Aberdeen Group Announces the 2009 Chief Marketing Officer Summit Final Speaker Lineup

Cisco, Best Buy, Burt's Bees, Intuit, Aon, Wells Fargo and PetSmart Are Among the Companies Represented on the Agenda at Aberdeen's Annual Chief Marketing Officer Summit in San Francisco, September 9-10


BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - August 27, 2009) - Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), announces the final speaker lineup for the 2009 Aberdeen CMO Summit. This year's speakers hail from an extensive list of formidable players in the industry and each have an impressive marketing success story that led to their selection.

Confirmed presenters include:

eBay: Mike Linton, Former CMO of eBay and Best Buy, Columnist for Forbes Magazine

Cisco Systems: Ken Wirt, Vice President, Consumer Marketing

Best Buy: Matt Smith, Vice President, Marketing Services

Burt's Bees: Mike Indursky, CMO

Intuit: Scott Wilder, General Manager, Small Business Online Communities

Aon Corporation: David Cliche, Vice President, Global Interactive Marketing

Wells Fargo: Sylvia Reynolds, CMO

Match.com: Deepak Thomas, Head of Mobile Products

Symantec: Diane Beaudet, Senior Director, User Engagement, Consumer Business

Levi Strauss & Company: Megan O'Connor, Head of Digital Marketing

PetSmart: Erica Thompson, Vice President, Marketing

The CMO Summit is an annual two-day executive conference that brings together marketing leaders from around the globe to share insights, discuss strategies and engage with peers on the key challenges facing marketing organizations today.

"The CMO Summit showcases top executives who are deploying cutting edge technologies along with emerging strategies, business processes and performance metrics to not only increase revenues and cut costs in the near term, but also enhance their customer relationships on an ongoing basis," explains Jeff Zabin, Aberdeen Research Fellow and Summit host.

Supporting sponsors and partners include 5th Finger, Converseon, Harte-Hanks, Saepio, Zuberance, Fun & Joy at Work, the San Francisco Chapter of the American Marketing Association, and Taproot Foundation.

For more information on the event or to register to attend, please visit http://summits.aberdeen.com/index.php/cmo.html.

About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company

Aberdeen provides fact-based research and market intelligence that delivers demonstrable results. Having queried more than 30,000 companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is positioned to educate users to action: driving market awareness, creating demand, enabling sales, and delivering meaningful return-on-investment analysis. As the trusted advisor to the global technology markets, corporations turn to Aberdeen for insights that drive decisions.

As a Harte-Hanks Company, Aberdeen plays a key role of putting content in context for the global direct and targeted marketing company. Aberdeen's analytical and independent view of the "customer optimization" process of Harte-Hanks (Information - Opportunity - Insight - Engagement - Interaction) extends the client value and accentuates the strategic role Harte-Hanks brings to the market. For additional information, visit Aberdeen or call (617) 854-5200, or to learn more about Harte-Hanks, call (800) 456-9748.

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Contact Information: Media Contact: Jeff Zabin Aberdeen Harte-Hanks 617-854-5356 Jeff.zabin@aberdeen.com