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SCOTT
CHAPPELL,
37, has been a Director of BIA Digital Partners since 2002 and is
also a member of the General Partner. Scott leads investments in
private media and communications companies. He serves or has previously
served on the board of directors of HCPro, Hoffman Media, Lifestyle
Media, Marquee Cinemas, and NTC Communications. Previously, Scott
worked at Thomas Weisel Partners as a banker in the Media and Telecommunications
Group and at Wachovia Securities in the High Yield and Private Placement
Groups. He began his career at Andersen Consulting. Scott has a
BBA with honors from the University of Georgia and an MBA with honors
from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
ANDY
WEBER,
51, is president and CEO of the Farm Journal Media, the country's
leading agricultural media company with print, television, radio,
newsletter, database, internet and live event properties and services.
At Farm Journal, Mr. Weber has successfully
integrated the company's leading agricultural media brands including
flagship Farm Journal magazine, "The Magazine of American Agriculture",
and five other magazines produced in Philadelphia headquarters;
AgDay and Weekend Marketplace television programs and the Farm Journal
Radio Network produced at NBC affiliate WNDU in Southbend Indiana;
the Pro Farmer family of newsletters in Iowa, and agriculture's
leading Internet destination, AgWeb.com, also in Indiana.
Immediately prior to Farm Journal, Mr. Weber
was executive vice president of Cahners Business Information, a
Reed Elsevier Company. At Cahners, he successfully integrated three
formerly competitive entities into a cohesive division of 40 industrial
related magazine franchises with revenue of over $200 million.
Prior to Cahners, he was senior vice president
of Chilton Company, a Walt Disney/ABC company. At Chilton, he oversaw
a division of 15 industrial magazines and related trade shows, spearhead
Chilton's Internet effort and ran Chilton's list marketing prior
to helping Disney sell Chilton to Reed Elsevier.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Weber served
as President of three standalone subsidiaries of the Medical Economics
Company, a division of global business information giant, Thomson
Corporation.
Mr. Weber spent the first eight years of
his career in agricultural media, first in sales for Agri Marketing
magazine, then in sales and publishing management for Vance Publishing's
livestock division.
Educated at the University of Wisconsin
in agricultural journalism, he also pursued educational tracks in
marketing communications and business. Mr. Weber is a member of
the board of trustees of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's
Greater Delaware Valley Chapter and serves on the board of directors
of the American Business Media association . He's an avid golfer,
outdoorsman and traveler. Mr. Weber and his wife have three daughters
and reside in suburban Philadelphia where they are active in the
local community.
Robert Williford of Emergency Medicine Practice has over 30 years experience building and operating newsletter companies for large companies such as Medical Economics and as an entrepreneur. He was President of the Specialized Information Publishers Association (formerly the Newsletter and Electronic Publishers Association) in 2001. Williford is a degreed accountant and lives in Atlanta, GA.
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