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Michael Adair Joins Glam Media as Vice President of Corporate Development and Finance

2008-07-23 05:00:00

Michael Adair Joins Glam Media as Vice President of Corporate Development and Finance

    Head of Google's North America Finance Team Joins Glam to Lead

Strategic Growth and M&A



    SILICON VALEY, Calif. and NEW YORK, July 23 /EMWNews/ -- Glam Media,

Inc., (http://www.GlamMedia.com), the pioneer of vertical content networks and

number one in reach for women online, today announced that Michael Adair,

former head of sales finance for Google North America, will join the

company as Vice President of Corporate Development and Finance. In this

newly created position, Adair will be responsible for the evaluation and

execution of Glam Media's strategic investments, corporate development and

corporate finance. The appointment is part of Glam's growing global and

corporate development initiatives. In May 2008, Glam appointed Bruce Jaffe,

former corporate vice president for corporate development at Microsoft, to

Glam's advisory board to help build the strategy corporate development.







    While at Google, Adair directed Google's North American sales finance

team and worked closely with Google's president of advertising and

commerce. Adair helped lead the team that managed strategic acquisitions

responsible for over $3.5 billion in revenue, including dMarc, YouTube and

DoubleClick. Adair's group provided critical financial reporting and

analytics across many platforms, including branded and offline advertising.

Prior to joining Google, Michael worked as an investment banker at Lehman

Brothers, where he served in their Communications and Media Group. Adair

also spent several years working in sales, marketing and management at

Computational Systems, a technology start-up, now a division of Emerson

Electric. Adair holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from

the United States Merchant Marine Academy.



    "I am excited to join Glam Media's executive team as we leverage Glam's

vertical network model that it is ripe for expansion," said Michael Adair.

"Glam's focus on creating the right network model for display advertising

makes them one of the most existing companies in media today."



    "We are pleased to have Michael Adair join Glam at a time of such rapid

growth of the company," said Samir Arora, chairman and CEO, Glam Media.

"With his deep operational and corporate development experience from

Google, the number one media company, Adair is a strategic resource that

will help Glam Media expand its position as the leading vertical network

for brand advertisers."



    Glam Media connects advertisers with a global publisher network of more

than 640 fashion, living and entertainment Web sites and is number one in

reach for women online, with more 77 million unique users worldwide. Today,

Glam Media's vertical content network is composed of five channels,

including: Style, Living, Entertainment, Health and Family.



    About Glam Media



    Glam Media is the fastest growing Top 20 Media Company in the U.S. With

a total reach of 41 million unique monthly visitors in the U.S. (comScore

Media Metrix) and 77 million global uniques, Glam Media provides a

compelling mix of fresh, original content created in-house, on its owned &

operated web sites and the carefully curated Glam Publishing Network of

more than 640 popular and influential lifestyle Web sites, blogs and

magazines. For premium national brand advertisers, Glam Media offers an

unprecedented array of reach and targeting that are singularly attractive

to both upscale and aspirational consumers. Glam Media is backed by Hubert

Burda Media, GLG Partners, Accel Partners, DAG Ventures, Draper Fisher

Jurvetson, Walden Venture Capital and Information Capital. Glam Media is

based in New York City and Brisbane, California.





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