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Harte-Hanks Announces Promotion of Company Veteran Don Aicklen to Lead National Markets Organization
SAN ANTONIO-(Business Wire)-August 28, 2008 - Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE:HHS) today announced that Don Aicklen has been promoted to corporate Vice President, with responsibility for leading the company’s National Markets Organization within its Direct Marketing segment.
In his 27-year tenure with the company Aicklen has served in a variety of general management, sales management and national sales leadership roles. He most recently served as Group Managing Director for the company’s Select Markets vertical.
Gary Skidmore, President of Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing, said, "Don is well-respected for his leadership abilities and deep knowledge of the markets we serve. He has been instrumental in launching new vertical market segments in automotive, government, and consumer brands, along with recently supporting our European sales team.
We are very excited to have Don lead our national markets organization and are confident that he will continue to make significant contributions to our company and to our clients worldwide."
As a result of Aicklen’s promotion Harte-Hanks has also announced new leadership for the Select Markets organization that Aicklen had been leading.
Brent Bush has been named Managing Director of the Consumer Brands and Automotive portion of the Select Markets organization. Bush is a six-year veteran of Harte-Hanks with more than 25 years of management and executive leadership experience.
Bush’s diverse work experience includes executive positions with some of the world’s most respected companies, including Federal Express, Oracle and Teletech. During his career, he has managed large sales organizations, operations, marketing and all facets of managing large and small companies.
Gus Kostakis has been named Managing Director of the Public Sector portion of the Select Markets organization. In his four years with Harte-Hanks, Kostakis has been instrumental in expanding relationships with government entities and non-profit organizations, fulfilling their marketing needs.
Kostakis has more than 20 years of marketing experience across all media platforms in both the b-to-c and b-to-b markets and has represented a variety of private and public sector clients.
Additionally the company has made a leadership promotion within one of its longest standing verticals, the Financial Markets group. Susan Wilson has been named Managing Director for Financial Markets at Harte-Hanks. As a senior leader, she has been with Harte-Hanks since 2005 and was most recently Senior Vice President of the company’s Financial Markets group. She has been responsible for key client relationships, leading new business development engagements at senior levels.
Wilson brings deep marketing and financial services expertise after having served such firms as ChoicePoint, Experian and RR Donnelley.
About Harte-Hanks:
Harte-Hanks® is a worldwide, direct and targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to local, regional, national and international consumer and business-to-business marketers. Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing improves return on its clients' marketing investment by increasing their prospect and customer value through solutions and services organized around five groupings of integrated activities: Information (data collection/management) — Opportunity (data access/utilization) — Insight (data analysis/interpretation) — Engagement (program and campaign creation and development) — Interaction (program execution). Harte-Hanks Shoppers is North America's largest owner, operator and distributor of shopper publications, with shoppers that are zoned into more than 1,000 separate editions with more than 12.5 million circulation each week in California and Florida. PennySaverUSA.com™, the Web site of Harte-Hanks Shoppers, displays the ads published in the print versions of the PennySaverUSA.com and TheFlyer.com publications, and is a leader in the aggregation of online classified ads from free community papers and shoppers across the country.
For more information, contact: Doug Shepard at 210-829-9120 or e-mail at doug_shepard@harte-hanks.com.
This release and other information about Harte-Hanks can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.harte-hanks.com.
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