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Questex Appoints Gideon Dean, EVP, Travel Media GroupQuestex Appoints Gideon Dean, EVP, Travel Media Group
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Questex Appoints Gideon Dean, EVP, Travel Media Group
NEWTON, Mass., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Questex Media Group, Inc., a global, diversified business-to-business media company announced today it has named Gideon Dean, a 25-year travel and hospitality industry veteran, its Executive Vice President, Travel Media Group, which includes Travel Agent, Luxury Travel Advisor, and Home-based Travel Agent magazines, Travel Agent University, TravelAgentCentral.com, the Premier Hotels & Resorts directory, Five Star Alliance and additional related digital media products.Dean joins Questex September 2 and will be based in Alexandria, Virginia.
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"The addition of Gideon to our senior management team demonstrates our continued commitment to serving the travel industry -- professionals, suppliers and consumers alike -- in new and innovative ways.Gideon brings a customer-focused vision, extensive hospitality and travel market knowledge and an impressive background in electronic distribution and internet marketing to the role, as well as a clear understanding of our clients' and customers' objectives and the know-how to best align our resources to serve them."Dean joins Questex from TIG Global, LLC, a provider of interactive marketing services for the hospitality and travel industry, where he was Senior Vice President of Global Hospitality Sales & Marketing.Before joining TIG Global, Dean operated in key sales and executive management roles over a ten-year career with Pegasus Solutions, one of the largest third-party marketing and reservation providers in the world.At Pegasus Solutions, he ran international operations from the London office before moving to the US to lead the worldwide sales, account management and service delivery functions for all Pegasus' products and services.Dean also has a background in hotel operations, including five years with Southern Sun Hotel Corporation in South Africa.He has also held management positions with Utell International and Reed Travel Group for six years.In addition to the appointment of Dean, Questex also announced the promotion of John McMahon to the position of Vice President -- Sales & Marketing/Group Publisher, and Ruthanne Terrero to the position of Vice President -- Content/Editorial Director, of the Questex Travel Media Group.
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McMahon and Terrero will report to Dean.