New Brunswick, NJ – September 13, 2012 – Connotate, Inc., the leading provider of solutions that help organizations automate data collection from the Web, today announced that Tony Uphoff and Scott Schulman have joined the Connotate Strategic Advisory Board.

• Tony Uphoff is a uniquely accomplished operating executive with an unparalleled track record of building, growing and transforming media and marketing businesses. He has been a leader in media innovation and transformation for the last 20 years. He was most recently CEO of UBM TechWeb where he led the transformation of a declining $125 million print-centric business into a fast-growing $225 million dollar digital media, live event and marketing services powerhouse..
• Scott Schulman has 13 years of experience in senior leadership positions at Dow Jones, having served as president of corporate markets, president of financial information services and chief strategy officer for the company. He brings special expertise in understanding how information products drive business decisions at leading global companies..

“We welcome the addition of Tony and Scott – two forward-looking industry experts who are eager to share their cumulative knowledge as we continue to shape a winning strategy for growth,” said Keith Cooper, CEO of Connotate. “Their impressive careers collectively represent several decades of progressive leadership in digital media and financial information services, and we intend to fully capitalize on the contributions they will be making in their advisory roles.”

As a well-known leader in providing highly scalable Web data monitoring and gathering solutions for news and financial information providers, Connotate is also gaining impressive traction in other verticals with compelling use cases in competitive intelligence, financial intelligence, pricing intelligence, credentialing, background check and market research.

About Connotate

For organizations in which content and data are vital to success, Connotate is the Web collection company that puts the power of Web data monitoring and collection into the hands of the business user. Connotate delivers the scalability, reliability and resiliency necessary to drive strategic value from dynamic, Web sources.  With benefits ranging from increased productivity, competitive advantages and dramatic operational cost savings, Connotate’s growing customer list includes global businesses such as McGraw-Hill, Associated Press and Thomson Reuters. Connotate has been named a KMWorld “Trend-Setting Product” for the past seven years. Connotate announced the acquisition of Fetch Technologies in March 2012. For more information, please visit http://www.connotate.com.

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Gina Cerami
Connotate
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Heather Fitzsimmons
Mindshare PR    
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