NEW YORK, March 17, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MUNCmedia announced today the appointment of Bradley H. Smith as Chief Marketing Officer.
Smith will be responsible for all aspects of the company's marketing strategy for their global media network, including branding, social media, public relations and product marketing. He will also be integral to MUNCmedia's sales and business development.
"The success of MUNCmedia is built on originality, innovation and determination," said Matthew Bird, CEO, MUNCmedia. "Bringing an effervescent, creative force like Bradley onto our corporate management team is going to propel MUNCmedia's brand and revenues. In addition to expanding the strength of our Retail Investor Targeting services, MUNCmedia is launching other new initiatives this year, and Bradley's depth in the Investor Relations and Public Relations industries will assure our success."
Smith has joined MUNCmedia from the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. where he was a Director of the NASDAQ Corporate Services Group for the past four years. Prior to NASDAQ OMX, Smith was the Director of Marketing and Communications at Shareholder.com, which was acquired by NASDAQ in 2006.
"MUNCmedia is fortunate to have Bradley join their senior team," said Ronald H. Gruner, founder and former CEO of Shareholder.com. "Bradley's marketing creativity, broad skill set and extraordinary work ethic was critical to Shareholder.com's consistent profitable growth and ultimate acquisition by NASDAQ." Smith joined Shareholder.com in 2000.
"Bradley is one of the most talented and creative new marketers I've had the pleasure to work with," said David Meerman Scott, marketing strategist and #1 bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR. "I worked very closely with Bradley to develop Shareholder.com's social media marketing initiatives. While I thought I'd teach Bradley a thing or two about marketing, it ended up being more the other way around -- I was learning from a master marketer. In fact, the programs developed were so successful that I featured them in my international bestseller. Now Bradley's ideas are seen as a benchmark of excellence and are studied by marketers in 24 languages around the world."
Before NASDAQ, Smith was a Director of Marketing Communications at InfiMed, Inc., a Syracuse, NY based medical device company. He has served on advisory boards and is a member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), a graduate of Potsdam College and studied advertising and design at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts.
Bradley can be reached at bradley.smith@muncmedia.com and 917/680-6011. Twitter @BHSMITH
ABOUT MUNCMEDIA
MUNCmedia is the first Information Media Network and world leader in web-based Retail Investor Targeting Solutions. We provide online corporate communications, research and media solution to companies worldwide.
From advanced press release targeting to corporate video PR content, MUNCmedia helps companies deliver targeted and scalable messages to the right audience in real-time. Hundreds of companies, IR and PR agencies, stock exchanges and integrated newswires rely on MUNCmedia services to deliver news messages to the retail financial community every day.
MUNCmedia was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY with a regional office in Bellevue, WA. We currently service over 300 direct public company issuers, 40 IR agency partners and have a fully integrated partnership with GlobeNewswire, a NASDAQ OMX Company.