous to this, Mr. Pearson was the Director of Development for TradePoint Solutions, a software as a service provider in the consumer packaged goods industry. As well, Mr. Pearson cofounded his own company, Lawdex, focused on creating and sharing legal documentation and communication electronically.

About TechInsights (http://www.techinsights.com/)

TechInsights is the global leader in media, marketing, and professional services for the electronics industry. We deliver results for the "Creators of Technology" - those key influencers and decision makers involved in the definition, development, protection, and commercialization of technology and related intellectual property. More than 1.1 million engineering professionals engage with our online brands - EE Times, TechOnline, DesignLines, and Embedded.com - monthly across Europe, India, Japan, Taiwan, mainland China and North America. As well, the technology community comes to our face-to-face events - the Embedded Systems Conferences and Intellectual Property Symposia - to share, learn, discuss, and advance the critical issues and challenges facing the electronics industry. Finally, for those clients with a specific technology, or intellectual property objective we engage on a custom basis through our TechInsights Professional Services team - Portelligent, Sanguine Microelectronics, and Semiconductor Insights.

TechInsights is a division of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $1.6B.

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