August 10, 2009 11:08 AM Eastern Time 

Business Wire Names Steve Guidi Regional Sales Manager, San Diego

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Steve Guidi, a 14-year sales and business development professional of the information technology, consulting and services industry, has joined Business Wire as the Regional Sales Manager in San Diego. He will be responsible for all sales operations in the region.

Having worked for organizations focused in the high technology, biotech, consumer packaged goods, and financial services industry, Steve has built lasting partnerships with clients across multiple business verticals in the San Diego area.

"Coupled with his drive and enthusiasm, Steve’s deep experience in building strong relationships and delivering business solutions makes him an asset to the region as well as to our organization", said Morrissey Perfetti, Regional Vice President, Business Wire.

Steve joins Business Wire from TowerGroup, a division of MasterCard Worldwide. Previously, he served in sales and sales management roles with Yankee Group, AMR, and Rand North America, a Dassault Systemes company.

Steve earned his bachelor’s degree from CSU in Fullerton. He, his wife Christine, and their niece, Mary Jane, live in Victoria Grove.

About Business Wire

Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is utilized by tens of thousands of member companies and organizations worldwide to functionally enhance and communicate investor relations and public relations content to target audiences. As a recognized disclosure service in the United States, Canada and a dozen European countries, Business Wire facilitates the simultaneous flow of market-moving press releases from corporations to financial markets and their audiences, including regulatory authorities, media, investors, financial information systems and consumer news services. Business Wire also handles XBRL tagging, document formatting and regulatory filing into EDGAR, SEDAR, FSA and other systems.

Communications professionals turn to Business Wire to optimize and issue press releases, photos and multimedia to news organizations, journalists, trade publications, search engines, and individuals, with full-text posting to web sites, online services and databases. A range of distribution options enables members to target by geography, industry, news theme and audience demographics.

Founded in 1961, Business Wire has dual headquarters in San Francisco and New York, with 30 bureaus in cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Paris, Frankfurt, London, Brussels, Tokyo, Toronto and Sydney and reciprocal offices throughout the world. Business Wire's patented NX data platform supports XML, XHTML and XBRL code that enhances news release interactivity, social media sharing and search engine optimization. More information about Business Wire and its services is located on its website at www.BusinessWire.com.

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