New Vice President of Product Joins Management Team at Dow Jones

James Becker to drive aggressive and innovative product strategy and development 


NEW YORK, April 21  /PRNewswire/ -- Dow Jones & Company today announced James Becker has joined the company as vice president of product management for the Business & Relationship Intelligence group.  Becker will lead an aggressive and innovative product strategy focused on next generation sales intelligence applications. Becker joins an executive team consisting of Tom Aley, managing director; Simon Bradstock, chief operating officer; Jeff Bruce, vice president of media services and Darr Aley, vice president of business development.

In the role of vice president of product management, Becker will be responsible for the product and commercial strategy to meet the aggressive growth goals of the organization. With an intense focus on customers, Becker will collaborate across Dow Jones to expand existing company and executive content collections and integrate Dow Jones patented technologies such as B2B social networking and web-extraction into a range of customer facing applications.

"Jimmy's experience and industry knowledge is deep and we are extremely pleased to have him join our executive team," stated Tom Aley, managing director of Dow Jones Business & Relationship Management.  "He has a proven track record for getting results by delivering innovative and highly differentiated products to market on time and on budget. Under his strong leadership, it will be quite exciting to see the results he delivers for the Business & Relationship Intelligence group."

Becker was a founding member of the OneSource Information Services executive team where he was responsible for global product development, content strategy and licensing.  Most recently, he served as the vice president of Hoovers at Dun & Bradstreet(R) where he led a successful turnaround of a $150 million business unit focused on B2B direct marketing solutions.  Becker is a graduate of Brown University and received his MBA from Yale University.

For more information about Dow Jones solutions for empowering the sales force, please visit http://www.solutions.dowjones.com/.

ABOUT DOW JONES

Dow Jones & Company is a News Corporation company (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; http://www.newscorp.com/). Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes; Dow Jones Business & Relationship Intelligence, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50 percent of SmartMoney and 33 percent of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to radio stations in the U.S.

ABOUT DOW JONES Business & Relationship Intelligence

Dow Jones Business & Relationship Intelligence provides leading customer intelligence solutions that enable organizations to identify and connect to the best business opportunities. The combination of next-generation technology with actionable information powers the performance of sales and research professionals and media organizations.

Dow Jones Business & Relationship Intelligence's award-winning solutions include the most up-to-date and accurate global intelligence on millions of companies, the executives who manage them and the relationships that link them. Integrating these tools and content behind your firewall - connecting vital internal and external customer information in context for salespeople - provides a single, complete view of a customer, further increasing your effectiveness. 

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