MediaWhiz Hires New Chief Information Officer

MediaWhiz (http://www.mediawhiz.com/), a leading results-driven online advertising company offering Lead Generation, Email Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Display Advertising, and Search Marketing services, strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Sal Guido to the post of Chief Information Officer in its New York office.

As CIO, Guido will run the IT infrastructure of MediaWhiz. His role includes implementing strategies to evolve MediaWhiz platforms and infrastructure to align with the Company's strategic growth plans. He is also responsible for overseeing application development across all MediaWhiz technology groups.

Guido's technology career spans over twenty years. His most recent success was as Senior Vice President of Technology at Miva, an online media and advertising network company in North America and Europe. While at Miva, Guido helped the company architect a platform consolidation solution that dramatically improved efficiencies and scalability. Guido also worked with the board of directors, senior management, and the global business units to collaborate on Miva's strategic requirements to develop business justifications and technology strategy to meet revenue and cost control goals.

Guido also served as the Director of Enterprise Computing at Tyco International where he managed an annual operating budget of $115 million, and built the business justification model that was presented to Tyco's Board of Directors for the consolidation of 260 data centers into 8 regional data centers. Prior to that, Guido served as CTO at New Media Technology, and VP of Infrastructure at Viacom International.

"We're very excited to welcome Sal to the MediaWhiz team," said Jonathan Shapiro, CEO of MediaWhiz. "Sal's previous senior technology management experience and proven track record will enable us to keep our online advertising technology solutions well ahead of the competition, which will be a huge benefit to our clients."

Sal Guido adds, "MediaWhiz has grown rapidly into a leading full service online advertising company ... one that I am thrilled to be involved with. I'm particularly excited to be a part of a company with such an innovative technology culture and a suite of products that I can help take to the next level to ensure the company remains a leader in the space."

About MediaWhiz

Founded in 2001, MediaWhiz has grown steadily to become a leader in the online advertising space. MediaWhiz provides its clients with five results-driven online advertising services: Lead Generation, Email Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Display Advertising, and Search Marketing. Over 3,000 advertisers across dozens of verticals leverage the innovative solutions and online advertising expertise of MediaWhiz to improve their online advertising results. The MediaWhiz advertising network consists of over 30,000 top online publishers, who leverage MediaWhiz to maximize the profitability of their Web traffic.

MediaWhiz has approximately 140 employees between offices in New York (corporate headquarters), Atlanta and Ft. Lauderdale.

Learn more at http://www.mediawhiz.com/, or call 888-866-WHIZ.

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