Penton Media Names Elise Zealand as General Counsel

2/11/2008

NEW YORK (February 11, 2008) - Penton Media, Inc. today announced the appointment of Elise Zealand as general counsel for the company. Zealand joined Penton from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where she served as a senior associate. While at Gibson's New York office, her practice focused on the media and entertainment, publishing, and financial services industries, representing clients in a range of intellectual property matters. Zealand joined Penton on February 11th and will report to CEO John French. She will serve on Penton's Executive Committee and will be located in the company's New York office. Zealand replaces Robert Feinberg, who left the company to return to private practice.

Zealand's prior legal experience includes work as an associate at Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, LLP; Sullivan & Cromwell; and Cahill Gordon and Reindell LLP. She served as a law clerk to the U.S. District Court Judge William C. Conner, Senior District Judge, Southern District of New York.

Zealand received her bachelor's degree from Loyola College of Maryland and her law degree from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent Scholar, as well as the writing and research editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems.

She began her career as a reporter, working first for The Cumberland Times-News and later for The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin.

Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.


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