Another key post in Gannett's executive line-up has been filled. The company and its three business partners
announced today that
Mario Diez has been promoted to CEO of
quadrantONE. Based in New York, quadrantONE sells advertising on behalf of its partners: GCI, Tribune Co., the New York Times Co., and Hearst.
Diez has been senior vice president over sales since April. The CEO job had been vacant for 222 days, the period since former CEO
Andy Ellenthal's departure was first disclosed.
Diez' promotion is the second involving a high-profile vacancy. Monday, GCI
said it had hired Paul Saleh as chief financial officer, filling a job that had been vacant for 287 days.
Still to go: the chief digital officer's position, now vacant 224 days. Plus, the CEO's position -- assuming it's to be filled -- at Ripple6; that post has now been vacant more than 60 days.
I guess laying all those people off freed up some payroll.
ReplyDeleteYou got that right, 12:24 p.m.
ReplyDeleteMario Diez....another former Saridakis employee at PointRoll when he was a sales rep a few short years ago. Amazing!
ReplyDeleteAnother desperate move by Gannett. Mario Diez IS a disaster. Quadrant One is a joke.
ReplyDeleteMario is a great guy. Not like Tafler, more like Harvey and Shappy. As for that business... I am not so sure.
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ReplyDeleteDoes Gannett have a drug testing policy? Maybe that is a better way of phrasing my prior comment that you deleted Jim.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Gannett asks everyone to take drug tests all the time, but I have heard that they selectively choose not to have some people in leadership positions take these tests because they are "hard to recruit" positions.
I've worked with Diez for years, he is a great guy and will be a great CEO, congrats DIEZ!
ReplyDeleteAll you haters should think this through.
ReplyDeleteHere's a guy who's had nothing but success at every stop, including when he was kicking qO's butt at Centro, and now he's leading your team. This, boys and girls, is the definition of good news.
Do you really think that the ownership would have given Mario this opportunity if he hadn't been just killing it since he got there? Think, people....