Paul Kessinger

Paul Kessinger , Senior VP , Marketing , New Century NetworkArt Raymond , Systems Director , Albany Times Union

Paul KessingerSenior VP , MarketingNew Century Network

This year's debaters were the aforementioned Daniels (the founder of NandO.Net and the former executive editor of the News & Observer in Raleigh, NC, Daniels now has his fingers in many multimedia pies, including the chairmanship of the software development firm KOZ and the chairmanship of the content firm TotalSports) and Paul Kessinger, senior vice president of marketing for the New Century Network, the consortium of newspaper web sites.
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The idea was that Daniels - who in 1995 and 1996 had championed the notion that newspapers needed to do new media on their own - and Kessinger - who represented the biggest newspaper new media affiliation organization - would slug it out.
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Daniels would give all these reasons why newspapers didn't need any help and Kessinger would make the case for papers to join up with NCN.
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I should have known that I wasn't going to achieve the desired effect when Kessinger sent me e-mail saying, "My only worry about this event is whether two people can really fill an hour and a half on what is - at first blush - a pretty uncontroversial topic.We could move on to Marv Albert jokes, I suppose."

Well, we filled the 90 minutes without any toupee or biting references, but it didn't quite end up the way I envisioned.

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Kessinger then went on to illustrate the high-quality aspects of New Century Network and I vainly attempted to stir up some controversy, to no avail.

The in-house net.The next session was called "Intranet-based Solutions."Since I had dreamed up this idea in April, it wasn't likely to provide me with quite as many surprises.

Paul Kessinger Joins as VP - Sales & Marketing

WESTPORT, Conn. (October 21, 1999) - Internet marketing services company iGain.com (www.iGain.com) today announced the appointment of promotion industry veterans Patrick B. Harris as President and Paul Kessinger as Vice President, Sales and Marketing.
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Paul Kessinger was Vice President/Marketing of Lamaze Publishing Co., Darien, Conn., which was recently acquired by Internet women's network iVillage.Prior to that, he was Sr. Vice President, Marketing and Affiliate Relations for New Century Network, an online publishing consortium owned by the nation's nine largest newspaper groups and located in New York.

Kessinger, 48, also held a number of marketing positions, including Vice President/Marketing and Vice President/New Ventures, at Actmedia, a leading in-store marketing firm that was acquired by News Corp.A resident of Wilton, he is a graduate of Stanford University and also holds MBA and MS degrees from Columbia University.

"We are pleased to have these two accomplished marketing executives join iGain.com.They have a unique combination of consumer promotion, Internet and business-to-business marketing experience that will help iGain.com develop and grow its loyalty marketing network," said iGain.com Chairman Marshall Harrison.